What You Can Do

You are the difference for these girls between a life of sexual slavery and a life of freedom.

With your help, we can pave the path to freedom in a young person's life by providing a safe environment for healing, education and wholeness.

Learn how you can help create real and lasting change using the categories below.

Donate

Click here to donate online.

  • $30 provides monthly nigh-shelter care for a child of a prostituted woman
  • $100 provides monthly care for a woman or child in a Home of Hope
  • $90,000 helps provide a safe, permanent Home of Hope 

Host a fundraiser at your church or community center

Mail your donation to Project Rescue, P.O. Box 922 Springfield, MO 65801 USA 

Learn

Learn about Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery. Read our sexual slavery issue overview.

Sign up for the Project Rescue newsletter.

Subscribe to our Blog feed. 

Find out the latest news and information about sexual trafficking from the Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking (IAST); other forms of human trafficking at www.humantrafficking.org. Visit other partners in this work at World Hope, The Salvation Army, and World Relief.

Know what is happening in your State. Sign up for the U.S. Policy Alert Service through the Polaris Project and receive regular updates, maps, and alerts on legislative developments on trafficking in the United States.

Download or request the latest Trafficking in Persons Report from the US Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking. Go to www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2009/ or call 1(202) 312-9639.

Pray

Commit yourself to regular prayer for trafficking issues in the United States and around the world.

Set aside one lunch hour every week to fast and pray for victims of sex trafficking.

Organize your Sunday school class, bible study, or another group to pray regularly.

Host a prayer walk for victims of sex trafficking with this Interactive Prayer Guide.

Please pray for every woman and child being ministered to through the various outreaches of Project Rescue. Pray for their complete restoration in body, mind and spirit, and that they will experience the love and healing power of Jesus Christ.

Pray for Project Rescue personnel and our partners who work diligently on the front lines of the battle against sexual slavery. These individuals tirelessly protect and care for victims, and educate communities about trafficking. They work in dangerous situations every day, putting themselves in harm’s way to protect the vulnerable. Please pray for their spiritual, psychological, and physical strength and safety.

Pray that national leaders will rise up against slavery and trafficking in countries supplying and countries demanding victims of trafficking.

Pray for the children, women and men around the world who are vulnerable to trafficking because of their poverty and lack of opportunities.

Pray for traffickers and other facilitators of trafficking, that they would be convicted, repent, and stop their callous behavior.

Educate

Host a Project Rescue small group using our four-week study guide. Contact us for more information. 

Talk about human trafficking. Tell your friends, share with your pastor, and inform your family.

Feature Project Rescue at your missions convention, church, school, Bible study, or other community forum. Contact us for speaker suggestions and availability.

Provide anti-trafficking materials (books, pamphlets, flyers, dvds) at informational tables or booths. Materials are available at Project Rescue or HHS.

Post signs, posters and other help information in public places. Advertisements in train stations, airports, busses, libraries, rest stops, and gas stations with hotline and help information in multiple languages will help victims find their way to safety. Sample posters are available from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 1(888)3737-888.

Host a small group to learn more about the issue and discuss a way that your church/school/community can get involved. We can provide you with information and resources to accomplish this. Email projectrescueinfo@gmail.com for more info!

Preach a sermon about slavery, what the Bible says about it, the urgency to abolish slavery and trafficking, and the need to reaffirm the inherent, God-given dignity of human beings.

Introduce a book or movie on slavery and trafficking into your book club, Sunday school, or other gathering.

Write articles and/or letters of opinion for local papers; church, denominational, or other publications.

Speak on a form of slavery (sex, labor, servitude, etc) in a class at your local middle school, high school or college. Educating youth and young adults on these topics will not only curb demand through education, but will also raise up future abolitionists.

Serve

Organize an anti-trafficking group in your school or church committed to getting educated, educating others, and supporting organizations that work on trafficking issues.

Host an evening at your home to show your friends one of the films listed on our resources page. Talk about how the issue of human trafficking impacts you. Provide this list for further action.

Work with existing social service agencies to help survivors of sex trafficking. Survivors are often in desperate need of food, clothing, shelter, translators, medical attention, transportation, crisis counseling and other services.

Represent a client. Many victims of trafficking in the US need pro bono legal services to be certified as a victim of trafficking and apply for T-visas. Contact social service agencies in your area to see how you can help.

Combat Demand for victims of sex trafficking. Work in your community to seek the arrest of buyers of commercial sex, develop deterrent sex offender programs, encourage victim-centered law enforcement to punish perpetrators and protect victims.

Advocate

Ask your state legislators what they’ve done to stop sex trafficking in your state. If they don’t know, offer to provide information on what they can do. For more information, see the US Department of Justice Webpage on Slavery and Trafficking, and the Model State Law on Trafficking.

Find out if your state has an Anti-Trafficking Task Force. If not, suggest that one be formed. If so, find out how you can help. More information on state action is available at the Polaris Project.

Provide information to your legislators on how demand increases supply in your state. For information on how the sex industry (strip clubs, prostitution rings, pornography) increases demand for victims in your state, contact the Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking (IAST) or call (703) 159-5896.

Sponsor a Human Trafficking Awareness Month. An awareness month can be held with friends, at your office, or at your church. Click here to email a representative. We will connect with you to get you set up with materials for your awareness month.

Teach youth and young adults about the link between the sex industry and the sex trade. Stop the demand before it starts. Order the six-session curriculum for youth in grades 7, 8, and 9 from Adults Saving Kids and organize a viewing with church youth groups, scouts, etc. It creates awareness of the dangers of commercial sexual exploitation. Contact ahartman@adultssavingkids.org or call (612) 872-0684. Or download The Abolitionist Church Handbook developed by Not For Sale Campaign.

Report Trafficking

Learn how to identify victims of trafficking. Look for signs of trafficking. Listen for indications of trafficking. Victims are often hidden in plain view. 

If you have information or suspect that slavery or trafficking is happening near you, REPORT it to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Trafficking Information and Referral Hotline at 1(888)3737-888, or the U.S. Department of Justice Trafficking in Persons Complaint Line at 1(888)428-7581, or contact the FBI field office nearest you. Your call could save lives.

 
* This list is adapted and used with permission from World Hope International. Special thanks to Lisa Thompson and the Initiative Against Sexual Trafficking, Kevin Bales of Anti-Slavery International, the US Dept of Health and Human Services, the United Methodist Committee on Relief, the US Department of Justice, and Heidi Metcalf for many of the ideas in this document.