FALL 2024 ISSUE - Flipbook - Page 88
Empowering Lives: One Organization’s Fight
Against Human Trafficking
A
s human traïcking
continues to rise
to
unprecedented
levels in the U.S.,
organizations
oghting the war to
prevent
children
and others from
becoming victims have their work
cut out for them. Not just in terms
of needing funding and resources
to provide essential trauma recovery
services for those survivors who can
actually be found, who want to be
helped, and who need hope that there
is a safer future for them, but in
getting mainstream America on board
with public awareness campaigns and
prevention training from preschool
through college and beyond.
FAIR Girls is an anti-traïcking
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By_Andi Buerger, JD
501(c)3 nonproot organization founded
in 2003 by Andrea Powell. Powell, a
human rights activist with a huge heart
for her community, saw the lack of
specioc services for survivors of human
traïcking in the D.C. metro area as
well as many other areas. According to
Natalie Clayton, Executive Director for
FAIR Girls,