Anti-Trafficking Impact Multiplying Strategies and More

The Price of Freedom Just Dropped to $112

By John Molineux | CEO & Founder at Love Justice International October 7, 2025

Early this year, some of my colleagues at Love Justice International flagged a crowded, unregistered vehicle crossing a border on the way from Ethiopia to South Africa. Inside were nine people, including several children, who had been lured without their parents’ consent by false promises of high-paying jobs. In reality, undocumented migrants like these are often forced into sweatshops, sex work, or hidden labor camps where beatings, debt bondage, and exploitation are routine.

Our team intervened, intercepting eight individuals we believe would have become victims of human trafficking. The trafficker was arrested and charged, and the potential victims were returned to their families—spared from a nightmare that could have defined their lives.

We call this “intercepting”—finding trafficking cases in transit to stop them before exploitation begins.

At this moment, it costs just $112 to protect one person from being trafficked. Not a penny hidden, this figure covers everything, even Love Justice's overhead and fundraising. Just a few years ago, that number was far higher. But through innovation, discipline, and scale, we’ve made freedom more affordable than ever. It means that partners like you are getting the greatest impact per dollar and are protecting more lives than ever before.

But $112 does far more than protect one life. As we have long believed, systematically disrupting trafficking routes prevents many more cases than we ever directly see. In fact, a study by the Walk Free Foundation’s Global Slavery Index found that slavery declined by 9% per year in the 16 countries where our work began prior to 2022, while in the rest of the world, it increased by 11.6% annually. (We are conducting deeper analysis to understand these findings.)

$112 means one person is spared from the horror of trafficking, several others are prevented from being trafficked, and there are ripple effects that weaken the systems of slavery themselves.

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Why this matters

This kind of impact became possible for Love Justice when we internalized Jesus's words in Matthew 25:40: “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” This scripture shaped our core value, "Help Those Who Need It Most," and led us to search the world for the greatest injustices. That search led us to human trafficking.

Scripture makes it clear that we are called to care for our families (1 Timothy 5:8) and to love our neighbors as ourselves. But Christ gives special consideration for “the least of these.” Why? Because when we serve those closest to us, part of the blessing flows back to us. But when we serve the neediest—those with nothing to give in return—we do it for Him alone.

The parable of the Good Samaritan reminds us: the question isn’t, “Who counts as my neighbor?” but “Will I be a neighbor to those in greatest need?”

And the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) reminds us that God has entrusted each of us with resources—whether time, money, or influence—that we are called to steward well. The servants who invested wisely were commended; the one who buried his talent was not. As Christians, this should matter deeply to us. We are not called to hoard what God has given us, but to multiply it in service of others. When $112 can intercept a life and disrupt slavery itself, we see a clear picture of how our stewardship can translate into eternal impact.

Love is not sentiment but action. If we or our loved ones were in desperate need, we would care little about intentions or anything else—only whether real help came. For the vulnerable, the difference between ineffective goodwill and effective intervention is the difference between being saved and being lost.

That conviction led us to build Love Justice around a simple principle: when given a choice between doing more good or less, we must always choose more. We are called to maximize the impact of every resource entrusted to us.

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A story that shaped me

I’ll never forget our first intercept. It was just under 20 years ago, a couple of years after I moved to Nepal to start Love Justice. I had learned about human trafficking and was filled with broken-hearted desperation to do something to stop it. After spending a year learning anti-trafficking strategies and trying to set something up on a remote corner of the Nepal-India border, on August 29, 2006, I received an email. It said: “We've intercepted someone being trafficked.”

In that moment, I knew this was the most important thing I had ever been a part of.

From that single case, we’ve grown to nearly 100 intercepts every day. And we believe that scaling further can accelerate the downfall of slavery where it is most rampant.

Why your partnership matters

little-girl-smiling-2 None of this would be possible without our donors. You are the reason we are having the kind of life-changing impact described above. You will not meet the individuals you’ve protected. You won’t hear all their stories or clasp their hands in gratitude. But for all eternity, they will be part of our crown of glory (1 Thessalonians 2:19).

Isaiah 58 promises that when God’s people loose the chains of injustice, set the oppressed free, and break every yoke, light will break forth like the dawn, healing will appear, and His guidance and strength will never fail.

So when I say $112 changes everything, I don’t just mean that it intercepts one person. I mean it sets captives free, weakens slavery’s grip, and draws us closer to the promises of God Himself.

If you have given this year to stop trafficking in its tracks: thank you. On this side of eternity, you may never know the lives you’ve changed. But in the kingdom, the impact will shine like the noonday sun. And to that I say, Amen.

Give $112 today at the button below to keep another person free from slavery.

*All data and statistics current at the date and time of publishing.

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