Haven connects neighbors to anti-trafficking operations in their own zip code. See your community's numbers. Give where it lands.
In 2024, Franklin County, Ohio recorded 214 reported cases — and most survivors said their neighbors never knew it was happening on their street.
Denise Okafor
Survivor Advocate · Columbus, Ohio
Every number below represents a real person in a real neighborhood — possibly one you drive through on the way to school.
reported cases in 2024
The United States has one of the highest reported rates of human trafficking in the world. Most cases go unreported.
cases reported statewide
Ohio ranks among the top five states for trafficking, driven by its highway corridors and mid-sized cities.
cases in 2024 alone
Franklin County reported 214 cases last year. Local shelters turned away 63 survivors due to capacity.
For eleven months, a residential street in Westerville, Ohio looked like every other block in the neighborhood. Kids walked to the bus stop. Neighbors waved from driveways. One house had a porch light that never turned off.
When investigators arrived in March 2024, they found three minors who had been trafficked for eight months. The operation ran out of a rental property two blocks from an elementary school.
“We didn’t know what to look for. Nobody told us what to look for.”— A neighbor, quoted in the Columbus Dispatch, April 2024
Haven was built so that neighbors know what to look for — and have a direct way to fund the people already doing the work of finding and freeing the children on those blocks.
Westerville, OH — Illustrative Map
Composite illustration — not an exact address
Haven was designed around one principle: a neighbor giving $25 should be able to point at a specific rescue operation and say, “I helped fund that.” No black boxes. No national overhead. No vague impact reports.
Enter your zip code. Haven surfaces the rescue organization operating nearest to you — within your county, not a national fund.
Haven's open ledger shows exactly which operation received your gift — shelter beds funded, tip-line hours paid, legal fees covered.
Your confirmation email names the organization, the operation type, and the county. Not a generic thank-you — a specific one.
Invite your PTA group, church small group, or business team. Haven tracks collective impact so your neighborhood sees what it did together.
traced to local operations
since 2023
giving circles formed
across 29 states
of donations stay in-county
no national overhead
A coalition of local advocates, funded in part by a Haven giving circle of 22 families from two Cincinnati-area churches, provided the tip-line infrastructure that made this recovery possible.
After learning her county had 34 active cases, Marjorie Whitfield sent one email to her school's parent list. Eleven days later, her giving circle had raised $8,400 for a local shelter.
David Thornton put a Haven card on every table at Thornton's Diner in Naperville, Illinois. His customers matched his $2,000 pledge — and the DuPage County shelter named a room after the diner.
A Kitchen Table Talk is a 45-minute conversation guide for small groups — church circles, PTA committees, business teams. We provide everything. You provide the table.
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