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Empower Human Trafficking Survivors
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Without employment opportunities, 80% of survivors of human trafficking may be trafficked again.
There over 40 million people in slavery around the world and in the United States. Only 1% are ever rescued and 80% are re-trafficked. Traffickers use different methods to recruit victims. Most victims are lured away by promises of a false job because they are in poverty and in need of work. Once victims are rescued, if they do not have the means to find employment and a stable income, they can end up in a vicious cycle where they are trafficked again.
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Only 1% of slaves are ever rescued and 80% are re-trafficked.
Education and vocational training helps survivors maintain their freedom.
A21 rescues victims and seeks justice against their captors. They restore survivors and equip them to live independently. A21 works face to face with every person in their care, providing them with access to housing, medical treatment, counseling and services based on their needs. This project will specifically fund education and vocational training in Ukraine and Bulgaria for 1 year. Survivors will receive training in language, computer, resume and job interview, and beauty and life skills.
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Education and vocational training helps survivors maintain their freedom.
Your donation will impact generations as you set each person on a path to true freedom.
Provide survivors of human trafficking the necessary skills to reintegrate into their communities. An integral part of setting survivors up to thrive in life is helping them get the education or training for a skill that they would like to use after they leave A21's care. This aids them in becoming financially independent and breaking the cycle of poverty that leaves them susceptible to being trafficked. Join us in restoring the lives of these precious individuals.
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39%-Provide skills training
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29%-Room and board
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20%-Hire language teachers
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5%-Tools to begin employment
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5%-Budgeting classes
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2%-Processing fees
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Your donation will impact generations as you set each person on a path to true freedom.
Created our project
Sep 10
For Freedom!
Sep 10
Thank you all for caring enough to visit my campaign page! Having faced homelessness myself, I have a special place in my heart for the world's most vulnerable. Together we can provide victims who have been rescued from trafficking with training so they can begin a new vocation and continue on their path to freedom. Thank you for your donation!
Elisa Torres
Project owner
Collected our first 3 pledges
Sep 10
Funded 25% of goal
Sep 10
Woweeee 37% funded in 2 days
Sep 11
I am overwhelmed by all of the support for this project already in just 2 days! My heart is beaming with gratitude as I picture the beautiful, intelligent girls that will receive an education to begin a new vocation thanks to your generosity! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
Elisa Torres
Project owner
Funded 50% of goal
Sep 12
Funded 75% of goal
Sep 13
Funded 100% of goal
Sep 23
We did it!
Oct 1
Thank you everyone for your very generous contributions! We met this goal in 2 short weeks! I have just launched another fundraiser as there were more people who wanted to give. I had the opportunity to attend A21's gala last week where I met the country director for Ukraine. It was with GREAT JOY that I was able to tell her we had completed this fundraiser and she smiled from ear to ear! She shared with me many examples of the survivors she is working with. Their journey is long and hard, but these services make it possible for them to have a brighter future.
I can't thank you enough!
For Freedom,
Elisa
Elisa Torres
Project owner