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Be a light for justice
ALIGHT helps remove legal barriers to help human trafficking survivors and their children rejoin our community. 
About ALIGHT
ALIGHT is an MIT-award-winning and Guidestar/Candid-accredited 501(c)(3) nonprofit that connects children, women and men who have suffered human trafficking to free legal help at a critical point in their recovery. To help survivors finally escape the exploitation cycle, ALIGHT matches them to the right attorney at the right time enabling them to overcome legal problems that are insurmountable alone.
Join us in helping survivors to successfully gain independence and rebuild their lives in our community.
See ALIGHT’s impact for yourself
For every $1 donated, a survivor directly receives ~$3 in legal value.
Data as of October 2024.
652
Legal cases
1,630
Legal network attorneys
2,500,000
Legal value directly to survivors
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Every human trafficking survivor deserves true freedom. Help remove the legal obstacles in their way. Your support connects survivors to a mobilized army of attorneys across the U.S. Join us to impact survivors’ lives – at scale!
“Human rights that exist only in theory are nothing more than mirages in a desolate desert.”
This report was co-published by Avery and the NSL Collective in July 2021 based on the Avery research team’s extensive outreach to 550 organizations from across the country that advertise their legal services to sex trafficking survivors. The report demonstrated that direct legal representation is concentrated in high density urban areas, essentially making most of the U.S. a legal desert. ALIGHT is one of 16 organizations in the entire country that could confirm it provides legal services focused on human trafficking survivors.
The Legal Deserts Report was co-published by the Avery Center and the NSL Collective.
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