$2.90 a week. That's what it costs to keep a girl from being sold.

In the first episode of the new Partner Highlight series on ROI Ministry: The Don't Bury It Podcast, host Tim Barker sits down with Michele Rickett — Founder and CEO of She Is Safe, a survivor of childhood abuse who has spent the last 24 years building one of the most effective gospel-centered anti-trafficking ministries in the world.

In one of the most honest conversations about money and ministry you will hear this year, Michele walks through how She Is Safe keeps girls in high-risk communities safe for less than the cost of a venti latte a week — and how that work has cut trafficking in pilot villages by 85%. She shares the story of one woman sold at age 4 for a case of beer, the husband who later said "we don't allow that here anymore," and the men who ended up donating land, baking bricks, and building the school themselves. She also opens up about her own past, the forgiveness that set her free, and the moment she looked over a fence in Africa and saw a girl being sold — and heard God say: "What are you going to do for these children of mine?"

This is the first Partner Highlight — sit-downs with the leaders of the ministries on the ROI Ministry Top 10. If you have ever wondered what a vetted, gospel-centered, auditable, impact-per-dollar ministry actually looks like in practice — this is it.

She Is Safe served 100,502 women and girls in their last audited year. They are ready to scale from 11 countries to 14 — but not without partners.

To give directly: sheissafe.org To support the work through ROI Ministry's National Christian Foundation platform (no fees, no skim): roiministry.org

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