Hope for Justice
Registered charity number 1126097
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Zoe's Story
Why your donation matters
People are being bought and sold for sexual exploitation and forced labour in our own communities. Many come from countries where the police are feared or traffickers create fear saying, ‘they own the police’ or even dress up as police officers before abusing them.
But there is hope, and you're it!
Hope for Justice come alongside victims and build bridges of trust. If you support Hope for Justice financially you'll fund investigators to identify victims and social workers to oversee the transition from exploitation to aftercare, train frontline organisations to spot the signs of trafficking and enable lawyers to push for prosecutions. You'll give victims a voice by sending our campaigners across the country and into Westminster. You’ll restore lives.
Case study: donations in action
Zoe was trafficked into the UK for sex. Young and vibrant, she thought she was coming to work in a hotel and she was looking forward to it. When she arrived her new dream life evaporated into nightmare. She was taken to a hotel. But instead of a uniform she was instructed to put on underwear. She was threatened, violently assaulted and then raped. Over and over she was violated, forced to work as a prostitute.
Moved from town to town across the UK and sold on to another trafficker, Zoe was too terrified and traumatised to escape. They threatened to come after her family if she ever tried to leave and in that place where all hope seemed lost, she had no reason to doubt their words. Once a police officer even spoke to Zoe but she was too scared to tell him what was happening.
Hope for Justice’s investigators found Zoe and gained her trust. They told her how precious she was and delivered her into an aftercare facility to begin her recovery. Her hope was restored.