Where to start

How to Get involved:

A Basic step for developing a Traffick Free Community (TFC) in your area is to gauge interest among your community, friends and colleagues and bring together a small team of about 4 or 5 people that will push this initaitive forward  

To do this:

• Run Awareness seminars and events within the community.

• Develop media attention

• Undertake simple surveys amongst the general public 

• Have a Slave Free chocolate fondue party

An Oasis USA advocate will be available to assist in any presentation or training, if required, and/or train those within your community to give the presentations themselves.

Examples of various awareness seminars and events:

An important role of Traffik Free Communities is organizing, partnering and participating in local events. we also encourage any TFC to search out and join other like-minded organizations in raising awareness within the community.

Event ideas:

• Use holidays to celebrate and promote ‘traffik free’ chocolate. Valentines, Easter, Halloween and Christmas are all big chocolate holidays.

• Host some film screenings of a film about Human Trafficking and have a discussion time afterwards.

• Have a booth at community events to hand out information about Human Trafficking.

• Plan activities alongside the 8 stakeholders, as described in the TC circle, such as Prayer Stations for trafficking victims in Churches or Benefit Concerts in Schools, etc..

• A major part of all of these activities is that it gives your Traffik Free Community a great chance to network and recruit! 

• Make sure to be conscious when talking to the public about the 8 stakeholders a TFC looks to partner with and think about the ways in which various people may be able to feed into these.

Other helpful steps to forming a TFC are:

Brainstorm to see what specific area of human trafficking is at the heart of the team

Research your community to discover what the trafficking issues are and where the areas of vulnerability may be

Discuss what the focus of the group will be - 

        Develop mentoring groups for youth at risk of trafficking, present in all the local high schools within the first year.

        Raising awareness about human trafficking through quarterly events

        Lobby City Government to improve city ordinances relating to massage parlors or labor trafficking.

        Providing Freedom Bags to local law enforcement to be given to minor sex trafficking victims. Undertake or arrange training for the local law enforcement.

       Display outreach posters through the city and advocate for local newspapers to stop escort ads. Lobby local and national hotels chains.

       Develop opportunities for local business to obtain slave free products

       Raising awareness about human trafficking within 60% of all churches in the city in the next year; assist the churches in having prayer events related to human          trafficking; provide opportunities for churches to meet needs of victims

      Etc....

For more information on how to start or join a TraffickFree Community near you, contact OasisUSA here.