Our Most Urgent Needs

WHY URGENT NEEDS MATTER

Opportunities to protect people and bring them to safety can arise without warning. When they do, your generosity helps IJM be ready to act. By choosing an Urgent Needs Gift, you give IJM the flexibility to direct resources where they are needed most, helping teams respond to unexpected opportunities, urgent situations and emerging forms of violence and exploitation.

When you choose an Urgent Needs Gift, you’re helping our global teams:

Respond quickly when people are in immediate danger

Support urgent and complex rescue operations

Identify people experiencing violence and help bring them to safety

Provide survivors with immediate medical care and support

Work alongside local authorities to hold perpetrators accountable

Strengthen justice systems to better protect people from violence and exploitation

Direct resources where they are needed most and can have the greatest impact

Urgent Needs - A Gift Meaningful To You

$40.00+

Provide Urgent Medical Care After Exploitation

$40.00

Protect People in a Place You Love

$50.00+

STORIES OF LIVES TRANSFORMED

Because of the generosity of supporters like you, IJM can respond when people urgently need protection. Here are stories of survivors who have experienced freedom, restoration, and hope after violence.

Freedom arrived just in time for Nikita and her baby.

For ten years, families on a rural sugarcane farm were trapped in bonded labour. Among them was 21-year-old Nikita, nine months pregnant and caring for two toddlers while being forced to do gruelling physical work. After a worker escaped and alerted authorities, 27 people, including young children, were rescued. The very next day, Nikita gave birth to her baby, this time in freedom. Today, Nikita and her family are beginning a new chapter with the support they need to move forward in safety and dignity.

518 people freed in one extraordinary rescue.

After an escaped worker reported abuse at three brick kilns in Telangana, India, authorities took action. With support from IJM, more than 40 officials, police, lawyers, and social workers responded. They found families who had endured years of bonded labour, threats and violence. By the end of the operation, 518 people, including 200 children, had been rescued, making it the second-largest rescue IJM has ever supported in India. Survivors were able to return to their hometowns while authorities began pursuing accountability against those accused of exploiting them.

When a crisis unfolded at the border, IJM was ready to respond.

More than 1,500 foreign workers crossed from Myanmar into Thailand following an operation at KK Park, a notorious hub for cyber scams and trafficking. With people from more than 28 nationalities arriving at the border, Thai authorities and NGOs faced the enormous task of identifying victims, ensuring their protection and helping them safely return home. IJM Thailand quickly deployed a team to support the response, providing translation, assisting survivors, and helping government officials screen individuals for signs of trafficking and exploitation.

Our MOST URGENT NEEDS