Traffickers are drawn to natural disasters because they know children are separated from their parents and wander the streets along with thousands of other people who are suddenly homeless. Those who would normally stop them—law enforcement, military, and childcare workers—are otherwise occupied with disaster relief.

Child trafficking has always been a huge problem in Nepal, but "traffickers are becoming even more active and are trafficking people by offering help," says Bhuvan Devkota, president of New Light Nepal, an anti-trafficking ministry based in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.

"When a disaster occurs, child traffickers can operate right in broad daylight and most people won't even know they're there," adds Diana Scimone, president of the US-based Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking, which partners with New Light Nepal to offer child trafficking prevention programs throughout Nepal. "Traffickers even disguise themselves as aid workers and claim they're 'rescuing' children. In the midst of a disaster, who is going to stop them and ask for credentials?"

When the tsunami tore through Asia in December 2004, traffickers were right there within 24 hours picking up children, often under the guise of helping them. The same thing happened when an earthquake ravaged Haiti in January 2010. "Traffickers swooped in to take kids, often in wheelbarrows right in the open," Scimone says.

Devkota issued a call for Christians to pray to expose what traffickers are doing and to protect innocent children.

Prayer can stop human traffickers in their tracks, says Nicholas Canuso, director of the National Weekend of Prayer to End Slavery and Trafficking. "Law enforcement and abolitionists throughout the globe have witnessed a direct impact on efforts to end human trafficking when strategic prayer is implemented," he says. "Prayer is a powerful partnership of agreement with God's heart for justice."

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