Your gift supports emergency care for families in crisis and for victims of sex trafficking in North Carolina. My Refuge City provides food, clothing, furniture, transportation assistance, and crisis relief services to the homeless and hurting. We also offer short-term triage care for victims of sex trafficking and exploitation.
Your donations go directly to help victims and pay operating expenses for MRC. We are staffed 100% by volunteers.
It's an urgent need.
With thousands of sex trafficking victims in the United States every year, there are only 600 beds available nationwide for them after rescue. The existing organizations in NC are struggling to meet needs. Even when they manage to rescue a victim, there is no short-term housing in our area equipped specifically for this type of crisis care.
Our long-term vision is to secure a home or apartment that we can use for safe, private emergency care for survivors in the first few days and weeks after they escape.
Victims who do not receive adequate care in the first 72 hours are far more likely to return to traffickers.
Long-term facilities rarely have openings and if they do, the admissions process can be long and tedious. While they look for an open bed, most organizations temporarily put victims in hotels, domestic violence shelters, or local homeless housing - none of which are prepared to deal with this specialized trauma.
She is someone's daughter, someone's sister, someone's friend. She deserves a safe place to heal.
My Refuge City, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All gifts are tax deductible.