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Mission 21 shares the story of Andrea, one of the survivors they served during the organization's time in the Shared Hope Partners Program. Read Monday  and Wednesday's post to catch up on the rest of the Mission 21 story as they graduate from our Partners Program! Mission...

Mission 21 shares the story of Tanya, one of the survivors they served during the organization's time in the Shared Hope Partners Program. Read Monday  and Wednesday's post to catch up on the rest of the Mission 21 story as they graduate from our Partners Program! Client...

This week we are interviewing Stephanie Holt, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Mission 21, one of the organizations that is graduating from our Partners Program! Read Monday's post and watch for the last post on Friday featuring the rest of the Mission 21 story! What was your favorite part about being a Shared...

Every year Shared Hope works in partnership with domestic and international partners, giving them grants to fund their direct service work with survivors and offer them technical support. This year we are graduating 3 organizations from our grant program and want to share with you their journeys! This week we...

Karen Lambie felt driven to do something to "give back" to society after retiring from teaching. Her online research into children's rights issues brought her across the sex trafficking of children. Like so many of the people in our audiences, she was shocked to discover its rampancy in the United States and...

The story of one’s man impact on multiple generations Burnett Family photo in 1957. (Their fifth child arrived in 1961) Supper wasn’t a hurried affair when Malcolm Burnett was growing up in the small town of Camas, Washington. It was a family time—a time for the adults...

Chifonne, one of our Ambassadors of Hope shares her story!  When I first heard about sex trafficking, I was probably 12 years old. It was the very early days of Shared Hope, not long after Linda Smith had been to India, and she shared at a local event where my mom...

“We have to shift from panicking mode to planning mode.” These wise words, by the Ambassador, Permanent Observer of Italy to the OAS, Marilina Armellin, were spoken at a trafficking event hosted by the Organization of American States (OAS) which Shared Hope attended this week. During the event we...

My daughter was 10 the first time I heard that children were being bought and sold for sex in my community. These weren’t foreign children born in a foreign country, they were boys and girls born and raised right here in my own town. That day changed me. Being a...