Linh* rebuilt her life after trafficking.
Now, your gift doubles to help the next woman do the same.
Every donation before March 31st is doubled. Your gift today funds long-term, trauma-informed care that restores women like Linh.
*name & image changed for privacy
"When I think about the past, it no longer controls my present."
Linh wasn’t taken off the street. She was a devoted mother, a professional, a woman with ambition for her future.
But abandoned by her husband far from home — with no money, no language, and no one to call — she became exactly what traffickers look for.
She dreamed of opportunity and adventure – instead she found herself trapped, alone, and desperate to survive.
Your Gift Provides:
Investigation
Finds exploited women and children and brings traffickers to justice
Restoration
Comprehensive survivor care: safe housing, trauma counseling, and love that restores dignity
Prevention
Prevention training with communities to stop exploitation before it starts
Linh Was Trafficked at Work
Linh was educated, professionally accomplished, and building a life she was proud of. She was raising her young son with her husband in Vietnam, and when he suggested they move abroad for new opportunities, she said yes without hesitation.
She believed in their future together. She believed it would be an adventure. She couldn’t have been more wrong.
How Trafficking Really Happens: Not Chains — Leverage
In a country where she didn’t speak the language and had no support network, Linh’s husband changed and one day, he simply vanished — taking their son with him. Linh was alone in a foreign country with no legal status, no savings, and no one to call.
Desperate to survive and desperate to find her son, Linh took the first job she could find. Her employer used her vulnerability against her. He withheld her wages. He isolated her. And then he used her terror of losing her son to sexually exploit her.
Linh was held hostage.
Not with locked doors or literal chains, but with leverage. Without the job — and whatever it took to keep it — she would lose her visa and any chance of staying in the country to fight for her child.
This is what human trafficking actually looks like.
It hides in plain sight. It exploits the people already on the edge. And it’s often not a stranger — it’s an employer, a partner, someone in a position of power.
Linh pictured above left with her Hagar counselor
Restoration isn’t a single breakthrough moment
Linh eventually fled and returned to Vietnam carrying trauma she could barely name. The confident, capable woman she had once been felt like a stranger to her. That’s when she was referred to Hagar.
Over two years, Linh received specialized, trauma-informed care through Hagar. No one judged her past. For the first time in years, she had a safe place to slowly reclaim her future.
Today, Linh is working again. And she has been able to reconnect with her son through phone and video calls.
“I no longer see myself as a complete failure. I have rediscovered the independent, hardworking person I once was. When I think about the past, it no longer controls my present.”
-Linh
Your Gift Gives Survivors the Time They Need to Heal
Recovery is the careful, steady rebuilding of dignity with people who show up and consistently stay through the long, quiet work of healing.Right now, other women are still inside the silence, still believing they have no way out.
Every dollar you give funds the kind of sustained care that actually changes lives.
Give With Confidence
At Hagar, every donation helps to prevent exploitation and rebuild lives. We keep overheads low, follow global best practices, and are proud to be recognized by national charity regulators for our fiscal responsibility.
You are part of something powerful, and we’re honored to steward your generosity with care.
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