We are modern day abolitionists fighting modern day slavery. We come from all walks of life, and all types of backgrounds, and represent all age groups. We are Freedom Fighters.
Our Purpose
Elim was created to serve a dual purpose each simple in its own way.
Each purpose is specific and serves a specific person.
Our first purpose is to reach the specific type of person who is not detoxed and thirty days clean so that they can get into a long-term rehab and needs a place to stay on their way out of their own personal Egypt (bondage/slavery).
A place to stay in between the streets and detox as well as a long-term facility.
We will bridge the gap that no one else does. We are the church that never sleeps.
Our goal is to never turn anyone away and never miss a call.
Our second purpose is equally important. We aim to be a model
with so much success that we can help others launch a place or make changes to
their pre-existing to achieve higher success in helping people.
Statistics
Global
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According to the International Labour Organization, human trafficking is approximately a $150 billion industry- the second most lucrative black market, second to only the illegal drug trade
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At any given time 49.6 million people were living in “modern slavery” in 2021, when including forced marriage.
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The number of victims has increased 10 million the last year to 60 million.
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Of the 27.6 million people in forced labour, 17.3 million are exploited in the private sector; 6.3 million in forced commercial sexual exploitation, and 3.9 million in forced labour imposed by state.
National
The top five states in the country with the highest human trafficking case counts are California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi, but every state in the US has reports of human trafficking.
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Human trafficking wasn't illegal until 2000, when the Trafficking Victims Protection Act was passed, which made it a federal crime.
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Today, hundreds of thousands of human trafficking victims are thought to be working in exploitative conditions in the US.
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Over the last 5 years 41% of calls for National Human Trafficking Hotline were for children.
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70% of all commercial sex is sold online.
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Intimate partners recruited 38% of sex trafficking victims
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Family recruited 27.1%
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“Other” recruited 21.3%
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A friend recruited 14.6%
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Over 50% of the world’s sex trafficking occurs in the U.S.
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The Samaritan woman institute for shelter care defining familial trafficking says Prevalence is an important term. Between 25% and 50% of child trafficking is from familial trafficking which is trafficked by a family member. Parents, aunt, uncle, etc., those trafficked by non-family average age is 11 and by family is 14-17
Biological mother is usually the perpetrator by allowing access to the child knowing what that will allow to happen. Usually trafficked out of their own home. This means the child doesn’t have to be transported the client comes to the home.
This happens for monetary gain but usually for exchange for drugs.
The commercial sex industry in the Birmingham Metro Area is a $110 Million dollar a year industry. -Homeland Security Investigations Birmingham Field Office
*Does Not Include Child Sex trafficking nor Illicit Massage Parlors
World Games Ops Summer 2022
• 34 arrests of commercial sex buyers
• Six arrests on human trafficking related charges
• Eight arrests of adult males for online enticement of a minor and traveling to meet a minor for sex
• 15 adult sex trafficking victims identified and provided services
• Four minor victims of labor trafficking identified and provided services
• Two minor sex trafficking victims identified and provided services
• 11 minor victims of online sexual exploitation and sextortion identified
• Seven adult labor trafficking victims identified and provided services
• Seven missing and endangered minors were located, recovered, and provided services
• Nine felony drug arrests
• One arrest of a fugitive from Michigan on charges of felony impersonation of a police officer
• Over a dozen outstanding state and local arrest warrants served on people encountered, including one for attempted murder
• Seizure of nine firearms
• More than 20 search warrants executed
• Seizure of more than $30K in counterfeit goods
Local
What is Human Trafficking?
First and foremost. Human trafficking is the largest civil rights violation of our time.
It is modern day slavery hidden in plain sight.
It’s definition in its simplest form is: “The exploitation of a person’s vulnerability.”
Human Trafficking is any services one is compelled to perform through force, fraud, or coercion.
Like a terminal disease “The Life” or “The Game” comes to steal, kill, and destroy. It comes as a false light appearing to be attractive but then shape-shifts into an ugly, deadly, darkness.
It is a serpent that slithers through the cracks into every facet of society. 1 Peter 5:8 tells us Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
That’s being opportunistic. Human traffickers are “opportunists”. That verse is telling us beware of opportunists wanting to exploit a person’s vulnerabilities. Which is what human traffickers do.
What is a human trafficking survivor?
A human trafficking survivor is a person who has encountered and suffered through extreme narcissistic abuse, extreme levels of trauma bonding, and extreme levels of crazy making.
Narcissistic abuse, trauma bonding, and crazy making are all terms the science of psychology uses to describe what human trafficking victims endure.
The Bible has one word that describes what a human trafficking survivor endures. That word is evil.
How it happens:
Traffickers use what is known as “The Grooming Process”.
The “Grooming Process” can simply be described as looking for and identifying a person’s vulnerabilities and then finding ways to exploit them.
A person who is constantly seeking attention and/or validation, and/or a person with an addiction is an easy target and they are the most vulnerable, regardless of whether they are an adult or a child because they’re willing to do anything for the attention, validation, or the drug.
Even if there is self-exploitation there is STILL a level of human trafficking. Traffickers are master at deceiving people into believing that their prey want to be doing what they’re doing.
To understand coercion and grooming you must understand victimology, which is to be able to say and understand spiritual bondage is greater than physical bondage in certain situations.
Human trafficking victims find themselves in situations that they can’t get out of on their own. In the streets this is called the trap. Haven’t we all been in that situation at one time or another.
Traffickers weaponize a person’s disappointments, life trauma, and vulnerabilities against them, and if they have an addiction, they weaponize that also. Too often a person’s disappointments, and life trauma are what lead to addictions anyway.
Human traffickers manipulate their victims into thinking that they are looking for a genuine relationship and/or romance them with gifts and then ultimately use force, fraud or coercion, to profit from the victim Additional Information: Life Expectancy is 6-10 years for a sex trafficking victim
