Unbound Movement

 

Your Next Step

You’ve learned. You’ve prayed. Now it’s time to act.

We’ve got partners and next steps in the fight against modern-day slavery. Choose from the list below:

International Justice Mission
IJM is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression.

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Restavec Foundation
The Jean R. Cadet Restavec Foundation was established to bring an end to child slavery in Haiti. Until that goal is realized, they work to increase global awareness of the issue while providing immediate relief to children trapped in the restavec system.

NEXT STEPS:

  • Sign up for a GO Cincinnati project to assemble care packages on May 16 for restavec children in Haiti (when signing up, say yes to “are you serving with a group” and then pick Ashley Schot as the group leader)
  • Prepare a school pack or a hygiene pack and take/send to the Foundation in Kenwood, OH (see website for details)
  • Skip Your Latte Today and feed a Haitian family for just $3.65

Call + Response
Call + Response is the first feature rockumentary to expose the world’s 27 million most terrifying secrets. You’ve heard the call. What is your response?

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Aruna 5K Run
Proceeds from the Aruna 5K run, which will take place on the UC campus on Saturday, April 18, will go to support the Oasis Aruna Project, which supports rescue, rehab, and reintegration in Mumbai, India.

NEXT STEP: Register online, and then select either “yes, I am committed to be a walker/runner” or “I would like to sponsor a walker/runner.” If you don’t know anyone on the drop-down menu, bless someone you don’t know with a sponsorship.

Ben Skinner
In his shocking and brutally honest book, A CRIME SO MONSTROUS: Face-to-Face with Modern Day Slavery, E. Benjamin Skinner—the first person in history to witness negotiations for the sale of human beings on four continents—went undercover at great personal risk to tell the astonishing and never-before-revealed stories of those enslaved all around us.

NEXT STEP: Read the book, then share with others the reality of slavery facing our world today.

Given Kachepa
Brought to the United States at age 11, Zambian acapella singer Given Kachepa became a human trafficking victim and now speaks as a survivor hoping that other childhoods will not be stolen and sold and as his was.

NEXT STEPS:

  • Take Given’s book to your school and ask the administration to educate the student body
  • Make a donation to a school in Given’s home village in Zambia

Transitions Global
Transitions Global empowers survivors of sex trafficking with opportunities to heal and recapture the most basic of human rights, freedom and hope, using innovative solutions to provide a safe environment where girls can heal through intensive trauma therapy, life skills training and learn viable, sustainable job skills. Transitions Global empowers girls to become healthy and independent adults, restoring dignity, health, and, most importantly, hope.

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Theresa Flores | Gracehaven
Gracehaven seeks to provide shelter and rehabilitation to girls under the age of 18 who have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation, and to raise awareness among young women about the issue of domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST) in order to educate and equip them so that they can avoid becoming victims themselves.

NEXT STEP: Help with renovation of Gracehaven House in Columbus, Ohio

Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all. Our supporters are outraged by human rights abuses, but inspired by hope for a better world. So we work to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity.

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Invisible Children
Invisible Children works to transform apathy into activism by documenting the lives of those living in regions of conflict and injustice, and hopes to educate and inspire individuals in the Western world to use their unique voice for change.

NEXT STEP: Sign up for the April 25 Rescue event, invite friends, and spread the word

Polaris Project
One of the largest anti-trafficking organizations in the United States and Japan, Polaris Project has programs operating at international, national and local levels, all with a vision for a world without slavery.

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Unified for UNIFAT

U4U is organized, run and commanded by teens. Supporting 120 Ugandan kids, U4U employs 4 Acholi adults to mentor them, and has raised funds for the school to have textbooks, a well and new construction, in addition to sending hundreds of letters to Washington DC to keep the US involved in the peace talks.

NEXT STEPS:

  • Begin a U4U chapter in your school (see website for info)
  • Support fundraisers listed on U4U website