World Hope International (WHI) is a faithbased relief and development agency that seeks to alleviate suffering and injustice around the world. One of World Hope\'s programmatic missions is to prevent trafficking in persons and to protect people who have been victims of trafficking. Since 1996, World Hope has been working in trafficking prevention activities such as economic development for women, education for the least privileged, community health initiatives, HIV/AIDS prevention, and home based care for people afflicted with AIDS. In 2003, WHI began a focused effort to address slavery and trafficking in regions where our programs intersect with particularly dire trafficking conditions.