NATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING HOTLINE
If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, please call 1-888-373-7888 or text “BeFree” to 233733
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
www.extremelove.com/donate/
We believe in the power of God’s love to save, heal and restore. Human Trafficking affects people of every nation, group and socioeconomic status. Everyday, men, women and children are trafficked for sex, labor and begging worldwide. Countless millions are crying out for rescue from poverty, oppression and bondage. Children around the globe are seeking advocates who will hear their cry. Extreme Love is committed to bringing God’s light into the darkness. You can be a part of the transformation of nations – one life at a time.
https://www.tamarcenter.org
Offering hope, healing and a new life to the bar girls in Pattaya, Thailand, Tamar Center was founded in 1999 and seeks to provide hope in a city full of red-light districts. It also provides healing through love, biblical principals, education and job opportunities for girls leaving the bars. Over the years, Tamar Center has grown larger which has enabled them to reach out to even more women. They currently have two centers in Pattaya as well as two newly opened centers in the north east of Thailand.
NightLight
https://nightlightinternational.com
USA & GLOBAL NGOs
Restoration House – Kansas City, KA
https://restorationhousekc.org
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City offers long-term, residential housing with faith-based restorative programs and services for adult women and minor girl survivors of human trafficking. We recently attended the ribbon cutting event for Restoration House’s new safe house, which will enable them to help more children than ever before.
Stop Trafficking Project® – Kansas
https://www.stoptraffickingproject.com
The Stop Trafficking Project® builds awareness, education, prevention, rescue, and restoration projects in the USA. They are actively and aggressively involved in working toward an innovative and collaborative effort to end domestic child sex trafficking (DMST) via their strategy called BeAlert®. The BeAlert® Strategy uses presentations to educate and empower students as well as caring adults and members of the professional community. We recently met their founder Russ Tuttle at a ribbon cutting event for Restoration House’s facilities renovation and new safe house opening.
KidSafe Foundation – Boca Raton, FL
https://kidsafefoundation.org
Since 2009, KidSafe Foundation has empowered over 60,000 children with personal safety education. Their programs teach children safety tools and skills that help them make safe and smart choices. We got connected to KidSafe while at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Cofounder Cherie Benjoseph came alongside in our Q&A to help address the problem of child sex trafficking in Florida.
Unlikely Heroes – Grapevine, TX
https://unlikelyheroes.com
Unlikely Heroes is an American 501 nonprofit organization that rescues, restores, and rehabilitates child victims of sex slavery around the world. I met the founder, Erica Greve, in 2012, and she started me, Christina, on my journey that led me to create this documentary.
Safe Harbor – Richmond, VA
https://safeharborshelter.com
At our screening at Richmond International Film Festival, we met Safe Harbor’s executive director, Cathy Easter. She joined us in our Q&A session and was able to relate what was happening in Southeast Asia to the local trafficking problems in Virginia. Safe Harbor provides counseling, safe houses, and court advocacy to domestic violence, sexual violence, and human trafficking survivors.
Polaris Project
https://polarisproject.org/the-typology-of-modern-slavery/
Polaris Project operates the human trafficking hotline in the United States. They are a great resource for anyone who wants to understand how sex and labor trafficking operates in our country. If you’d like more information on what trafficking looks like, and how to identify it, visit the link above.
A21 – Global
https://www.a21.org
A21 Campaign is one of the largest organizations in the world that is solely fighting human trafficking. They are a global 501 non-profit, non-governmental organization that works to fight human trafficking, including sexual exploitation & trafficking, forced slave labor, bonded labor, involuntary domestic servitude, and child soldiery.