Newsletter: October Issue - 2025

Just last week, we were in Sierra Leone training the safe house staff, launching the safe house, and meeting with government officials. During this trip, we trained 25 Sierra Leoneans who will be staffing the safe house. Our training focused on building foundational concepts of fighting human trafficking and empowering the staff to find Sierra Leonean solutions to potential issues. One of our primary mantras has been to ensure that we do not Americanize this process. During our official launch event, approximately 200 people attended, including regional and national directors from the Ministry of Social Welfare and the Ministry of Gender Affairs, as well as the lead detective for the Family Support Unit (FSU) for the area. The FSU investigates and prosecutes crimes involving domestic and sexual violence. Having these high-level government officials attend the launch allowed us to begin the rapport-building process. After the launch event, in a meeting with the representative from the Ministry of Social Welfare and the FSU detective, they all expressed their gratitude for the work we are doing and their willingness to partner with us as we expand our operations into prevention, investigation, and retrieval operations.

More broadly, three things became abundantly clear to us during our trip:

1. There is a need for the safe house. Throughout our time in Sierra Leone, it was repeatedly stated that labor trafficking is a significant problem. One of our next steps is to research the extent of this problem and find additional ways we can help. This point is further emphasized by the excitement that we saw when discussing partnering with the Sierra Leonean government. What we planned as a simple training trip made national headlines, showing the desire to fight this evil within their own borders.

2. We are blessed. Not only have we been blessed monetarily, but we are also continually afforded opportunities to develop skills that may not be available to someone in a less developed country who has to think about where their next meal is coming from. This is not something that we chose, but we do control how we use these opportunities. Do we develop skills for ourselves, or do we leverage them to glorify God? As our work continues in Sierra Leone, we will need people with skills ranging from investigative expertise to sewing to open source intelligence gathering, who are willing to use their skills for God’s work.

3. We have already made an impact. This is most clearly seen through the Hope for Sierra Leone Scholarship, which has sent 10 young Sierra Leoneans to college (and has 3 more about to start). This is a life-changing opportunity for the Sierra Leoneans, and this is only possible through the generosity of each of you.

We have already begun to plan what our next trip will entail. The Sierra Leoneans have expressed a need for a seminar-type training. We see this as a twofold effort. One being a seminar for the civilian populace, teaching about the threats Sierra Leone is facing, and how traffickers lie and deceive to take advantage of people. Two, a seminar for the policing force and government officials focusing more on investigation and policy.

We set out almost exactly two years ago to combat human trafficking, not knowing what God had planned for us. Last week we were able to take the first major step in fulfilling His plan. Our goal for this organization is to fight human trafficking in every conceivable way. This past week has made one thing clear: God has called us to this work. We serve an unfathomable God; we will not dream small. We will fight.

God Bless,

Seth A. N. McAnally

Founder, President