Who We Are
Our Mission Statement
Shared Hope International exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis. We are leaders in a worldwide effort to prevent and eradicate sex trafficking and slavery through education and public awareness.
Since 1998, Shared Hope International has spent its energy on behalf of victims of one of the worst forms of bondage – sexual slavery. Official–speak for this crime is “sex trafficking,” but in a certain sense, that term sanitizes the deed. Speak to a victim, and you will not hear that she was “trafficked.” You will hear that she was traumatically raped and brutalized by someone whose sole purpose was to take away her personhood and convert her body into cash. You will hear her tell how men of every age and description act out their violent fantasies on her, and how she becomes both a joke and a criminal in the eyes of her community. Hear her story and it will be clear that she has no one in the world to be her defender.
Until Now.
We have seen her misery in countries around the globe, and we are determined to change the world for her, and to make it safe for her sisters through three action–oriented imperatives:
We are persistent in using every means possible to alert the vulnerable to dangers that accompany the culture of tolerance in which we live. Shared Hope partners with local organizations to offer victims of the sex trade safe shelter, therapy, spiritual and physical healing, education and vocational training. We are dedicated to transforming policy and legislation so the laws and practices of our society reflect real concern for just treatment for victims and for those that prey upon them.
It is difficult work, but we believe this is an issue very close to the heart of God. We strive to reflect His view of the preciousness of every person. We remind ourselves that it is always has been – and still is – about “one life at a time.”
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