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BECOME AN ABOLITIONIST

Fight against slavery today –- and everyday.

• KNOWLEDGE – The fight against human trafficking begins with knowledge.  Educate yourself; educate others - the fight begins with you.  Learning about human trafficking, the forms of existing slavery, and the efforts to combat trafficking are vital first steps in the anti-trafficking movement.  Next, inform others:  family, children, parents, friends, and co-workers.  Be sure that they not only know about trafficking, but are also aware that it can happen anywhere in the world - including America.  And it doesn’t just affect women and girls; it can and does affect men and boys as well.  This degradation isn’t limited to any social or economic class, religion, country, race, ethnicity, sex, gender, or age.  Anyone can potentially fall prey.  Being aware will help keep both you and others safe in addition to preventing trafficking before it begins and therefore depleting the traffickers’ supply.  Being aware of the dangers can save lives, including your own.  Click here to learn more about human trafficking.

• DONATE - Consider making a donation.  You don’t have to give much - the price of a lottery ticket, a fast food sandwich, a movie.  By donating today, you can make an incredible and sustaining impact on the life of a trafficking survivor.  While many anti-trafficking efforts are free, funds are still needed to provide innocent survivors with vital medical and social life-saving services.  Fortunately there are generous professionals who are willing to offer pro-bono services, but the need exceeds the supply.  Please help us replace all that’s been taken from these innocents through slavery and deprivation by offering them the chance of a healthy, happy, and hopeful life.  Please consider saving a life and offering hope today by donating.

• ENROLL - Enroll in our Professionals Giving Network.  If you provide a medical or social service vital to the restoration of human trafficking survivors, please consider donating your time and services today.  Without these valuable services, trafficking victims will be less likely to successfully reintegrate back into our communities.  Through our Professionals Giving Network, your generosity and compassion can restore a trafficking survivor and save a promising life.  If you provide an essential service, trafficking survivors need your help now.  Click here to be added to our Professionals Giving Network for pro bono or discounted services.

• NEWSLETTER - Sign up for our newsletter.  It’s a great source of information to educate yourself as well as others.  Encourage your family and friends to sign up for our newsletter or forward it on to them.  Keep yourself informed of regular anti-trafficking efforts and successes by clicking here.

• VIGILANCE - Be vigilant.  Learn to identify human trafficking victims:  commercial sex workers, domestic servants, child soldiers, beggars, manual laborers, sweatshops workers, forced organ donors, and children used for land mine removal.  You can save a life at any point anywhere.  You can spot a girl in trouble, a woman being held against her will, a person trafficked from another country for domestic servitude, or a boy being prostituted.  Too often we turn away, refuse to trust our instincts, believe there’s nothing we can do - but YOU can make a difference.  You can rescue a life today; you can save a person tomorrow.  You can make a difference by simply being observant of your surroundings and vigilant in recognizing the signs of human trafficking.  To learn more about identifying human trafficking victims and situations, click here.

• STAND - Take a stand today.  Decide that you will oppose human trafficking in any form.  Buy fair-trade, slave-free, and sweat-free products and oppose commercial sex.  Taking a stand against the exploitation of others can spare millions of people immeasurable pain by driving down the demand for trafficked persons.  Decrease the demand for slaves by opposing slave derived products.

• PETITION - Start a petition in your community, create an email campaign, or send a personal letter to your state and federal legislators.  Let them know that you and your community support anti-trafficking efforts, trafficking legislation and penalties, and greater trafficking victim assistance funding.  One person can effect change.  But united, we are stronger.  Make a stand today; be part of a united voice.

• VOLUNTEER - Volunteer in your local community.  There are many worthwhile organizations that are dedicated to human rights and specifically to the eradication of slavery.  Most offer opportunities to get involved through grassroots initiatives, email campaigns, lobbying efforts, fundraising, community outreach and much more.  There is always work to be done, and helping hands are needed.  Volunteering is a great way to show support and effect change in the issues you care about most.  It also allows you to meet like-minded individuals who share your passion, concern, and dedication.  Please volunteer today.