Care Package Program Partnerships

Thank you for your interest in supporting The Avery Center Care Package Program!

In 2014, as a domestic trafficking survivor, Megan Lundstrom founded The Avery Center (known then as Free Our Girls) to serve commercially sexually exploited women and girls in the rural communities of northern Colorado. Since then, the organization has provided hundreds of service provider referrals to victims across the country and walked alongside hundreds more in their journeys to freedom.

Beginning in 2017, the organization began sending monthly care packages to women identified as currently experiencing trafficking, sending a total of 200 care packages over that year. In 2018, we sent over 600 care packages, and nearly 1,000 care packages to victims and survivors of commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking across North America in 2019.

As this initiative has grown, The Avery Center began to recognize the importance of ensuring an ethical supply chain in the items in each care package: it is counterproductive to purchase items made by exploited people in other countries to reach exploited people domestically. For that reason, one of the key goals this year is to transition entirely to Fair Trade Certified items in the care packages that go out each month. In addition to this decision to improve the organization’s consumption impact, and due to the program’s marked success in ability to build trusting, open relationships with the women identified to receive packages, the program needs ongoing partnerships with Fair Trade Certified partners.

Each care package contains items that focus on self-care and well-being, in addition to a hand-written note of encouragement as well as a brochure with The Avery Center's services. The contents of each month’s care packages average $10 per recipient, and typically range from one to four items totaling this amount. Additionally, to keep postage expenses minimal, we work to keep packages under 16 ounces.

We would be honored if your organization would like to partner with us in this initiative by providing an in-kind donation of 100 products for one month of care packages this year. We recognize the generosity of such a donation and enjoy publicly acknowledging our partners by recognizing them on our Facebook page followed by 2,000 passionate allies, and our e-newsletter mailing list of over 3,000 donors, volunteers, and professionals active in anti-trafficking work.

As an example, recent care packages have included Bee Bella lip balm, Choice Organic tea, West Elm wool socks, Coco Kind skincare products, and a snack made by Nana D’s Crackle Corn, one of our local Colorado partners.

Should partnering with our Care Package Program align with your vision and mission, please know that we are a registered 501(c)3 non-profit, and can provide documentation as such upon request. Items for our care packages can be mailed to The Avery Center, at which time we will provide your company with an in-kind donation receipt acknowledging the gift.

We truly believe that ethical supply chains are a part of ending human trafficking at the global level, and see an incredible synergy when like-minded companies partner with The Avery Center as we empower individuals from creation to consumption. Thank you for your part in eradicating exploitative practices, and we hope that partnering with us will further both our efforts for a better future for people around the world.