Run for Courage is a nonprofit organization that combats human trafficking. The organization is based in

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, and raises money for

human trafficking Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extr ...

victims and their families. Ashlie Bryant is the executive director of Run for Courage. The founder was Vicki Zito, whose daughter was abducted at age seventeen and sexually trafficked in the

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. The organization was founded in 2009 and holds a charity run annually, raising more than $550,000 (~$ in ) within its first four years. In 2010, the funds raised were donated to Courage House, a building in

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, that houses teen sex trafficking victims. Approximately 2000 people participated in the 2011 run. That year, the funds raised went to

Agape International Missions Agape International Missions (AIM) is a nonnonprofit, non-denominational, non-governmental organization working to rescue, heal and empower survivors of sex trafficking in Cambodia. It has staff in California and Southeast Asia and carries out h ...

, A New Day For Children, Courage To Be You, and WIND Youth Services. In 2014, FreeFall Stage produced performances of ''

She Has a Name ''She Has a Name'' is a play about human trafficking written by Andrew Kooman in 2009 as a single act and expanded to full length in 2010. It is about the trafficking of children into sexual slavery and was inspired by the deaths of 54 people in ...

'', a play about human trafficking, and Run for Courage partnered in this initiative, having representatives at each performance.

References

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