I CARE. I DARE. A ready-to-use toolkit for those who believe in a world free of slavery. EVERY 60 seconds a girl is sold into the sex trade. STOP SEX TRAFFICKING. Are you committed to end sex trafficking but don’t know where to start or don’t have much time? If yes, then this toolkit is for YOU. 01 About this toolkit: Contents Table of Table As the founder of Prajwala, a world renowned organization that fights trafficking within India and abroad, Sunitha Krishnan has shared her insights and methods for fighting sex trafficking with millions of people. In response, she has received hundreds of pleas from around the globe wondering how to get involved. Concerned citizens from all over the world want to know how they too can help put an end to this atrocious crime. In 2010, a group of students from the USA traveled to Hyderabad, India with HELP International. They began this toolkit and it has evolved over the past 2 years to into what it is today. The toolkit was published due to the generous grant from Krishna Rao, through Goldman Gives, made possible by iPartner India. This toolkit is for anyone and everyone who is interested in reaching out and making a difference. If you have the interest, passion, and heart, you can help end slavery. The following pages provide a guide to get you started. By working together, we can eradicate sex trafficking from the world. !! We need your help. It only takes 1. Educate 2. Get two yourself involved steps Pg. 02 & Pg. 03-10 1. Educate Yourself: 2 2. Get Involved: 3-9 3 Prevention 7 Fundraising 4 Rescue 8 Time Table 5 Rehabilitation 9 Conclusion 6 Advocacy 10-14 Resources This page will help you Step 1: Educate Yourself understand what trafficking 02 is. For more resources, see the last pages of this toolkit. Yourself Educating yourself is a crucial foundation to Educate understanding how you can help. Let your knowledge then turn to fuel for ACTION. UNDERSTAND It could happen to anyone, even to you or a loved one. Trafficking story: Michelle Trafficking story: Sujatha! When Sujatha was in secondary LEARN Michelle grew up in the foster care system in the USA. She never felt like school, she received a bad grade on an anyone was looking out for her. One exam. She was too ashamed to go Internet, Books, day she met a charming, charismatic home and face her parents so she Documentaries: guy and they quickly became a went to a bus station to run away. Understand what couple. As he started to get more While at the bus station she was is happening in emotionally abusive, she felt trapped. approached by a woman who your region of the He then convinced her that the only promised Sujatha a job, one that her world and what is way for them to make enough money parents would be proud of. Sujatha being done to to build a life for themselves was for believed the woman and followed her, stop it. her to sell herself and if she loved eventually into a brothel where she him, she would do it. He became her was forced into prostitution. NGO’s: Research pimp. ! organizations who address sex trafficking. Assess Needs: Trafficking story: Kanya Trafficking story: Myla Ask a lot of Kanya grew up as an orphan in Myla spent her growing up years in questions and Thailand. She lived in what people poverty. When she was given the LISTEN find out assumed was an orphanage, but chance to go abroad to work from a what needs exist the owner had other plans for the Filipino agency, she took the offer. and plan how you girls who were there. When she When she arrived in her new home, can address them. *Apx on was young he began pimping all of her boss quickly took her passport page 10 the girls out to buyers and Kanya and forced her to give sexual favors didn’t know what she could do to by threatening to harm her or send stop the abuse. " her to prison if she didn’t comply. FACTS 12.3 MILLION adults and children are in forced labor, bonded labor, or forced prostitution around the world. Sex-trafficking is tied as the 2nd largest criminal industry in the world. It’s a 32 billion dollar industry. 30-50% of sex-trafficking cases are children (US dept of Justice). That’s about 1.2 MILLION children! in Asia each year , 300-400,000 people are trafficked. In India, there are 33,000 missing children each year. Only 1/3 are found. YOU can fight Slavery. Step 2: Get PREVENTION 03 Involved This section describes Prevention Prevention is to decrease the prevalence, number, or different types of prevention and how you might get incidents of sex trafficking through educational activities. involved. Remember, education is a large part of prevention. Julia, Laxmi, and Phillip found local solutions to make a difference. At his dinner party, Phillip Julia is a teacher in Brazil who showed a documentary began volunteering her time after Laxmi is part of a book group. She about sex trafficking as the school to tutor the children of chose to read a book about sex entertainment. He then held a prostitutes. She now has started trafficking and led a great discussion about the problem and a drop-in center for these discussion about it. The group then invited his guests to sign the Men children and is making a life- researched local organizations and Against Demand and another changing difference for both the planned what they can do to fight petition for law reforms in his children and their mothers. sex trafficking. country. Ask yourself the questions below. It will help you learn crucial information as you organize a prevention campaign. STOP trafficking before it starts. TRAFFICKER ? DEMAND VICTIM Is she educated about • Are there enforced • Does the community know • punishments for men who what a trafficker looks like? signs of traffickers? Are her parents? sleep with underage • Does the community know • prostitutes and/or sex there is a problem? • What makes her vulnerable? tourism? • Could someone have • Do men know how serious of stopped the trafficker in- • What about children a problem sex trafficking is? transit with the victim? of prostitutes? What alternatives do they • Do they realize that have? pornography has a direct • How safe is she from correlation to the sex trade? kidnappers? MEN AGAINST DEMAND Prajwala has begun a prevention campaign and call for action for men to stop the demand of prostitution. This is a very powerful source for change as men commit to not take part in the flesh trade. There are a few ways to help push this campaign forward. Please don’t feel confined by this list but see it as a starting point. • See resources page 12 for the petition. Use the • Sign the online petition titled “Pledge to be a petition and promote awareness and to get Man Against Demand” on change.org and signatures. Send results to: encourage others to do so as well. [email protected] YOU can fight Slavery. Can you help in a rescue? OF COURSE! 04 Read below to find out RESCUE how. Despite prevention campaigns, many vulnerable people are still tricked, coerced, or kidnapped into slavery. These victims need help. Rescue 1. Recognize a victim 2. Call the POLICE •Nervous or anxious and a Local Anti Trafficking Organization. •Young THEN A Rescue is a very specialized activity that requires a lot of planning, skills, and entails •Tight WHAT? many risks and a lot of danger. There are clothing agencies in each country that specialize in •Always rescues. Ensure that you inform professionals. escorted Check for your country’s emergency hotline. •Signs of abuse Some countries have hotlines specifically for •Unable to show sex trafficking. identification •Distrustful Be an alert citizen. Bharti lived on a border town where there was a lot of prostitution happening. She decided to set up a volunteer group in her community that would spend time at points of entry and exit, or bus stations and train stations to look out for potential trafficked victims. They would then report suspicions to the police. A note about victims of sex-trafficking: Many people who want to volunteer with an organization that fights against sex trafficking naturally want to interact with the victims. Many NGOs will turn you away if you request this and don’t be offended if they do. Please understand that they are trying to protect these girls who have just experienced intense trauma. A victim has experienced physical, psychological, and emotional trauma. The scars from what they have gone through will stay with them for their lifetimes. They feel betrayed by their families. The threat of being re-trafficked is strong and they live in constant fear. Most of the victims have also been forced to take drugs and many are addicted. Type to enter text Please understand that for the protection of the victim, sometimes bringing an outsider in is counter - productive to the program, especially for new victims. You may have a role in the recovery of a victim, but only if you are going to be around for the long term. There are many psychological issues that a victim must work through and they may not initially trust anyone. There will be times of anger, sadness, frustration, and misunderstanding as they work through their experiences. This trauma has attacked their core soul and a volunteer who comes in at random points during the process of healing may not be the best fit for a victim.