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Welcome to the latest STOP THE TRAFFIK newsletter, featuring many of our members’ events. We hope they give you ideas of how to get involved. It’s been exciting to receive so many reports of events being planned for Freedom Day on 25th March & beyond.
We are aiming for 10,000 awareness & fund raising events on 25th March 2007 —‘Freedom Day.’ The date is significant in the UK as it marks the bicentenary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, but we are encouraging everyone around the world to use this day as a focus for awareness on people trafficking, whether or not the date has any historic significance for you. So, please join us on March 25th and hold an event yourself or with friends for ‘Freedom Day.’ Check out the CALENDAR Of STOP THE TRAFFIK MEMBER ACTIVITIES 2007 at www.stopthetraffik.org/events
As well as the huge numbers of grass roots events, we also have larger events being organised by member organisations, which you are all warmly invited to attend—as far afield as the UK, Holland, Belgium, Ibiza, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand & Cambodia. We have music concerts, exhibitions, TV shows, protests & expeditions & the variety is fantastic & just what we hoped for. FREEDOM DAY!—JOIN IN!We want everyone to feel included and we particularly want to encourage the smaller groups like company staff, youth groups, churches, communities and clubs to celebrate Freedom Day. Use the following resources to help plan your event: Here are a few of the many plans we’ve heard of so far, be inspired by them and let us know what you’re doing by emailing info@stopthetraffik.org. 1An 11 year old pupil organised and led an assembly about STOP THE TRAFFIK &, as a result, her whole year took part in a sponsored fun run. 2A youth worker & his team are working in 5 secondary schools, raising awareness about STOP THE TRAFFIK through leading assemblies, classes and youth groups, selling Freedom Keys and gaining signatures of over 3,000 students. Plans are being laid for a Freedom Day march and drumming up interest in the local media. 3A University has set up a STOP THE TRAFFIK Society to raise awareness about trafficking. They are running a series of events including hosting a STOP THE TRAFFIK University Tour & there are many other universities actively campaigning for STOP THE TRAFFIK. 4A band are putting on a concert at their local church to raise money for STOP THE TRAFFIK, entertaining with an eclectic mix of classic songs and modern anthems, videos and presentations from STOP THE TRAFFIK, UNICEF, and Compassion. 5The great, great, great granddaughter of William Wilberforce, is being sponsored to give up smoking and donating all proceeds to STOP THE TRAFFIK. Also, Lansons Communications, who she works for has signed up as a member, profiles Stop The Traffik on their website, is selling the Freedom Keys, each member of staff has the declaration form link and statement on their e-mail signature. Also, there will be a sponsored run on 25th March the bicentenary, where over 30 of Lansons employees, friends and family will run the square mile to help raise awareness and funds for STOP THE TRAFFIK. 6A youth group held an auction of jobs such as car washing, shopping, dog walking, gardening & baby sitting. 7Members of a Lions Club, joined an annual outdoor winter swim to raise sponsorship for STOP THE TRAFFIK. 8A church leader had his ear pierced and is wearing a STOP THE TRAFFIK Freedom Key in his ear until ‘Freedom Day,’ 25th March. 9A ‘Fata Morgana’ event was organised by youth groups from Belgium & the Netherlands, with the challenge of organising in limited time a benefit concert for STOP THE TRAFFIK, distributing ‘slave-free’ hot chocolate, building a Freedom Wall in the market square and collecting signatures for the STOP THE TRAFFIK global declaration, all wrapped up in chains. And Continuing On Past Freedom Day …Many of the events are scheduled for March, around ‘Freedom Day,’ but STOP THE TRAFFIK does not stop on 25th March. Far from it! With such a great publicity opportunity in March, we believe that the remainder of the year will give us all fantastic opportunities as more and more people hear about people trafficking and STOP THE TRAFFIK. So, please really engage with us around ‘Freedom Day,’ but also see your partnership with us as running right throughout the year. STOP THE TRAFFIK Coordinating Team |
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