Beloved Haven sets up first of many planned outreach van stops to assist human trafficking survivors
- Corinne Saunders
- 3 days ago
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Beloved Haven staffers Stephanie Benton, Janon Hughes and Tracy Harvey (l-r) set up the mobile outreach van in Elizabeth City the morning of Tuesday, May 20, 2025. Tina Pennington, Beloved Haven founder and executive director, is not pictured as she is out of town. (Photo by Corinne Saunders)
By Corinne Saunders
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ELIZABETH CITY — Tuesday morning in Elizabeth City, three women with Beloved Haven, a Currituck County-based nonprofit, set up a mobile outreach van in the first of many planned regional stops to serve women who are survivors of or who are vulnerable to human trafficking.
“We’re really kind of targeting, like, our transient population, our homeless population…women in active addiction and just any one of the vulnerable-to-being-exploited or has-been-exploited, just so that they know that they have options and that there’s resources out there to help them,” Programs Coordinator Stephanie Benton said.
Beloved Haven this year marks a decade as the region’s only organization wholly devoted to assisting human trafficking survivors in northeastern North Carolina counties from Dare to Chowan and beyond as needed.
Last year, the nonprofit provided about 48 women with direct services, Benton said.
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