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Abolitionists have been working to end slavery for hundreds of years. Great progress has been made but we need you to help finish the job. Traffik Free Communities facilitates collaboration between key stakeholders to ensure slave labor and slave goods are not a part of our communities.

Engaged citizens form a TFC group to work with eight key community stakeholders to ensure:

Consumers: are made aware of the products that contain slave labor and are empowered to take action for freedom.
Law Enforcement personnel: are equipped with the information they need to identify trafficking victims and get them the help they need.
Local Legislatures: are made aware of how strong ordinances can drive traffickers out of their cities.
Local Businesses: such as laundry mats and motels are informed about trafficking and how to report suspicious activity.
Schools: are made aware of how to protect their fellow students from being lured into sex trafficking and equipped to become advocates for freedom.
Faith Communities: become centers for prayer, advocacy and justice on behalf of the enslaved.
The Media: reports about the issue consistently and with sensitivity.
First Responders: medical clinics and paramedics, and other members of the medical community have the information they need to spot a victim of trafficking and get them the help they need.

What Oasis will provide for you

Assistance in the birth of a TFC through input and facilitation
A clear approach to how to get started focusing on research and building understanding within your community
A menu of resources to help address trafficking from a variety of angles
A website that has a generic template used by other TFC’s which can be used from day 1 and altered as required
A range of visual brand resources
Examples, stories and step by step methods, from the national and global work of Oasis that can help as you develop the intitaives within your community
Consultancy to enable you to get going and keep going over the long haul. Someone from our central team is available at the other end of a phone all the time.

What requirements Oasis has from TFC’s

To use the brand provided that identifies the group as a TFC
To either provide some level of funding for Oasis central support operation for TFC’s or to fundraise for this. (A number of options are provided, see the detailed sheet on financing TFC’s)
To keep connected to Oasis and share information about progress made that can be shared with others.

How we Finance a TFC

In order for Oasis to continue to be able to roll out the TFC program we need to build a measure of financial sustainability into the model. That means that when a TFC is birthed it finds a way of making a financial contribution to ensure that Oasis can continue to provide the support for the specific TFC and help in developing others.

It costs Oasis close to $5,000 per year to oversee and resource each TFC. We ask for a contribution of around $3,000. (The remainder Oasis will source through its own fundraising efforts)

For that reason, when a TFC is birthed we will discuss with the core leadership team 3 different options for enabling this to happen. These are:

A financial contribution on a monthly basis from a TFC, collected from its members or other supportive people. ($250 per month.
The marketing of the Oasis 13 campaign which encourages individuals to sign up for $13 a month to fight trafficking. If a TFC signs up 20 people to the campaign then the $3,000 is covered that way.
Fundraisers organized by the TFC during the course of the year with a target of $3,000. This might be allocated within a wider budget created for the workings of the TFC and programs it establishes.

When it comes to initiatives each TFC will look to find its own financial resources and sustainability to run the programs it establishes. Although, i the early development of a TFC community Oasis USA will assist with material resources.

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