Dear John,

I’ve written to you before on Polaris’s vital work to end sex and labor trafficking. Today I want to spotlight the brave, resilient survivors who not only found the courage to get themselves on the path to freedom, but who are the true experts in the anti-human trafficking field.

At Polaris, we are engaging survivors in our work and empowering them to share their expertise. Working with the survivor community, we use their experiences to inform our research on the businesses and systems that play a role in making sex and labor trafficking possible. With survivor insight, we can better understand and devise solutions to end human trafficking.

This Thursday, July 30th, we’ll be observing World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. This is a day for us to celebrate the thousands of survivors, and to remember the tens of millions of people still trapped in trafficking situations. To recognize this day, I hope you will help us meet our $100,000 Matching Gift Challenge by stepping up your support with a gift today. During this special challenge, your donation will have triple the impact.

This means your gift will have three times the impact in helping trafficking victims access the resources they need to get on the path to freedom, three times as many resources to investigate and dismantle entire networks, and three times stronger protections for those most vulnerable to becoming trafficking victims.

Once survivors are able to get out of their trafficking situations, some go on to work in the anti-human trafficking field, while others go on to become teachers, parents, artists, writers, doctors, and lawyers. But all of them have found the strength in themselves to change their lives.

I hope we can count on your generous contribution in honor of World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. There are still 25 million trafficked people around the world – your support can help them go from trafficking victim to survivor. Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Nancy McGuire Choi
Interim CEO