“Rescue the poor and helpless; deliver them from the grasp of evil people.”
The primary causes of enslavement are poverty, vulnerability, and oppression.
Latest Global Human Trafficking Statistics (2025 Update)
Learn more at AIM.
Sex Trafficking is only 13% of what is considered modern-day slavery
35.2 million are women and girls, making up 71% of all trafficked persons
1 in 4 of those living in modern-day slavery are children under the age of 18
Our Approach
We take a four-pronged approach to freeing women and children around the world:
Freedom begins by breaking cycles of poverty, exploitation, and oppression through education, skills training, and basic support systems.
Freedom is cultivated through long-term solutions like vocational training, micro-saving programs, and other opportunities that empower current and future generations.
Freedom is extended through outreach efforts that connect enslaved women and children with safe spaces for long-term healing and care.
Freedom is strengthened through extensive care that rebuilds lives by offering physical and spiritual healing, trauma counseling, and life-skills training.
We raise funds and awareness to combat human trafficking.
The Freedom Challenge is a ministry of Operation Mobilization (OM).
Where do the funds go?
Fundraising from our Challenges goes to support OM project initiatives around the world that help prevent trafficking, develop, rescue, and restore women and children.
PREVENT
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Scholars Program
To break the cycles of poverty and oppression, 120 high-risk scholars are receiving long-term academic scholarships (from elementary to college). During these years, scholars are discipled and given access to quality education, where they can become godly leaders and educated change-makers in their communities.
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Mercy House
This day center is located in Mukululu, the largest slum in the country. Approximately 80 children come to the center daily to receive biblical teachings and a meal, often the only meal they will have that day. This center also hosts weekend youth events with games for teenagers, devotions for moms, and now has a rescue safe house available for up to 15 girls escaping extremely abusive situations.
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Children Day Centers and Camps
Approximately 400 vulnerable children attend the day centers daily to receive, warm meals, help with homework, and learn about the Bible. Additionally, each year the OM team in Moldova holds girl and boys summer camps During these camps, children receive social, spiritual, physical, and emotional education, focused on specifically equipping them to be protected from sexual exploitation.
DEVELOP
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Threads of Hope
Threads of Hope aims to provide life-changing opportunities through training and employment. Women rescued from trafficking are invited to join a training program; they learn not only sewing but other business skills. After completing the training program, trainees can apply for employment through Threads of Hope, where they can utilize their newly learned skills to create beautifully sewn purses, bags, and home goods.
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Tabitha Designs
Beginning in 2012 with approximately 10 vulnerable women, this center has expanded to include about 70 women yearly, providing them with the opportunity to learn skills such as tailoring, cooking, beading, knitting, crocheting, and literacy. Many of these trained women then go on to train others.
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Women’s Tailoring and Computer Training
Every year more than 200 young women, who are college-educated but don’t have access to computers, are trained in computer skills. To date, 80% of the women have gone on to find employment. A second training program provides for approximately 280 uneducated women to be trained annually in tailoring, allowing them to provide for their family’s needs.
RESCUE
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Hope House
This program works to place girls who have experienced abuse into the loving homes of local OM missionary families so that they experience a caring father figure to help them know healing and love from their Heavenly Father. While living with their OM families, these girls attend the local OM school and skills training programs.
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Anti-Human Trafficking Outreach
Located within multiple European countries and focused on outreach in brothels, these ministries focus on outreach in brothels. These ministries focus on increasing awareness and providing information that will help women leave a life of exploitation. They also offer needed hygiene products. They boldly proclaim the love of Christ to the vulnerable while also providing awareness-raising programs in regional source countries.
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The Tamar Center
For 21 years, this center has ministered to over 35,000 girls in Pattaya, Thailand. The need to find work in Pattaya and send money home to their families has led many of these girls into forced prostitution. This outreach center, located in the red-light district, is where the girls are ministered to through weekly outreaches, a hair salon, English classes, and a safe place to which they can escape and be prayed for, receive counseling, and be connected with a church community.
RESTORE
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Transformational Development Ministries
Project Freedom is a social work project that helps children, women, and families from abusive and/or exploitative backgrounds, who are seeking to break out of the cycle of poverty. Through counseling and education courses, this ministry seeks to empower and facilitate children, adults, and families in changing their own personal circumstances.
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House of Damaris
A safe home for women who have escaped prostitution, House of Damaris offers women a place to stay for the duration of their time in the recovery program, or until they are ready to move out and live independently while attending classes.
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Self-Help Groups
Begun in 2003, these groups are a self-sustaining movement, made up of approximately 18,000 women. They are grounded on the principle that every woman is created in the image of God with gifts and abilities to lead change in their families and communities. These united women are immeasurably strong, having tackled issues such as child marriage, domestic violence, literacy, public transportation, and clean water.
The projects highlighted are a summary of only a handful of the OM projects Freedom Challenge is currently supporting. View our Project Book to see more projects and read impact stories.
Visit a Project
We host yearly Mission Trips to visit the projects we support. These trips are in high demand, let us know if you are interested in joining us in the future.
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Impact Stories
Place to Belong
Dima spent much of his time on the streets. He would disappear for weeks, with no one knowing where he was or whether he had eaten. He struggled in school and had no real place to call home.
The Unexpected
Connie Hallof shares how traveling to the Philippines to visit Freedom Challenge projects gave her and her teammates more than they bargained for…
Daring to Dream
Providing skills training to vulnerable women can really turn their lives around. This is the story of how one young woman's life was transformed thanks to one of our training courses