The Institute to Combat Trafficking is hoping to bring attention to trafficking and fight against it, News4SA reported.

The nonprofit was founded by Kirsta Leeburg Melton and Mallory Myers Vincent in the hopes of being a weapon against human trafficking, the news agency reported. Both Melton and Vincent are former prosecutors.

"People should not be forced into labor or forced into sex. That's the essence of human trafficking,” Melton told the news agency.

Vincent and Melton worked both as county prosecutors and then worked with the Attorney General's Office, the news agency reported.

"Oftentimes, we saw at the Attorney General’s office there are victims who aren't reporting or they're giving a partial report and officers maybe don't have the time or the training to take that small outcry and turn it into a larger case,” Vincent told the news agency.

Melton and Vincent told the news agency that human trafficking is underserved because victims don't self-identify, which makes it hard to fight.