A small group of women in trucking and logistics have founded a nonprofit organization to help human trafficking victims. HDT Editor and Associate Publisher Deborah Lockridge talks to Gift of Freedom co-founder Sharon Siar about the initiative, its inspiration, its goals, and how people can help. 

"We're just taking it one step at a time, and one child at a time, because that's what our focus is, is just helping a child just recover and live a normal life free of abuse."

In this episode:

• The lack of post-rescue services for trafficking survivors

• The Founding of Gift of Freedom

• The role of transportation in human trafficking

• Trafficking isn't just cartels

• The mental toll on child human trafficking victims

• What Gift of Freedom is doing

• How people can support the organization

• Raising awareness among families and communities

• Working with trucking and transportation groups