In our May 2026 podcast, we are featuring Pastor Charles Thangalimodzi of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and Director of Hope Channel Malawi to discuss the possible vulnerability of faith-based organisations in light of human trafficking while Priscilla Rosario Garner, an American adoptive mother and multilingual educator, shares her shocking experience of discovering and independently investigating illegal adoptions through an orphanage, as shared in chapter 5 of the book.
The podcast will premiere on Sunday, 17th May 2026 on the Maxwell Matewere Books YouTube Channel at 2pm CET/8am EST.
In our first podcast, our guest, the Chief Executive Officer of the Malawi Human Rights Commission, confirmed reports of over 400 babies and children who were exposed to illegal adoption and human trafficking facilitated by highly organised criminals linked to powerful local and international players including public officials, duty bearers and family members.
Our guests in the second podcast, Pastor Thangalimodzi will share some insights and key lessons after reading, Human Trafficking Exposed while Priscilla, a mother who instead of choosing to walk away in silence, stood up for the truth and resolved to fight for the rights of birth parents and their vulnerable children as she shares her lived experience to raise awareness for other hoodwinked and prospective adoptive parents.
This podcast takes the audience beyond theory into the realities of men, women, and children ensnared in the web of human trafficking.
Through Priscilla’s testimony and Pastor Thangalimodzi’s insights, we learn how organised criminals take advantage of the ignorance in churches; leaving loopholes that make it easy to recruit families, subjecting them to illegal adoptions.
The podcast uncovers the mechanics of this criminal industry that subject innocent people in the church to forced labor, sexual exploitation, illegal organ harvesting, and worse: child trafficking under the guise of adoption.
This episode exposes the shocking reality of how families who are deceived by traffickers to adopt children and babies, suffer for many years through highly traumatic experience. These families are burdened with the heavy weight of emotions as they cannot live freely from interferences with daily life and decision-making for many years.
Read more about the realities in Human Trafficking Exposed written by Maxwell Matewere, which can be purchased through retailers worldwide, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Human Trafficking Exposed, draws on two decades of real-world experiences to explain how this crime operates, how victims are recruited, and why awareness matters. Silence enables exploitation. Education dismantles it.
Key Questions that Pastor Charles Thangalimodzi Will Discuss:
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- How does human trafficking criminals engage the church to recruit unsuspecting families who are exposed to illegal adoptions?
- Chapter 5 of the Human Trafficking Exposed book covers stories on the recruitment of children for illegal adoption. These children and babies are exposed to exploitation, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. As a Pastor, how do feel about all this and many other stories exposed in this book?
Questions We Asked Priscilla Rosario Garner:
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- Can you confirm that you adopted children in Malawi?
- Tell us the process you undertook to adopt the children?
- We have learned through the media that you later found yourself in legal conundrum, what happened?
- How has this situation affected you and your family?
- Knowing what you know now, what would you share with families considering going the same route?
