LifeWay Network

Healing often begins around a table.

In June, residents at LifeWay Network gathered for a cookout and journaling workshop led by Care Coordinator Venissa Vincent. Sharing a meal, reflecting together and building community are simple yet powerful ways survivors can find connection, stability and hope.

Recovery isn't only about having a safe place to stay. It's about creating opportunities to heal, grow and begin again.

💚 Thank you to everyone who makes these moments possible.

Now imagine that you’re desperately poor, hungry, uneducated and responsible for feeding yourself and your family.

What would you do for a job? What if you saw an ad online promising a good job in another country, one that could lift you out of a life of subsistence?

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons is July 30, and this year’s theme is Trapped Behind the Scam.

Transnational organized crime groups are trafficking and exploiting thousands of people and forcing them to take part in industrial-scale financial fraud operations. This growing form of trafficking is closely intertwined with cybercrime, financial fraud, money-laundering and corruption.

We usually think of the result of forced criminality — scammers stealing our infomation or resources. But often, there are people exploited on the other side of that misleading and persuasive phone call too.

Half the residents in our safe houses last year were survivors of labor trafficking. Their stories vary, but the force, fraud and coercion cause the same sort of trauma.

Help spread the word. Help us fight back. Donate today at LifeWayNetwork.org.