Day 6: Connections

Here is a flier someone could download to put up at true stops, gas stations, and motels. If a victim could see these, they would see people wanting to help them, and ways to get help.

This week we were asked to find an interest group the connects to human trafficking. We found the group called Polaris. This group does a lot for victims. They offer comprehensive clinical social services to anyone who has been affected by human trafficking. They even have offices in Washington, D.C and New Jersey. They advance state and federal policy related to the crime of human trafficking on a national scale. They help people learn to see and recognize human trafficking, and encourage them to help. The group operates the national hot line for Human Trafficking in the US. The group started Vison 2020 to expand their impact on a global scale. We emailed this group hoping to hear back for an interview, but so far haven’t heard back. On the website page it tells people how to help this group. They have fliers viewers can download to hang around bus stops, motels, and truck stops, so the victims can see them and get help. They have on line flier you can put on social media to aware your friends on how to help. The group is encouraging people to tell victims to call the hotline number to get help. This is a helpful group of people who can really help us when we hear back.

Check out this link to a video about Polaris’s Vison 2020 project. Polaris would like to expand to other countries and get data from other countries to help end end human trafficking.