Tim Tebow Details Plans To Help Tackle Human Trafficking In 2024 And Beyond

College football legend Tim Tebow, who has directed his post-football efforts towards combatting human trafficking, recently detailed what his foundation has planned for 2024.

“I’ll never forget the day my dad called me from overseas and told me he had just purchased the freedom of four young girls from traffickers. I was in my mid-20s at the time and completely unaware [of] human trafficking,” Tebow said. “Even surrounded by a group of good men while on a long-term mission trip, no one around him was willing to step in to help the girls.”

“So my dad, not wanting to leave these girls in the darkness they were in, decided to open his wallet and free the girls with the cash he had on hand,” Tebow continued. “There’s a saying that evil triumphs when good men do nothing. My dad was not going to be the man who did nothing. Had he just stood there silently, who knows where these girls would have been taken and what would have been done to them.”

“Years later, countless more human trafficking victims have been rescued around the world, ever right here in the States, because of the mission that began that day,” he added.

When he first set up the Tim Tebow Foundation more than 10 years ago, one of the first things he did was set up a leg of the nonprofit to combat human trafficking.

The foundation has now reached 30 countries, built 29 safe homes with 27 more currently under construction, led 5 USA-based operations in conjunction with law enforcement and built four USA-based safe houses. In 2023 alone, these safe houses provided over 8,000 safe nights to those rescued.

“While we are grateful for the impact we have had, I can’t help but feel that we are at a point in history–a point just like the one my dad faced years ago–where we cannot stand silently and passively watch as evil rages on,” Tebow said. “We need to go faster. We need to reach more!