FAQs

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If hired for a “support-raised” position, the successful candidate will be required to raise financial support to cover his/her own salary, benefits, and related expenses. LJI will provide administrative and prayer support throughout the process, as well as guidance and resources to build up a support base.

• Expat employees are eligible for the following benefits:
• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
• 403(b) retirement plan with up to 6% of employees’ contributions matched by LJI, dependent on years of service.
• *Paid time off for holidays, vacation, sick days, and home leave.
• Staff retreats and member care for staff in the Program HQ.
• Stateside employees are eligible for the following benefits:
• Medical,  dental, vision, and life insurance benefits 
• 403(b) retirement plan with up to 6% of employees’ contributions matched by LJI, dependent on years of service.
• *Paid time off for holidays, vacation, and sick leave. 
• Annual staff retreats and other team-building events.
• *Actual benefits vary depending on the employee's status, category, and work location.

• For all staff: At LJI, our mission of sharing the love of Christ by fighting the world's greatest injustices takes us to the far corners of the globe and into cultures and locations where our international staff are often far less effective than locals to carry out on-the-ground work. The challenges of this mission have led us to a very specific understanding of our role, articulated as LJI's core competency: searching out the people, places, and tools to maximize mission impact.
• This unique self-understanding of our role means that we deliberately aim to cultivate an environment where the best ideas have a chance to rise to the top, and our approach to hiring comes out of that. We aim to hire highly capable and passionate people and work with them to figure out how the gifts and passions God has given them can best fulfill our mission, with job descriptions intended to evolve over time as we jointly come to understand that better. For this reason, all LJI staff are expected to be highly thoughtful, capable problem-solvers who are able to think deeply and carefully, and engage in healthy dialectic about how we can share Christ's love by fighting injustice.
• For overseas staff: Employees will be required to make a two-year commitment to overseas roles, take language classes during the first 12 weeks of their stay in the field, and submit to experienced field staff on culturally sensitive matters.
• For stateside staff: Although our stateside staff are remote and will have a degree of flexibility within their work schedules, we expect our staff to be available during business hours to respond to emails, attend required meetings, etc. Moreover, given that we are an international organization with staff around the world and in various time zones, we expect stateside staff to be flexible and attend meetings during non-business hours as needed.

• Given our organizational structure and the time it takes to adjust to living overseas, we ask all overseas staff to make a two-year commitment to work with LJI. An evaluation will be held after three months to review performance. 
• In order for potential staff to get a better glimpse of our work and what life in the field entails, short-listed candidates will be invited on a one to two week “exploration trip” to the location in which they would be working. This trip is a mandatory part of our application process and will always occur prior to the offer and/or acceptance of an overseas position with LJI.

Given the sensitive nature of our work and our desire to protect both our staff and those we serve, we do not offer short-term overseas trips at this time. Occasionally, internships or fellowships will be offered; these positions can be found on our careers page.

Our transit monitoring strategy focuses on identifying and assisting victims of trafficking while they are being transported and before they reach the destination where they will be exploited. We “intercept” someone when we have good reason to believe that they are in the process of being trafficked or at high risk of being trafficked. We then intervene to educate the person about the dangers of trafficking, to raise awareness about ways that they can safely seek employment abroad, and to help them to return home.

While there are many ways to measure an NGO’s impact, we believe that cost per intercept serves as a concise and straightforward tool for us—and others—to judge our effectiveness.

Cost-Per-Intercept Calculation

At LJI, cost per intercept is a one-year historic calculation that indicates to program staff and donors the cost to intercept an individual to prevent them from being trafficked. It tells us—and you—exactly what the impact is and sheds light on our ability to achieve our core value: Do much with little. Lastly, it helps drive decisions about where and how dollars invested can achieve the greatest impact.

While we report a one-year rolling figure, we measure this number monthly to internally push us toward greater impact. You can view the monthly number in the rolling statistics listed below, and across our website.

This number is determined through three steps:

1. Determine the all-inclusive (direct spending, program execution, and fundraising/administration) investment we are making in our anti-trafficking work.
2. Assign that investment, proportionally, between the two measurable outcomes of our anti-trafficking work: interceptions and arrests.
3. Divide the total number of interceptions by the assigned investment.

At the end of 2022, our one-year cost-per-intercept number stood at $201. For about the cost of a monthly car payment, our monitors can prevent the exploitation of an infinitely valuable individual.

