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27 WAYS TO DO MORE

SIGN GIVE
the IJM Petition to President Obama asking him to help fight local and global slavery. www.ijm.org/content/sign-your-name-stand-for-freedom $1 a day for 72 days. Its that simple! Funds will go to start and sustain an academy for young girls in Atlanta who are survivors of sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, or at-risk.

FIRST, JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST SLAVERY BY COMPLETING THE 72 DAYS FOR FREEDOM ACTION STEPS:

HOST PRAY

a screening of FREEDOM: Indifference Is Not An Option in your home, church, or ministry group. Gather your friends, watch the film, then together form a plan of action to impact slavery.

Join us on a daily prayer journey asking Jesus to break the chains of slavery and bring rescue, healing and change.

27 WAYS TO DO MORE
Want to do more? Here are 27 more ways to help fight slavery and be a voice for the 27 million men, women, and children who are held captive around the world.

1 Take the Slavery Footprint Survey and learn how many slaves work for you based on the things you
purchase, wear, eat, use and purchase on a daily basis. SlaveryFootprint.org

2 Be a conscious consumer. Download and use the Free World Appto let brands know that you care where
they source items from for their products. itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-world/id466979649?mt=8

3 Demand that your senators, representatives, and government officials make fighting slavery a top priority.
Heres how you can contact them: Senator: www.senate.gov/reference/common/faq/How_to_contact_senators.htm Representative: WriteRep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml Other: hq-org2.DemocracyInAction.org/o/5417/getLocal.jsp

4 Do research. Dig online, read books and articles, and watch films to learn as much as you can about the
slavery issue.

5 Be aware. If you suspect trafficking call the National Trafficking Hotline. Plug the number in your phone:
1-888-3737-888

6 Start an International Justice Mission Chapter on your campus and rally a generation to fight for freedom.
IJM.org/itmatters

7 Get trained to fight slavery. Attend one of the Not For Sale Abolitionist Academys to learn more about how
you can identify and fight slavery. NFSAcademy.org

8 Stop viewing pornography and encourage your friends to stop. Human Trafficking and pornography are
closely linked. When you consume pornography you are supporting trafficking. Stop.

9 Challenge airlines to provide training for all flight attendants on how to identify and watch for victims being
trafficked. InnocentsAtRisk.org

10 Adopt, foster children, or become an orphan advocate. Orphans and risk children are more likely to become
victims of trafficking, slavery, and sexual exploitation.

LIFE AND WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO 11 BREATHE GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN RESCUED FROM TRAFFICKING SITUATIONS BY WRITING LETTERS TO THEM.
THEA21CAMPAIGN.ORG/WRITE-A-LETTER.PHP
12 Read books about slavery, pass along the book or start a book club. Decide as a group how to take action.
Suggested book list available at 72DaysForFreedom.com.

13 Get educated and learn the facts. Then, boldly use social media and opportunities in your community and
sphere of influence to speak up.

14 Become an intern at an organization fighting slavery and/or trafficking on a local, nation, and/or global scale.
Use your gifts, talents, and time to make a difference.

15 Act local. Get your church, friends, or group involved in fundraising, volunteering with, and serving a local
organization caring for women and children who have been sexually exploited.

16 Fight slavery in the checkout line by learning about and refraining from purchasing items often produced by
forced labor. Learn more by reading the Department of Labors List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. dol.gov/ilab/programs/ocft/PDF/2011TVPRA.pdf

17 Eat Fair Trade chocolate and tell leaders in the chocolate industry to stop using child slave labor and institute
labor standards among their suppliers.

18 Be creative. Use your gifts to raise awareness and fight for freedom right where you are. Write articles, make
films, host events, go the options are endless.

19 Engage with the CNN Freedom Project as they use their media influence to highlight slavery stories and help
set captives free. TheCNNFreedomProject.blogs.cnn.com/

20 Challenge tourism suppliers such as hotels and airlines to sign and participate in the Tourism Child-Protection
Code of Conduct. TheCode.org.

21 Connect and/or support a local ministry working in your town that is reaching out to strip clubs and massage
parlors to identify trafficking and offer alternative options for girls who want to escape.

22 Help report, document, and track cases of trafficking in your community and around the globe: slaverymap.org/ 23 Buy goods and support organizations that are helping those rescued from slavery, trafficking, and sexual
exploitation begin a new future.

24 Use your investments to fight slavery, not feed slavery. Learn more and take action to ensure slavery free
investments: FreeTheSlaves.net/Page.aspx?pid=379

26 Volunteer, teach a life skill class, be an academic mentor,

COMPANIES 25 DEMAND TO DEFINE AND ROOT OUT FORCED LABOR FROM THEIR SUPPLY CHAINS.

or participate in home improvement project to help restore the women at Wellspring Living recovery shelter in Atlanta, GA. wellspringleague.org/?page_id=163

27 Teach young people that slavery still exists and challenge


them to get involved. Parents, educators, youth and college pastors can help raise up the next generation of abolitionist. Parent and Educator Discussion Guide: cnn.com/2011/US/studentnews/04/04/freedomproject. teacher.guide/index.html

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