Day 8: Putting Everything Together

This week we have been working on putting all our information we found, and putting them into categories that we can use on our poster board. We mentioned in our last post how we would like to organize our poster board, and we still are planning on doing that. We thought it would be a cool idea to have our thumb prints be the background of the poster, each print representing so many victims affected by human trafficking. We have started to also look at writing our speeches. We are working on how to present our public policy into the speeches. We are looking forward to the practice runs next week so we can better prepare for the showcase.

Day 7: Planning

This week we are in the final stages of our project. Now we have to decide how to put the project together. We decided we want to use a poster board. We’ve decided to split our poster board into four categories.

1. Problem

First, we’re going to discuss the problem of human trafficking. This is where we will have most of our statistics. We hope to educate our viewers about human trafficking and just get them up to speed on how big of a problem it is. We’re debating on whether or not we should include a personal story from a victim of human trafficking.

2. Current Solutions

Our group has contacted many different human trafficking groups including Truckers Against Trafficking, Free The Girls, Prevail, The Julian Center, Polaris Project and more. From these groups, especially Truckers Against Trafficking and Polaris Project, we learned a lot of the statistics we will be using in our presentation. These groups have educated us on how to spot and report human trafficking. These organizations also have given us ideas on how to create our own solution for human trafficking.

3. Our Idea For Human Trafficking 

Our group has debated on how to conquer the huge problem that is human trafficking. How exactly can that be done? We decided that education on the topic is extremely important. Once we figured out that, we asked and discussed who it is that should be educated? Unfortunatkey, it’s nearly impossible to educate everybody about the topic so we’re going to try and narrow it down. We concluded that truck drivers and students should be educated on human trafficking. We would like to propose that in order to receive a CDL liscence , which is the liscence needed to drive a semi-trailer, a video on how to effectively spot and report human trafficking must be viewed. a simple 20 minute video could save many victims from the horror of human trafficking. We also think that students in health classes that learn sex education should watch a video too. Since students are the future and human trafficking is the second largest organized crime in the world, why not let them know about it?

Since spring break is for the next two weeks, our group plans to meet. We want to get the supplies for our poster and hopefully plan out how we would like to organize our poster. We plan on writing a little bit of our speech during break and then finishing it outside of class once we come back.