Free To Fly

Our purpose is to raise awareness and help intervene on behalf of children, adolescents and adults forced or coerced into sexual slavery or commercial sexual exploitation. We are committed to our purpose, and with the help of our partners and donors, we support survivors of human trafficking on their journey toward a better life.

SUPPORT: We step in to join survivors during their healing process, whether it's volunteering our time to support on an emotional level, chaplaincy, laptops for continuing education, mentorship classes, gap assistance, care packages, coming alongside partner organizations and providing program goal-based incentives, or acting as a non-governmental community-based advocate with the King County CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children) Task Force in Washington state, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or the U.S. Department of Justice.

HEALING: When thinking of human trafficked victims, we initially consider the emotional state of the survivor; but just as emotional healing is important, physical healing is also an essential part of recovery. As an esthetician, our founder uses her background to address and improve issues on survivors’ skin to help them reclaim their bodies.

SELF-ESTEEM: We have learned that self-esteem, self-care, and self-love are intertwined and that one always leads to the other; so we focus here. Through 100% pass through of all donations received and the net proceeds from product sales, we provide survivors with free skin consultations and services, and we gift them with their own personal cosmetic bag that is filled with luxurious, medical-grade corrective skincare products, supplements, and other gifts.

FREEDOM: We have seen how the permanence of a branding tattoo, that may have served as a punishment or sign of ownership, overpowers the true freedom of victims. Because no survivor should ever have to live with this type of public reminder on their body, we assist recovering victims with tattoo removal to help empower them so that one day they may be Free To Fly again.

Free To Fly is a survivor led non-profit organization standing on the front lines, shoulder to shoulder with survivors, and filling the gaps since day one in 2018.

On March 24, 2023, Free To Fly celebrated its 5th Anniversary. Looking back over the past 5 years gave us an opportunity to reflect on where we started, where we have come, and where we plan to go over the next 5 years.

We continue to volunteer our time to support survivors on an emotional level by monitoring our phone/text line, offering one-on-one consultation and mentoring, peer group support, sponsoring 8-week emotional and spiritual one-on-one coaching sessions with Dr. Sandra Anderson, author of Lessons from the Thorns: His Grace is Sufficient.

We also continue to provide tangible support such as food, clothing, housing assistance, relocation services, laptops for continuing education, mental health support literature, and more.

Additionally, we continue coming alongside partner organizations and providing mentorship classes, program goal-based incentives, care packages filled with medical-grade corrective skincare products, supplements, and other gifts, as well as staff appreciation support.

During 2023 we also continued to support the King County CSEC (Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children) Task Force in Washington state as an authorized non-governmental community-based advocate, established a more stable footing in San Diego County in California by becoming an approved nonprofit joining San Diego Gives, supported the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice on a number of human trafficking cases, as well as started developing our one-on-one empowerment course to help survivors realize their full potential by building the skills they will need to be their best, develop the vision and confidence they want, and reap the personal and professional rewards they desire.