
There are many ways to join the fight against sex and labor trafficking. Here are 20 ideas to consider doing.
- Share the contact information for the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline. If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking call 1-888-373-7888 or text 233733.
- Volunteer for social service organizations and providers in your community that provide support for vulnerable people.
- Learn what products are likely to be produced by forced or child labor - and how they might make their way into your home.
- Support survivor-owned or led businesses and businesses that offer meaningful employment opportunities to survivors.
- Pledge to stand in solidarity with survivors and work for a world where everyone has the freedom to make their own choices about how they live and work.
- Encourage schools to create thoughtful, well-informed campaigns to inform youth about sex and labor trafficking.
- Advocate for state and local policies that support healthy families, good jobs and strong communities as a way to prevent and reduce trafficking.
- Donate money, miles, points, and more to anti-trafficking organizations.
- Understand the whole story – not the “signs or indicators” of human trafficking. Context is key to understanding this complex and diverse crime.
- Support state and federal policies that can prevent or reduce sex and labor trafficking specifically.
- Learn about business policies – such as supply chain practices – that can help prevent trafficking and work with your company to implement them.
- Understand how traffickers use social media, teach others, and pledge to share credible information on your social media channels
- Support policies that make it easier for human trafficking survivors to have their records cleared of criminal offenses they were forced to commit while being trafficked.
- Work with your company to implement policies that support hiring survivors of sex and labor trafficking.
- Are you an attorney? A truck driver? Or a medical professional? Learn how specific professional skills can be put to use supporting survivors of trafficking in your community.
- Share information about what makes people vulnerable to human trafficking.
- Fundraise for an anti-trafficking organization or organizations that support vulnerable communities, like emergency shelters and food banks.
- Support federal policies that prevent trafficking of vulnerable runaway and homeless youth.
- Learn about the temporary work visas system and support federal policies that provide protections for domestic and agricultural guest workers.
- Share this page with your friends and family!
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