Anti-Human Trafficking
It’s estimated that 600,000-800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders every year, and that 200,000 U.S. citizens are trafficked within the States alone. About 20% of all trafficking victims are children. Supporting projects that prevent, rescue, and rehabilitate victims of trafficking is of utmost importance.
Passionate about Fighting Human Trafficking?
Check out these ways you can #EngageInGood at home, or see our new Hope to Belong initiative. Or, take a look at our HOPE model below for more information about our fight against human trafficking.
doTERRA Healing Hands HOPE Model
The dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation has a comprehensive framework to fight against human trafficking: the HOPE model. It includes prevention, rescue, and aftercare.
Prevention
Each one of us can prevent human trafficking in our communities through education and protecting our most vulnerable.
Rescue
Join us in supporting task forces, law enforcement, and trained experts who have dedicated their lives to human trafficking rescue operations.
Aftercare
Those who have been trafficked need safe and comprehensive trauma-informed care. Join us in supporting those who are on their journey to self-sufficiency.
See the stories below for examples of how we’ve brought HOPE by supporting Anti-Human Trafficking projects around the world.
dōTERRA Healing Hands Art Center
Rescuing children from sex trafficking is only half the battle. Caring for survivors is the other half. Rapha International works to help survivors reclaim lost childhoods and prepare for the future with safe and loving aftercare campuses.
The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation and Wellness Advocate Rebecca Hintze together donated to Rapha International and completed the doTERRA Healing Hands Art Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Along with funding the construction of the art center, the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation supported the interior design and curriculum training.
This facility uses art therapy to help survivors express themselves, find their voice, and release the pain they endured. Painted on the wall is a quote that every girl sees each time she enters the art center: “Art Is the Daughter of Freedom.” With help, each of these rescued girls has the chance to live a life of freedom.
Free for Life
In areas of extreme poverty, a false job offer or fraudulent marriage is all it takes to convince someone to travel away from his or her village and leave behind networks of support. With low rates of female literacy and employment, opportunities are rare, and early marriages remain common. These factors set the stage of vulnerability; however, it is the open border between India and Nepal that presents fertile ground for the trafficking of women and girls between the two countries. Over 15,000 women and girls are trafficked across this border and into India’s sex trade each year.
Free for Life and their border monitoring station serve as the front line in rescuing and restoring these women. Free for Life works to identify and intervene on behalf of victims of trafficking—as well as those who are at-risk—through educational materials and staff members who are trained to identify potential trafficking situations.
Wellness Advocate Gabrielle Thompson saw the need and reached out to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation, which matched the money she raised together with Free for Life in order to support the interception and rescue of human trafficking victims in India.
Elora Road Christian Fellowship
Many organizations work diligently to rescue victims of human trafficking; however, there can be few options for immediate and safe shelter. The Elora House, under the umbrella of the Elora Road Christian Fellowship, provides short-term housing and support to survivors of sexual violence in Ontario, Canada.
Spearheading the creation of this haven—after seeing the need—Wellness Advocate Luisa Krause has seen her hopes and plans become a reality. After securing funds, Luisa collaborated with the dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation to turn a space into a home, including furniture, kitchen items, equipment, and more.
“We were able to create a space that doesn’t feel patched together with worn-out items, but rather a space that speaks to the value of each survivor who walks through our doors.”—Lauren McLaren, program director
Greenlight Operation
It’s easy to pretend that human trafficking doesn’t happen in your town, but the numbers say that it does. Greenlight Operation refuses to turn a blind eye. The organization has created large-scale impact by mobilizing communities and individuals to act. Afterward, they help survivors to heal.
When Wellness Advocate Anna Knaub was introduced to Greenlight Operation, she knew she needed to do something. There are an estimated 40 million victims of human trafficking worldwide. A heartbreaking 99% of those individuals aren’t rescued. Anna decided to enlist the help of the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation in a collaborative effort to open Greenlight Operation’s first long-term restoration home in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The home is expected to open in 2020 and will provide a safe place for survivors to heal.
The doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation helped Rapha International establish an art therapy center in Thailand for girls who have been rescued from sex trafficking.
Society doesn’t want to see that there are victims of sex trafficking around them. We were around them. I was there.
In this special podcast episode, we take a look at the fight against human trafficking. We talk with a survivor of human trafficking about her experience, her escape, and what advice she has. We also sit down with Ashlie Bryant founder of 3 Strands Global to discuss how she became involved in the fight against human trafficking. Finally, we talk with David Stirling, doTERRA® Founding Executive, about how the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation works hard to contribute to the fight against human trafficking.
How do we mobilize these youth to really do something, and trust their voice?
In this podcast episode, we sit down with Ashlie Bryant, Co-founder, President, and CEO of 3Strands Global to discuss the organization whose mission is to mobilize communities to combat human trafficking through prevention, education, and reintegration programs.
Trust has been robbed from them. Hope has been robbed from them. And they don't know who they can trust.
In this podcast episode, we sit down with Stephanie Freed from Rapha House a doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation partner that provides aftercare for children who have been rescued from slavery and sexual exploitation.
