Who We Are
1DivineLine2Health is a 501(c)3 public charity. It is 100% community funded & solution driven in the trenches. We have two safe houses, a community garden, and the Love Drop-In Center. We need more safe houses for pregnant womxn, transwomxn, and runaway youth. We need 3 more Love Drop-In Centers and 2 more Love Bugs to serve our Street Family in the four corners of Columbus beyond the West Side.
Our Mission
The people we serve are not prostitutes; they are destitute people who lack love. They come from all over the U.S. and are homeless and somebody’s child, sibling, or parent. They are human beings who crave a purpose-driven-life, and need compassionate messengers to redirect them to a path of wholeness. Since most of the victims are womxn we call them “Street Sisters.” Our Love tribe has become a Foster Family to those we serve.
The compassionate messengers and partners make up our Love Tribe. They touch lives on the alleys, streets, homeless camps, and abandoned houses. We provide tangible love by gathering and distributing clothes, hygiene products, condoms, medical supplies, Narcan, and food. We also provide a warm and safe space in the Love Bug (Red commercial Vehicle) or at the Drop-In Center. During the spring and summer we need volunteers to help plant flowers, fruits, and veggies in our Hilltop Butterfly Garden. We need volunteers to assist in the annual 24 hour “Camping In the Hood is Good” event where our children experience a real camping event under the Columbus Blue Sky.
What is Human Trafficking?
According to the US Department of Justice, human trafficking is “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. (22 U.S.C. § 7102(9)).” At any age a person can be exploited in different forms by being forced into prostitution, labor, begging, criminality, domestic servitude, marriage, and organ harvesting while being drugged in the process.
Esther’s Definition: An internal and external assault to God’s most precious creation, the human being.
The Facts
The public statistics captured by various organizations and/or groups regarding human trafficking are chronically under-reported. Every 30 secs someone is being trafficked and it denies freedom to over 30 million adults and over 13 million children around the world. The average age a teen enters the sex trade is between 12-14 years of age. Many are runaways and were sexually abused. We have seen on the West Side 9-year-old girls being trafficked. We work with pregnant human trafficking victims who fear having prenatal care because they self-medicate with illicit drugs. Our nonjudgmental approach allows us to connect them to Primary Care One for prenatal services.
This criminal industry makes over $150 billion internationally annually and over $32 billion is generated in the United States. The perpetrators rarely get prosecuted. They are members of an elite squad of high-ranking officials from judges, attorneys, law enforcement agencies, sport league owners, senators, physicians, pastors, school principals, and billionaires from famous corporations fueling this crime against humanity.
No matter where you live, human trafficking is happening nearby or even in your backyard. It exists inside and outside of the United States. It exists in the four corners of Ohio. However, on Sullivant Ave located on the Columbus West Side it has become the epicenter of human and drug trafficking and other types of criminal activities. According to the U.S. Constitution, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in 1865, yet the current number of human trafficking victims is much higher than both the Atlantic Slave Trade and all the death in wars combined.
The Hilltop is the fastest growing area in Franklin County and accessible to highways which makes human trafficking possible. This community is a beautiful mosaic of diverse people; it is the home of indigenous Hispanics, African tribes, and Appalachians. Unfortunately, sexual violence is kept silent in these cultures. There are undocumented women being trafficked and fear calling cops due to their fear of being deported. 1DivineLine2Health seeks a harm reduction approach by meeting the human trafficking victims where they are at in the “trenches” first locally and then abroad.
We Are Columbus, Ohio
A group of West Siders and community activists gather in solidarity with Donna Dalton’s family commemorating the one year anniversary of her murder by a Columbus Police Dept. vice cop.
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Columbus is the home for people in search of knowledge by several prestigious colleges and universities. It has become a world bank to financial institutions. A smart city in the Midwest. Unfortunately, a powerful few chose to make ineffective decisions by excluding the frontliners who serve in the impoverished neighborhoods that are food deserts with deteriorating schools. As a result, we see the neglect and an increase death toll of innocent lives on the West Side. We see the highest infant mortality rate – over twice the national average, the highest crime and eviction rates, and the highest number of abandoned properties of all of Columbus neighborhoods. A 2018 research study by the University of Toronto on large metropolitan cities found that Columbus has the second-highest rate of economic segregation in the nation. We see that economic development is at the forefront by our city and state officials, instead of human development.
Nationally Ohio ranks 4th for Human Trafficking and 2nd for Opiate Overdoses. On the Hilltop, where we are located, both issues run rampant and even affect young, school-aged children who become orphans and a part of the overburdened foster care system. Our goal is to expose the truth and rely on community support for our endeavors to create a healthy, safe, and clean Columbus. We use Love as a remedy to save the most resilient lives who are destitute, forgotten, and lost due to the lack of love.
Support Our Mission
We have witnessed countless stories of womxn grateful for our street outreach and Drop-In Center they are sober and out of Columbus. Their haven was the Love Bug and Drop-In Center. You may not be able to spend time in the trenches however, you can still join our Love Tribe. Please support our just cause through volunteering and see the return of investment as we save lives from harm’s way.