By Lisa Deaderick, The San Diego Tribune, December 22, 2019
Marjorie Saylor remembers a woman who was looking for help leaving her trafficker. The woman was pregnant and waiting for a bed at a shelter to open up, but she had to wait on the street, alone and in the cold. Her trafficker found her and took her with him.
“I never heard from her again. She only had a week left to go before her bed opened up, but the two weeks she toughed it out waiting on the street kept her in harm’s reach,” says Saylor, who is a survivor of human trafficking. “After that, I knew I could not go another day without addressing the emergency shelter crisis and formed The Well Path within the next month.”
The Well Path is a nonprofit focused on preventing a return to a life of exploitation by providing emergency shelter to survivors of human trafficking, along with peer support groups, diversion programs, financial and educational support and other resources.
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