The Fishin’ Girl Nation Safehouse will be located on 35 acres in Central Florida—a place of healing, restoration, and uncompromising safety for women rescued from human trafficking.
This women-only safehouse will provide a secure, compassionate environment where survivors can reclaim their lives. With room for 20 single women and 5 mothers with children, the facility will be run entirely by women, with two full-time caretakers living on-site and additional support staff working off-site for maximum safety.
Every survivor will enter a nine-month, intensive program designed for complete restoration—far from the reach of traffickers, surrounded by nature, and protected by state-of-the-art lighting, sound, and security systems. We will work closely with local and national authorities to ensure each woman is rescued and restored with dignity and care. These women are not statistics—they are mothers, daughters, wives, and children whose lives were stolen. Our mission is to give them back their voice, their safety, and their future.
Phase One: Purchasing and Securing the Land
Phase One focuses on the purchase of up to 35 acres of undeveloped land in a remote, safe, and secure location—laying the foundation for the Fishin’ Girl Nation Safehouse. This phase will cover all associated costs, including purchase fees, surveys, soil and ground testing, zoning, planning, legal and insurance
expenses, and realtor fees. It will also provide for essential infrastructure such as electricity, water, sewage, utilities, and internet/phone installation, along with basic grading, easement purchases, access road development, minimal internal roads, and key exterior lighting for security. In addition, Phase One funding will include the initial stages of blueprint development. Together, these steps will ensure the property is secured, functional, and ready for full-scale development.
Safehouse Women-Only Programs:
- Healing: Medical care as needed, pastoral care and counseling, and women-led chapel services only from a Christian perspective.
- Independence: Self-defense training, including boxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. We will also offer gun safety and firing training, along with archery and fishing, all within the safe and secure property.
- Development: Job training, assistance with school and college courses, business training, and non-profit training to provide options for their future. We will also offer art and music classes.
- Care: A barn with at least one horse and housed within their own smaller compound. We will have trained dogs for both safety and companionship. Women will have a garden to plant and grow flowers and their vegetables. There will also be a chicken coop.
- Nature: A secure wooded area for natural relaxation, along with a walking trail within the fenced-in 10-acre area. Additionally, we will have a 1.3-acre pond with a walking trail and a dock through Phase 2. Phase 3 will include additional pond acreage. The pond, walking trail, and dock will be well-lit with motion sensors/lighting and cameras for security.
- Amenities: A full-time kitchen, a non-alcoholic café for coffee, tea, and specialty lattes, a gym, a massage area with a professional female massage therapist, and an area for a styling salon.
Help us reach the goal!
Fishin' Girl Nation Safehouse is a program of the Fishin' Girl Catch and Release Initiative, Inc.
We need your support to make this safehouse a reality. Donate today to change a woman's life forever.
Donations will be used to advance our mission, including the development of our safehouse project, program support, outreach/campaign marketing, women’s fishing events, and organizational sustainability. Contributions of any amount are sincerely appreciated.
All donations made to
Fishin' Girl Nation Catch and Release Initiative, Inc. (DBA: Fishin' Girl Nation Safehouse), a Florida-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, are tax-deductible under IRS guidelines. *No goods or services can be provided in exchange for donations to the nonprofit.
PHASE 1:
Acquisition of up to 35 acres, including surveys, soil and site testing, planning, zoning, legal, insurance, and realtor fees. Initial development will cover mild land clearing, property assessment, fencing (10 acres), utilities (power, water, sewage, well, electrical, internet/phone), lighting, internal gravel roads, and
site infrastructure.
Total for Phase 1: $875,000.00
Ways to Donate:
Use the DonorBox giving portal below or one of the following donation methods:
- Checks: Fishin’ Nation Safehouse and send to the address at the bottom of the page.
- Zelle: FishinGirlFreedom@gmail.com
- PayPal: FishinGirlFreedom@gmail.com
(*Please note for all payment options that “Fishin” doesn’t have a “g”)
Our Executive Director & Board
Our Director: Dr. Andy Sanders, Ed.D.
Drs. Andy and Cathy Sanders bring decades of ministry and publishing experience; each holds a doctorate in Christian education. They both have served as ministers. Their work has taken them to 28 states and seven countries. As writers and publishers, they’ve contributed to Charisma Media, Ministry Today, and Spiritual Insights, while guiding projects with NFL players, New York Times best-sellers, Amazon #1-ranked authors, and emerging pastors worldwide.
With proven expertise in storytelling, project execution, and multifaceted media, Andy also draws on his pastoral background, making him a powerful advocate for survivors of human trafficking.