How it works

A Traffik Free Community is a place where there is no place for human trafficking

Slavery was made illegal in the U.S. in 1865 but the U.S State Department estimates up to 17,500 people are trafficked into America for forced labor or sex work every year.  Men, women and children have been discovered working as slaves in massage businesses, restaurants, construction, agriculture, and in homes as domestic servants.  Products of slavery can also be found in the clothes we wear and the chocolate we eat.  Traffik Free Communities, a project of Oasis USA, helps you work toward ending slavery in your community.

‘Traffick Free Communities’ were created to motivate and enable local communities to engage in an effective way to address issues of trafficking in their locality.  Trafficking is a global problem but has a local face that will only be effectively addressed as local communities take responsibility for responding to the specific issues in their local area.

Although TFC’s are the brainchild of Oasis the secret of their success is local ownership by people who represent different stakeholders within a given community.  Oasis therefore seeks to provide the impetus and expertise to help TFC’s get going rather than control what happens.  It’s approach is to empower a local working group to take ownership and responsibility.  At the same time it strongly encourages groups to remain connected to Oasis so that ideas can be shared with others and initiatives replicated.

The following presentation gives an overview of the Oasis TFC process:-