Trafficking
Pay for recovery. Know the number.
In 2021, the latest estimate, 49.6 million people were in modern slavery.1 One person won’t take down a network. You can pay for the recovery that rescue leaves out, know what a bad job looks like and be the friend with the number, and back enforcement that workers run. Pick a door.
National Human Trafficking Hotline
Call 1-888-373-7888 · Text 233733
24 hours, in English, Spanish and 200+ other languages through an interpreter, anonymous if you want. If someone is in danger right now, call 911.
Learn
What’s true
Who is trafficked, for what, by whom; why “two-thirds online” isn’t a global number; and what the hotline does with your call.
10 minutes
Do
The whole thing
Give to recovery, learn what a bad job looks like, back enforcement that workers run. Plus the talk to have with a teenager tonight.
25 minutes · from $0
Practice
Keep it going
Six scenarios: sign or not? A yearly rhythm, and a checklist that remembers where you are.
A drill · 5 minutes
If you only have
- One minute: save 1-888-373-7888 and 233733 in your phone.
- Five minutes: set up a monthly gift to recovery. Many federal grants for it lapsed in October 2025.3
- Ten minutes: read what a bad job looks like. Not chains and vans: a fee, a debt, a held passport, a tied visa.
- Tonight, if you have a teenager: the sextortion talk, before anything happens.
Where this started: Ending sex and human trafficking, an essay from 2025. These pages are built from the sources, not the essay; its page lists what has changed since it was written.
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If someone is in danger right now, don’t use this form. Call your local emergency number (911 in the US). For trafficking: 1-888-373-7888, or text 233733.
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