I was thrilled to come across a website the other day about a campaign called Philadelphia Anti-Trafficking Coalition. One of the organizations I discovered while reading through this was Dawn's Place.
Dawn's Place is an organization based in Philadelphia that proactively supports women who have been negatively affected by sexual exploitation. They provide immediate shelter in a beautiful 3-story home for women who escape from their pimps/johns. Once a woman has come under the shelter of Dawn's Place, she is given trauma recovery services, as well as, most importantly, vocational training so that she can re-enter the world into a secure job market.
In addition to providing shelter and services to exploited women, they also work to expose the problem to the public through education, prevention, and fights for public policy reform.
The name, "Dawn's Place," was created in memory of an innocent, prostituted woman who was murdered in Camden, NJ. The need for a proper rehabilitation and healing place was seen by a group of willing anti-traffickers. Dawn's Place grew out of their vision for that need. Praise God!
Pray for more places like Dawn's Place to continue to pop up around our world. Many of these places exist, the more we expose ourselves to them, the more help we can be to trafficked individuals. Who knows when you might cross the path of someone in need?
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