Exciting High-Level Opportunities to Grow the Freedom Highway

The Freedom Highway is a network of hundreds of individuals, organizations, and churches scattered across Europe. This year, the movement has crossed borders and sectors of society:

• Students

• Tens of thousands of travelers in airports and train stations

• Community members

• Refugees fleeing from war

Because of your support, we are able to provide communities with vital education to promote the prevention of human trafficking. We’re also able to do the essential work of training first responders.

This is how your giving enables us to blanket nations with knowledge to promote trafficking prevention!

We’re excited to share two key avenues that have opened up in recent months: expanding connections in law enforcement and with government officials.

We continue to expand our training with local law enforcement and border patrol, including a special unit that will work to stop trafficking.

A new connection to police academies has allowed us access to train police officers in offices and villages, all the way up to the highest level of specialists in investigations, criminal procedures, and prison work. 

They’ve been excited about the practicality of the material.

One student graduating soon from the police academy told us: “Now I understand it is not other people called to fight against human trafficking, but it is us. I always had this idea that somebody else would do it. Now I understand that it is me who has to do it!”

Several have already asked to become volunteer trainers to spread The Freedom Highway into other communities!

The message came in from our European Director recently, “Please pray for the opportunity to meet with a key official in a consular office. We will have the chance to introduce the idea of training and share The Sanctuary model with the government.”

As doors open in consulates, embassies, and local and national governments, the news is spreading.

Uncaged is ready with the materials, the staff, and the passion to add government officials to The Freedom Highway.

We have submitted papers to a national government to lead a department that will recruit psychologists and researchers in the area of trauma for the healing of trafficking survivors. 

Will you pave the way to freedom with us?

Your gifts will help us walk through every door across Europe that is swinging open and respond to these important opportunities.

Find Out How You Can Pave the Way to Freedom

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You Hold the Key to Her Freedom

She has experienced horror day after day. Who knows for how long? The days ran together as she was sold by her trafficker over and over. He threatened her family if she tried to escape. He beat her when she didn’t make him enough money.

But she met a kind man who said he would help her get to safety. She didn’t know if she could trust him but she didn’t know where else to turn. What he said was true. He helped her escape from that terrible place. Home is still very far away and she doesn’t know what the future looks like. But for now, she is free.

He has introduced her to other people she is starting to trust. The doctors at the hospital were gentle when they bandaged her wounds. The medicine is starting to make her feel better. They tell her she is loved, and that they’ve been waiting for her. They tell her about a place of peace they’ve prepared just for her. It’s called The Sanctuary. She wants to believe it exists and that she will make it there.

She doesn't own anything anymore, so they bring her clothes and warm food to eat. “I don’t deserve this,” she whispers. “How can I ever repay you?” They tell her she doesn’t need to and that people like them will be with her the whole way.

They talk about a network of anti-trafficking advocates who care about women and children like herself. They want to make sure no one goes through what she has gone through. They want to help her to heal. She tells them she doesn’t know how she will get home. She has been in jail before and her trafficker threatened he would make sure she was charged with prostitution. She doesn’t have an ID or a passport. How will she deal with the legal issues, the documentation she needs, and the transportation back home?

“It’s called The Freedom Highway,” they say. There are people who will help you—lawyers, doctors, church members, and the Uncaged team. “We know it may feel like a long journey, but you won’t be alone.”

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This is not one survivor’s story. It is the story of all of them. The particulars may be different—from how old she is, how long she was trafficked, how the rescue happens, or how she gets to a place of healing and transformation. It’s the story of her journey home. It is often filled with obstacles and it takes many people walking alongside her. Will you be one of them?

The journey takes the support of donors who provide for a survivor along the way. Pave the way to freedom with your gift today!