International Crisis Aid Inc

The U.S. Refuge Home first opened in December of 2012 in Missouri and was the very first holistic home and safe haven specifically for American female survivors of sex trafficking.

In partnership with other service organizations, since day one we have provided trauma-based care and holistic healing services for both adults and minors. Showered with love, care, safety, support, health, prayer and opportunity these girls truly have the tools to not only survive but thrive in the face of all the horrible things done to them.

The home provides trafficked little girls and young women with not only a warm safe place to live but additional support in the form of professional counseling, life skills classes, access to critical medical and community resources and eventually, healing. We are committed to each girl and the new life she deserves.

Since December 2012, through the U.S. Refuge Home, our partners have enabled us to help more than 205 girls rescued from sexual slavery.

Crisis Aid built and opened our Girl's Home in February 2009. Our Home is located on the outskirts of the capital Addis Ababa. It is home for up to 60 girls who have been orphaned and have no one else to care for them. When they come to their new home, the children receive food, shelter, schooling and vocational training. The orphanage is run in a family format where house parents take care of children replicating a family environment. The Home is the first phase of a long-term community development program. We do not adopt girls out of the home per our agreement with the local government.

In February 2008, Crisis Aid had the grand opening of our Medical Clinic in a remote village in East Africa. This was once a government-run medical facility that offered sub standard care to the community because of severe budget shortfalls. By taking over this clinic, Crisis Aid has established medical outposts where we can treat people living too far from the clinic. For the first time in this region, the community of more than 140,000 men, women and children has access to quality health care.

Since 2008, Crisis Aid has treated more than 266,000 people at our medical clinic alone. We treat an average of 3,100 patients every month, which includes malaria, TB, prenatal care, deliveries, family planning, HIV testing, vaccinations and more. We also provide health education classes.

Together, we are providing food for people in desperate need every day. Since 2002 Crisis Aid has provided more than 92.7 million meals in East Africa and has fed over 2.250,000 people, including more than 223,600 severely malnourished children who would have likely not survived without Crisis Aid.

Thank you for being an answer to prayer for these precious children. You are a vitally important part of a team of dedicated people making it possible to save lives, save souls and change futures.

We use a measuring tool that UNICEF and WFP use to measure program beneficiaries Middle Upper Arm Circumference to record their degree of malnutrition and to measure their improvement while in our programs

Crisis Aid began our "Safe Campaign” by rescuing our first girl from a red light district in December 2006. In March 2007, we opened our first home for young girls we rescued from red light districts of Addis Ababa, East Africa. We now operate multiple Safe Homes in East Africa--called Refuge Homes. We have provided services to more than 1800 girls in our East Africa Refuge Homes. Girls rescued in East Africa range from 9-40 years old.

Once they are rescued and taken to their new home, girls receive food, shelter, clothing, emotional and spiritual counseling, educational opportunities, vocational training, medical care, and more.

We currently average 24 girls in our East Africa Safe Homes. We also have more than 40 girls in our Phase 2 program, meaning they graduated the Safe Homes and are living independently while working, finishing school, and continuing to receive case management, counseling, and more.

Community Helping Community was born in response to the vulnerable and millions who have lost their jobs and the ability to provide for their family in light of COVID -19.

We bring hope, dignity, and tangible expressions of Love to empower individuals, families, and other organizations to do the same.

Crisis Aid is equipping members of the community with a door-opening tool to help each other. People now have the power to help those around them with supplemental quality groceries. They are able to connect with their neighbors, friends, and whole communities as well.

Our goal is to see whole communities transformed by individuals stepping out and doing more; more for family, more for friends, and more for the entire community.

Although we operate multiple Refuge homes in East Africa, there are never enough beds for the number of girls praying to be rescued from red-light districts. So in March 2010, Crisis Aid bought a property that was once used as a brothel in the red-light district. Mercy Chapel is being used as a church, counseling center and vocational training center for the tens of thousands of young girls forced to sell their bodies every day just to survive.

The vocational training program is a one-year commitment where girls have the opportunity to learn hairdressing, silk screen printing, computers, weaving, leather crafts, and sewing. We are also working with a government program for job placement upon graduation.

The vocational training program is a one-year commitment where girls have the opportunity to learn hairdressing, silk screen printing, computers, weaving, and sewing. We are also working with a government program for job placement upon graduation.

Providing water wells is one part of a holistic community development model being implemented by Crisis Aid in East Africa.

Crisis Aid began implementing a program in 2008 to provide people living in remote villages with clean water. Crisis Aid has already provided 48 water wells in East Africa. Each location of the wells was the first time the people in the surrounding areas have had to get clean water.

Our goal for one community is to provide a total of 90 deepwater wells to provide clean water for the entire community. You can sponsor a well for $13,000 and we will place a plaque in your honor.

CAPP is a revolutionary new collaborative initiative that focuses on reaching children at risk for sex trafficking or other forms of child sexual abuse. C.A.P.P. provides advocacy, resources, and support to children and families identified in internet/electronics-related crimes against children and human trafficking investigations. C.A.P.P. provides tools such as assistance accessing Internet Safety Education (ISE) programs to help parents of children engaged in high-risk sexual activities online, activities that leave them vulnerable to trafficking or other forms of sexual abuse.

Our team of full-time staff embedded with 6 police units across Missouri and Michigan have already served more than 645 people in immediate need since the end of 2018.

Statistically, 194 of the 323 individuals enrolled in CAPP (sample in 2020) will experience child sexual victimization such as child sex trafficking without CAPP intervention or similar services.