The Net

In 2010, The Net’s founder and a handful of passionate college students started building relationships with people experiencing homelessness. They quickly learned that because poverty is rooted in broken relationships, the people they were meeting needed friendship and a network of support more than they needed material handouts. 

Through several years of mentoring refugee youth and sharing meals and building relationships with folks experiencing homelessness, they regularly met and formed friendships with vulnerable women and girls in Fort Worth.   

While spending time with them, they repeatedly saw the ways that violence, trauma, and poverty lead to situations of sexual exploitation and trafficking. By walking alongside these women, building friendships, and hearing their stories, they began to learn how complicated the issue of sex trafficking is.

To date they’ve served over 1,000 survivors of trafficking, engaged with more than 12,000 men attempting to purchase sex, and provided dignified employment to 13 survivors.