City of Columbus

Local bank donates to help raise awareness around human trafficking
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Local bank donates to help raise awareness around human trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

  The Union Bank Company supports She Has A Name Thanks to the continued generosity of The Union Bank Co. we can educate more kids about how to avoid exploitation that leads to human trafficking”— Courtney Schmackers, Executive Director of She Has A Name COLUMBUS, OH, UNITED STATES, August 31, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — Each month, The Union Bank Company…

‘I was treated like a piece of meat,’ Columbus human trafficking survivor shares her story
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‘I was treated like a piece of meat,’ Columbus human trafficking survivor shares her story

ByEyes on Trafficking News

A Columbus attorney is alleging major hotel chains know or should know about sex trafficking happening on their properties, and he’s filing several lawsuits in federal court against them. One of the hotels he’s suing is Red Roof Inn, based in New Albany. According to Sgt. Dana Hess, the director of the Central Ohio Human…

Project to house trafficking victims secures funding to move forward – The Columbus Dispatch
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Project to house trafficking victims secures funding to move forward – The Columbus Dispatch

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority announced Thursday that it had secured a $15.6 million financing plan that paves the way to begin construction on an affordable housing community to serve survivors of human trafficking. The project, named Harriet’s Hope for slave-turned-abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who helped others escape slavery, is set to be built on the…

Center for human trafficking survivors coming to Ohio
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Center for human trafficking survivors coming to Ohio

ByEyes on Trafficking News

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Housing for survivors of human trafficking is coming to Columbus in 2023. A 52-unit facility called Harriet’s Hope — after Harriet Tubman, the African American woman who rescued people from slavery in the 1800s — will be a first for Columbus, Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority said in a media release. CMHA…