The New Human Trafficking Abolitionists
Modern Slavery:
Human traffickers steal the lives
of the vulnerable every day
in America
Slavery still exists. Human traffickers use fraud, manipulation, coercion, and violence to exploit vulnerable people into unpaid work in both legitimate and illegal businesses or for personal use or gain.
Anyone can be vulnerable to human trafficking for many reasons at various times in their lives. Youth, travel, drug addiction, flight from war, and poverty all create vulnerabilities, and all of us have been young or taken a trip, whether or not we have faced any extreme circumstances, like war or addiction, which are common today.
Much of the world lives in such abject poverty that it becomes easy to understand how the supply of victims is growing, but many victims also come from the U.S., which is economically better off than many nations. Yet we have huge problems with child abduction, runaways, and severe drug addictions that lead people to do anything--even sell their children--for their substances of choice.
The problem is demand. Many people have demand for and pay for sex services or for free labor from adults and children enslaved for the benefit of their traffickers, who control their lives. Because the U.S. has resources to obtain these illegal slave services, we have become a destination country from nations in poverty and at war or from nations where slavery has never been eradicated.
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We are a new 501(c)3 public charity created to strengthen, help heal, and empower victims of human trafficking so they can emerge from the shadows and stand on their own. Many have no way to make this transition without help and are trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of abuse. Texas is at the crossroads of domestic and international human trafficking trade, so we plan to start our work here.
We are not law enforcers. We cannot stop demand, but by giving the trafficked a chance for a better life--a path forward--we can stem supply, while contributing to construction of a better world. Please help us get started by donating. We need funds for emergency medical care, drug treatment, counseling, temporary lodging, clothing, food, transportation, and operational costs. No one is paid to work here. We are an entirely volunteer charity, although we may purchase services necessary to meet needs of victims.
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We plan to start our work in Texas, which is a human trafficking crossroads. The video below is a human trafficking training film produced by the Texas Attorney General's office in 2017.
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