We are proud to announce that we now have our promotional products available on our website in our on-line store! To view and purchase these promotional products, click on "Support" and then "Promotional Products." When you purchase and wear these products, you are not only raising awareness about human trafficking, but you are also helping to support Home of Hope.

A Fresh New Vision

Recently Home of Hope-Texas' Board of Directors decided to bring on new leadership that would carry the vision of Sandra Bass Palmer, Home of Hope's founder to reality. The new leaders as well as the Board of Directors are committed to seeing a facility and program in operation that will provide a Home of Hope and restoration to many adolescent victims of human trafficking.

The new leaders are busy finalizing government requirements, building relationships with State and Federal contacts, preparing facilites, and raising funding in preparation for receiving girls who are being rescued.

The task of caring for these young victims is vast. Many times their health is in poor condition, their emotional condition is wrecked, and their viewpoint of people and God have been severely scared.

The vision is vast and the task is large, but the leadership of Home of Hope-Texas is ready for the challenge.

The Battle Against Human Trafficking

The U.S. State Department estimates that 800,000 men, women, and children, are trafficked across international borders each year by criminals.  It is also estimated that approximately 20% of those individuals go through the State of Texas.  In fact, Houston and El Paso are listed amount the “most intense trafficking jurisdictions in the country” according to U.S. Department of Justice.

Human trafficking is defined by the Bureau of Justice Statistics as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for one of three purposes:

1. Labor or services through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

2. A commercial sex act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion; or,

3. Any commercial sex act, if the person is under 18 years of age, regardless of whether any form of coercion is involved.

It is important to know that human trafficking is not exclusive to one segment of society.  Human trafficking involves victims of all races, age groups, both males and females and U.S. citizens as well as non-citizens.   Individuals seeking to force people into human trafficking do not discriminate amongst their victims and often prey upon those who are most vulnerable.

<Todd Hunter, State Representative>

Polaris Project

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How to Identify Victims of Human Trafficking and Hotline Numbers for Texas

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