50,000 Interceptions—and Counting!
What We Do
Stop human trafficking
Over 50 million people live in modern-day slavery because of human trafficking*. We train and place monitors at strategic transit points to identify and stop trafficking as it is occurring, BEFORE people are exploited. To date, we've intercepted over 50,000 individuals to prevent them from being trafficked.
*International Labour Organization
Help put traffickers in jail
Since we intercept hundreds of people monthly, intervening as the crime of trafficking occurs, we’re able to collect immensely valuable data on traffickers and their networks. Through our data analysis and investigations, we've helped authorities arrest over 1,400 suspects in connection with our anti-trafficking work. Read more here.
Care for the most vulnerable
Love Justice was established with the opening of family homes in some of the poorest parts of the world, caring for orphaned and abandoned children. We also operate a school in South Asia, empowering students to become difference makers in the world through excellent education.
See the Numbers
Fill out the form to download our 2023 Annual Report to read about the progress we've made in the fight against injustice.

Measuring the Impact of Our Anti-Trafficking Work
Love Justice fights human trafficking through transit monitoring, our human trafficking prevention strategy that is uniquely positioned to provide impact that is both measurable and cost-effective. It is the only tangible preventative method that we know of.
We know that donors invest their money in order to make an impact. More impact is obviously better than less. 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.
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:
- Determine the all-inclusive (direct spending, program execution, and fundraising/administration) investment we are making in our anti-trafficking work.
- Assign that investment, proportionally, between the two measurable outcomes of our anti-trafficking work: interceptions and arrests.
- 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.
To learn more details about the cost-per-intercept calculation, and to see how the math works, click here.
LJI by the Numbers

51,648
People intercepted to prevent from being trafficked
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$189
Cost to intercept one person and prevent them from being trafficked

73
Active transit monitoring stations

31
Countries where we have piloted transit monitoring

21
Short-term shelters for those who have been intercepted

1,400
Arrests stemming from our anti-trafficking work

29%
Percent of closed cases resulting in convictions
*data updated November 15, 2023
Where We Work
Our core work is currently based in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Benin, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Namibia, Cambodia, Mozambique, Lesotho, Liberia, Zambia, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ecuador, and Argentina.
- Where we're on the ground
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Read MoreOur Mission
Sharing the love of Jesus Christ by fighting the world’s greatest injustices.
Our Values Guide How We Work
Love Justice is driven by three core values that shape every program and management decision we make.

Be the Kingdom
All our work is done through local churches. We strive to live our faith in Jesus Christ and His gospel by following the directives of the New Testament in how we live, work, and relate to one another.
We consider our primary identity to be part of the body of Christ, rather than as “Love Justice.” As such, we would rather see five lives impacted and we get no credit, than get credit for the impact of four. All our work is done through local churches, and we are an evangelical organization that values sharing the good news of Jesus and believes that souls are more important than physical needs. If our focus is on justice work, it’s because we believe that if the Church is sharing the gospel, but not accompanied by the love-in-action that meets the needs of people suffering around them, they are not sharing the gospel—because the gospel is a gospel of love, which is not idle in the face of people’s suffering. In this sense, we see our mission as calling the Church to love justice.

Help Those Who Need It Most
Jesus said, "Whatever you do for the least of these, you do for me.” It is our goal to find and help those people who are truly the “least of these” among us.

Do Much with Little
We are called to make the greatest possible impact with the resources we’ve been entrusted with. Therefore, we strive to find and implement the strategies that make the greatest possible difference in the lives of as many people as possible with the limited resources we have been entrusted with.