We educate potential victims about the dangers of trafficking and very seldom intercept the same person twice.

Both.

• • Often after we call the individual’s parents, they insist that we don't allow them to go. If they are a minor, they have the authority to make that decision.
  • We can involve the police, who have the legal authority to stop them.
  • We may convince the individual that they are being trafficked so that they decide not to go on.

This number varies every month. Join our email list and be the first to hear when we release our monthly numbers.

Our reported intercept numbers undergo a rigorous verification process that reflects our deep commitment to accurately measure and report our impact, but they can fluctuate. Each intercept our transit monitoring teams believe to be valid is carefully reviewed by at least two trusted national office staff members to ensure it meets our criteria. The intercept is only reported once the Intercept Record Form (which documents the details of the intercept) is uploaded into our human trafficking database and verified by our team. Additionally, LJI routinely audits a sample of each country’s intercepts, which can occasionally lead to slight adjustments in the reported numbers.

With every potential victim we intercept, we prioritize educating them about the dangers of trafficking. We believe that this approach to awareness is very targeted and effective because it is educating someone that we believe was actually being trafficked or heading into a high-risk situation.

We don't count or report on intercepts until they are verified through a two-step internal process to ensure each intercept fits within our definition of when to intercept, which involves situations where we have good reason to believe that a person is being trafficked or is at high risk of being trafficked. When staff are convinced (by red flags) that a person should be intercepted, their role is to explain the dangers of trafficking and as best they can persuade the person to stop. However, ultimately, the decision is up to the potential victim. Transit monitors should never forcefully prevent an adult from migrating. Minors may be stopped at the request of their parents, and of course, law enforcement may forcibly stop anyone that we have identified if they choose to do so.  

Despite our verification process, it is important to note that we cannot know for certain that a given intercept was or would have become an actual case of human trafficking, as it involves a future event that was prevented from happening. The reality is very complex, and decisions about whether to count particular intercepts can involve significant gray areas. One example of a common type of intercept that we consider somewhat of a "gray area" involves stranded travelers. Our staff often encounter people who are stranded at transit locations (like train or bus stations) who lack the resources or ability to get home. Many have left an exploitative situation and made it back to the transit location. Due to a growing volume of these ambiguous cases in 2021, we surveyed some of our knowledgeable contacts in the areas it was happening to ask if they perceived stranded travelers to be at a high risk of human trafficking. The majority of their responses to that question confirmed that there is a high risk, and for that reason, we do continue to count these cases as an intercept (High Risk of Trafficking) when we’re able to help them return home safely.

The Dream School is a school in South Asia that currently serves around 230 students. We recently moved to a new location and constructed a larger building in order to expand our school and accommodate more children.

• Career assessments
• Life-skill lessons
• College application support
• Scholarship opportunities
• One-on-one mentor support

Child exploitation and abuse are shockingly common in many of the countries where we work. For example, in one of these countries, a large-scale government survey suggests that more than half (53%) of children have experienced sexual abuse. It is also common for corporal punishment (even severe forms) to be used against children as discipline, which we at Love Justice would define as abuse. We have taken comprehensive steps to safeguard the welfare of our children and to establish a safe and nurturing environment in all our family homes, including training parents and caretakers on appropriate methods of discipline, conducting regular check-ins with children and parents from trained counselors, vetting staff and parents who will work with children, and implementing other systems to protect the children in our homes. Our Child Protection Policy clearly defines and prohibits physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and is designed to ensure that if abuse does occur, it is swiftly discovered and dealt with in a way that protects the victims. This policy has been effective in helping us discover, investigate, and immediately address any instances of abuse in our homes. For minor infractions (like spanking), we train parents on more appropriate behaviors. For serious offenses, remedial actions include removing the perpetrator(s) from the home and reporting the matter to the authorities (except in the rare context where doing so would result in further harm to the victim).

Project Beautiful is our passionate community of monthly donors committed to protecting beautiful lives from human trafficking. Members have set up a recurring donation with us that goes directly to our anti-trafficking work.

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Additionally, in order to multiply our ability to help those in need, we are committed to empowering our international fields to learn and invest in stable, long-term projects that generate income, so that eventually they can become self-sustainable and reproducible. To learn more about our financial transparency and to view our latest 990 form or our most recent financial audit, please visit our financials page.