RESCUE 1 GLOBAL
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Mission Statement
Counter Human Trafficking and Provide Holistic Restoration.
About This Cause
Rescue 1 is a pioneer and global leader in Counter human trafficking. In seven years, Rescue 1 has opened 3 Safe Homes, started 6 Community Outreach Programs, Launched 3 Awareness and Prevention Programs including acquiring the leadership of a Preschool to underprivileged and marginalized children, advise and serve in 3 Department of Education Departments, collaborate with 10 Law Enforcement Agencies, and sit on 3 Human Trafficking Task Force Committees around the world. Rescue 1 has demonstrated the importance of Community Driven and Biblically-based Solutions to Prevent Victimization, Rescue the endangered and enslaved and Restore Survivors. Rescue 1 is now regarded as one of the leading anti-human trafficking ministries in the United States (South Atlantic & East South Central), Thailand (Phayao, Chiang Kham, & Chiang Rai) and Philippines (Mindanao Island) and growing as a resource to multiple more States across the country and Provinces in both Thailand and Philippines. RESCUE 1 (R1) was a simple awareness and action campaign seeking to expose and combat slavery and human trafficking. Birthed in the hearts of missionaries, Daniel and Lacy Henson Tolar, R1 became a reality under the covering of Compassionate Hope Foundation and its founder, Dr. Al Henson. Now, Rescue 1 Global is its own 501(c)(3) organization, Prevention, Rescue and Restoration mission and force in the Anti-trafficking world. The Tolar’s have lived and traveled many places in Asia. It was in these places that they came face-to-face with not just the horrific stories of trafficking they had heard about but now saw the faces, held the hands and wiped the tears of those who were being trafficked (whom they rescued) and those who were once trafficked . As they visited the “recruiting fields” and researched the factors that contribute to the perpetuation of slavery and human trafficking, they discovered that culture, community ignorance and acceptance, abuse, abandonment, addiction, and adversity keep communities vulnerable to predators. They discovered that parents or grandparents struggling to provide will have children complete their schooling by the 4th – 6th grade and then force them to start working to provide for the family. Many will choose to send them with a recruiter to work as housekeepers or waitresses, not knowing that, once there, their children will be forced into the industry. After a survey trip to Northeast Thailand in early 2011, the Tolar’s became convinced this was where Rescue 1 should start its first targeted mission. This area leads the world as a place where children are lured, bought, tricked and stolen into the sex slavery industry. Here the Tolar’s found nationals who also were burdened with the vision to address this injustice. So, the Tolar’s began to lead, serve and undergird them with support and resources. Shortly after the founding of R1, the Tolar’s quickly became more and more aware of how widespread slavery and human trafficking is in the United States of America. They began to encounter and engage children and women “across the street” who were endangered and enslaved. They began to find others working around the southeast regions in the US and grew in knowledge and firsthand experience. The Tolar’s discovered the drastic cultural and contextual difference between trafficking in Asia and the domestic US. They discovered that few organizations had a holistic and strategic solution to identify and expose slavery/trafficking, bring justice to buyers and traffickers, to raise awareness in professional, private and public communities, and to educate and mobilize healthy, trauma-informed individuals and communities to serve, care for, mentor and encourage survivors to flourish in recovery and overcoming. The more they served this population the more they discovered that women and children here in the U.S. deserve the same opportunity to find a safe place of hope, healing and a pathway for a healthy future as those they served internationally. They further discovered the pathway of servant / mentor / volunteer engagement is not meant to be easy because of the levels of severe trauma victims endure is not navigable for a wounded, good-hearted person or a novice. They discovered the need for strategic community driven, biblically based solutions EVERYWHERE, was and is, great and overwhelming. Now, Rescue 1 has exceedingly grown in this passionate desire for change and it has spilled over into the rest of the world specifically the Philippines, Central & South America and, especially, right here in the United States of America. With Task Force, Reach 1, Mission 1, Community Action Teams, with Prevention, Rescue and Restoration programs and with Law Enforcement Agency, Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, other Governmental agencies and partner organization collaboration Rescue 1 sees how it can and will swing the number out of the millions and help set the stage for global abolition of slavery and human trafficking!” R1 has a rich history in working deep in the underground world of human trafficking. R1 has worked in many places in Southeast Asia where it came face-to-face with traffickers, facilitators and systems that protect trafficking and trafficking victims, both children and adults. R1 has always responded immediately to gather admissible evidence to prosecute traffickers and to hold the hands and wiped the tears of those rescued. R1 has launched and continues to launch outreach teams in the “recruiting fields” to eliminate vulnerabilities, prevent victimization and identify the trafficked. R1 has researched the factors that contribute to the perpetuation of slavery and human trafficking such as culture, poverty, community ignorance, community acceptance, abuse, abandonment, addiction, and adversity that keep communities vulnerable to predators. R1 used these evidence based findings to develop community and state risk assessment tools to better identify vulnerable and victimized individuals/communities, to direct outreach placement, and to assist in the creation of a survivor's personalized recovery and development plan. In the beginning, R1 started as an awareness campaign seeking to expose, respond to and combat slavery and human trafficking in Southeast Asia and to generate funds, direct care providers and advocates. R1 quickly became aware of how widespread the issue of human trafficking was, and still is, in the USA and immediately amended its focus as an awareness campaign into an awareness and action initiative based organization. R1 discovered that few organizations had a holistic and strategic solution to identify and expose trafficking, bring justice to buyers and traffickers, to raise awareness in professional, private and public communities, and to educate and mobilize healthy, trauma-informed individuals and communities to serve, care for, mentor, and encourage survivors to flourish in recovery and overcoming. Although R1 discovered drastic cultural and contextual differences in human trafficking between Southeast Asia and the U.S., Rescue 1 discovered two significant strengths. First, R1s global knowledge and experience better positioned it to immediately understand and identify human trafficking, traffickers, vulnerable populations and victims in diverse communities inside the U.S. context. Second, although implemented culturally appropriate, the methodologies learned and implemented to prevent, rescue and restore in Southeast Asia were identical in the U.S. allowing R1 to provide immediate and competent trauma informed care to victims. This was especially valuable in a U.S. restoration context do to U.S. trafficking victim populations being comprised of diverse cultures. The more R1 served the U.S. context the more the organization discovered that women and children here should be afforded the same opportunity to a safe place of hope, healing and a pathway for a healthy future as did those it serves in Southeast Asia. Not many organizations were meeting the great need for immediate housing with quality, trauma informed program care paired with a strategic community driven engagement for sustainable reintegration. Once, R1 identified that housing and a restoration program was the largest gap in the country for trafficked minor victims it committed to eliminate this gap by creating and opening Grace Oasis: Nashville. R1 has always been committed to providing victims of human trafficking with a healthy pathway to restoration through survivor to caregiver engagements. R1 knows that being a direct care providers, advocates and volunteers is not easy because of the levels of compound complex trauma each victim endures is not navigable for a novice. R1 is protective of its survivors and passionate about sustainable . With Task Force, Reach 1, Mission 1, Community Action Teams, with Prevention, Rescue and Restoration programs and with Law Enforcement Agency, Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, other Governmental agencies and partner organization collaboration Rescue 1 sees how it can and will swing the number out of the millions and help set the stage for global abolition of slavery and human trafficking!”