Living in Liberty is a 12-year old non-profit founded in Pittsburgh by Elizabeth Echevarria. This organization assists women transitioning out of a life of sex trafficking by street outreach, transitional housing, awareness and prevention, and job training in their Repurposed Store in Ross Township.
Living in Liberty
Living in Liberty restores dignity, freedom, and a new life to victims of commercial sexual exploitation by creating a safe, secure, loving, and nurturing community where healing occurs and a new life begins.
They conduct street outreach in four areas of Southwestern PA Homewood/Wilkinsburg, North Side, Butler and New Kensington, connecting annually with hundreds of women being trafficked in Southwestern PA by providing a place where they can receive support while still active in the life. We provide them with hot meals, showers, laundry, personal care items and clothing. Women come for the material items Living in Liberty provides, but continue to return for the love, care and compassion that they receive while in this space.
How You Can Help
- Donate your gently used items to the Repurposed Store which goes to fund Living in Liberty’s work and provides much needed items for women.
- Prepare meals for our outreach team to serve at our drop-in centers.
- Prepare care bags of personal care items to give to the women in outreach.
- Collect/donate the item highlighted for that month for our outreach team.
- Support our fundraising events, Golf outing and Masquerade Ball.
- Donate to our Big Hearts Tiny Homes project.
- Volunteer in any aspect.
There are countless ways to get help as an individual or a business. Visit our website to learn more about how you can provide a safe and nurturing community to women in need. Please visit livinginliberty.org.
Living in Liberty is currently working to build a new facility in Southwestern PA to better serve survivors. The Tiny Homes Project will create a central community center surrounded by 10 tiny homes. This will accommodate individual survivors during the 18-month recovery program. Living in Liberty is working to raise over $3 million to support the costs associated with purchasing property, design and construction.
Story and Photography by Living in Liberty
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