Prevention | Hagar USA

Restoring Life & Dignity

Preventing Exploitation

We Want to Stop Exploitation Before it Starts

Traffickers often target impoverished rural communities where they coerce and manipulate women and children into exploitation and abuse.

By equipping local leaders, survivors, and their families with the knowledge and tools to fight exploitation, we help prevent trafficking and abuse from happening at all.

Equip Local Leaders

Hagar equips survivors, their families, and local leaders with knowledge about human trafficking and how to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.

Address Root Causes

We invest in economic empowerment and income generation opportunities for survivors and their families to reduce vulnerability to abuse and exploitation.

Raise Awareness

Education is key to prevention! Through widespread prevention campaigns, Hagar educates vulnerable people to avoid abuse, human trafficking and exploitation.

Back to Our Work

Prevention Impact 2022

+1 Million

adults and children at-risk for trafficking were reached through television and social media awareness campaigns in Cambodia, Singapore and Vietnam.

7,339

community leaders were trained to prevent human trafficking, gender-based violence, and abuse in Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Vietnam.

1,058

survivors received vocational training or started small businesses, reducing their vulnerability to re-exploitation.

“I didn’t know the meaning of modern slavery and how to help our community members reduce their vulnerability to human trafficking. Through this training, I now clearly know how to protect my community members.”