Senator Dush introduced a three-pronged approach to dealing with Human Trafficking during the Anti-Human Trafficking conference at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in October 2022. This approach includes communications/education of Human Trafficking, rescuing victims and restoration/reintegration of body and soul of survivors. This requires both funding and the legislation to support these goals.
Since January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and therefore Senator Dush produced a series of interviews (four) that he will release, one per week, during January 2023. Every Thursday, Senator Dush will have on his website a background discussion on Human Trafficking, a short bio of the Anti-Human Trafficking CEO that he is interviewing and a five-minute interview with this Human Trafficking expert.
This is the third in a series of four interviews with international experts in Human Trafficking. Today, he is interviewing Pastor Jo Lembo, Director of Faith Initiatives and National Outreach for Shared Hope International.
Pastor Jo Lembo
Director of Faith Initiatives & National Outreach
Shared Hope International
sharedhope.org
Jo Lembo began working alongside Shared Hope International in 2009, serving the organization as a recognized speaker and trainer in her position as the Director of Faith Initiatives and National Outreach, overseeing, inspiring and training nearly 1,400 trained volunteer Ambassadors of Hope nationwide. She is a licensed minister and has served the churches where they have resided the past 30 years. Her passion is to keep children safe. Together with her husband, Nick Lembo, they have fought against child sex trafficking in the USA for more than a decade.