OUR MISSION WITH YOUR HELP
Your donation will help trafficked men, women, and children find hope and a way forward to a free, autonomous life
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We are a start-up nonprofit approved as a 501(C)3 public charity by the Internal Revenue Service, which means we are fully authorized to accept tax-deductible donations from the public.
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We are operated by a team of largely senior people with time to devote to the cause. What we lack is the money to make our vision a reality. As a nonprofit corporation, we have business expenses like any other organization, but the fact that we have no paid personnel helps us keep costs down. We have even developed our own Web site at no cost, but Web sites come with annual fees.
Volunteers of all nonprofits also typically are insured, and in our opinion having access to funds to cover these fundamental costs is essential. Your donations will be spent to meet our basic operational costs and to assist victims. We will minimize our business expenses, and we have no plans to rent office space or hire nonprofit personnel, unless we grow substantially and require a centralized location.
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Our first priority will always be to help victims of human trafficking.
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Without you, we can do nothing. If you will please note in your donation that you will cover charitable services and operating costs as needed to make us viable.
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Thank you!
Our mission is to provide charitable aid, including temporary shelter, food, clothing, emergency medical or dental care, psychological counseling (mental health or drug counseling as needed), transportation, interpretive services, English as a Second Language (ESL), and help navigating other governmental, charitable, and legal services available to them. Various great organizations provide awareness programs about this issue, and we support their work. No Texas-focused agency will be more supportive of all human trafficking victims directly without regard to age, race, gender, or ethnicity. We believe our communities and our state can rise and improve only if all people have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but we can do very little without your help.
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Special Needs of Trafficked Victims
Government sources have acknowledged that they offer little in the way of services geared specifically to the needs of human trafficking victims. To heal, anyone who has been captive, constantly monitored and surveilled, and subject to abuse needs a sense of safety and autonomy, yet many locales can only offer public sheltering for people with no means. Such environments simply heighten a victim's sense of fear and even re-expose them to the very vulnerabilities they seek to escape. We particularly would like adequate funding to provide temporary lodging and transportation that affords both security and autonomy, while these people try to find their way through the legal system, find any support systems, and recover.
Victims may have few or no possessions. Sexually exploited people frequently are jailed, while their traffickers go free and little is done to help them directly. Texas Tribune has published an extensive series on human trafficking. In 2016, they reported the case of a teenager, who ended up in jail even though she was not a prostitute. She had been sexually exploited and had no means of caring for herself and even owned no clothing, so Houston police put her in the Harris County jail so she could receive food, clothing, and shelter:
https://www.texastribune.org/2017/02/15/texas-sex-trafficked-teens-often-end-jail/
Our position is that no human trafficking victim should experience jail as the only option for meeting their most basic needs.
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Our Work
We will work with local, state, federal, and international law enforcement and with nongovernmental agencies to determine and verify each circumstance to ensure those served were manipulated or coerced into their circumstance, which is part of the definition of a trafficked person.
Each person is different in terms of the services they need, so Human Action volunteers will assess each circumstance and draw up a plan for helping meet their needs to whatever degree your generosity enables us to serve them. We are not an arm of law enforcement, but we always seek to gain information about people they recover from bondage. We will be a source of help and freedom for them. No person arrested for prostitution who has been coerced or manipulated into the trade will be considered a criminal unless they have been arrested for a violent crime or have themselves trafficked or otherwise endangered others.
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Unlike agencies that limit their services to one segment of the trafficked population, we desire to serve all elements of the trafficked population, including those victimized through labor, domestic bondage, sex trade, child labor, child sex trafficking, or any form of human trafficking. As a Texas-based organization, we will begin our work here. The need is great.
To ensure we are good stewards of your donations, we will coordinate with any other local organizations with a desire to work cooperatively with us to provide assistance, and we will then look for and bridge service gaps on an as-needed basis.
We will also use a percentage of your funds to operate the agency according to law, but the agency itself will work without pay. No one on the board receives a salary, although we reserve the right to hire people qualified to fulfill specific needs of those victims served. None of those agencies are allowed to have a personal or family relationship with any member of the agency's board or the agency as a whole.
Society can improve only if we stop stigmatizing victims and start thinking positively. We make no judgments about victims. Instead we offer solutions to help them build pathways to a better life.
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Operational Funding for our Charity
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Your donations will need to assist us with start-up and minimal operational costs in addition to victim donations. We will only be able to help with your funding. Our staff is made up of unpaid senior volunteers.
