Today 46 million human beings are enslaved. Learn about slavery and human trafficking, where and why it occurs, and how Rotary projects are helping survivors. We’ll also discuss ways to prevent this crime, and how your club can take action.

1. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have already chosen the side of the oppressor”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Breakout Session – 12 June 2017
Rotarians combating Human Trafficking and Slavery

2. Break Out Session - Agenda
1st Presentation: Mark Little, Chairman, RAGAS.
(RC of Norwich St Edmund, D 1080, England)
2nd Presentation: Carol Hart Metzker, Author
(One World Rotary eClub, District 5240)
3rd Presentation: Dave McCleary, Vice Chair, RAGAS
(RC of Roswell, D6900, USA)
Q&A Session: Panelists: Mark Little, Carol Metzker, Dave McCleary
and Stephen Sypula (RAGAS Vice Chair (RC of
Stevenage Grange, D1260, England)

3. “Imagination is the only weapon
in the war against reality”
(Cheshire Cat – Alice in Wonderland)

5. People are being used as slaves all over the world

6. Slavery is prevalent in so many industries and crafts

7. Slavery is prevalent in so many industries and crafts

8. Slavery is prevalent in so many industries and crafts
For Hire

9. Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
Article 1 – All human beings are born free and equal in dignity & rights.
Article 2 – Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedom in this Declaration,
without any distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language,
social origin or birth.
Article 3 – Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.
Article 4 - No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery
and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms

10. Rotary’s Stance on Slavery/Slave Trade ?

11. APPROVED – January 2013

12. • Raise awareness that millions of people are held captive and illegally
forced to work for commercial gain.
• Encourage and help Rotarians to participate in programmes and projects
which help to protect everybody from slavery and its consequences.
The Main Objectives of the RAG against Slavery

13. So what are the main challenges which this RAG has to address ?

14. The RAG’s Remit in Nov 2012
Child Slavery NOT Child Labour

15. KESHER NANKER – A FREED BONDED SLAVE

16. THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM FACING THE RAG
46 Million

17. Children gathering charcoal, Brazil
CHEAP & DISPOSALBLE

18. CHEAP & DISPOSALBLE

19. Children gathering charcoal, Brazil
CHEAP & DISPOSALBLE

20. Boys working in a Brazilian charcoal camp

21. Slavery in Africa
Harvesting cocoa beans in the Ivory Coast
Slaves mining in the Congo

22. Slavery in South East Asia
Making bricks in Nepal
Working in a carpet factory in India

23. Rescue of Huro & Shivji from a carpet
factory along with 17 other boys

24. A happy ending for Hur0 & Shivji

25. Children who were rescued

26. Ashraf showing me his paintings

27. Rotarians
Facing the Monster
By Carol Metzker

28. 11-14 years old -
the average age of entry into commercial
sexual exploitation in the U.S.

29. Maina, 11 years old
Maina, 11 years old

30. Leah*,
14 years old

31. You cannot be a
child prostitute
if you can’t
consent to sex..

33. What It Really Means to be a
Victim of Sex Trafficking/CSE
• Betrayal
• Unsafe living conditions
• Psychological chains, trauma bonding
• Sex 10-15 times per day on average
• Violence
• Isolation/Shunning by family and society
• DO NOT SELF-IDENTIFY AS VICTIMS

34. Betrayal

35. Unsafe Living Conditions

36. Trauma-Bonding/Psychological Chains
Your trafficker controls
your life, and you love
him/her anyway

37. Violence
“To hear all our stories, we’d be swimming in tears.”
Brendale

38. Sex 10-15 times per day,
on average, with a stranger—
Exposure to common cold, STDs,
scabies, unwanted pregnancy,
violence

39. Isolated and Shunned

40. Average Life Span,
7 years
• Suicide
• Drug overdose—
addicted as means
of control or
numbing pain
• Poor health, lack
of healthcare
• Violence

41. Last summer, a serial killer targeted CSE victims in Philadelphia.

42. THIS MUST STOP.

43. To the Rescue

44. Rotarians to the Rescue!

45. Punarnawa Ashram,
India

46. Jaya*

47. The Salvation Army’s New Day to
Stop Trafficking Program, PA, US

48. The Salvation Army’s New Day:
Drop-in Center, Case Management, New Home

49. Leah* – Success!

50. Please help
• Start or support a project of Rotarian Action Group Against
Slavery.
• Shift attitudes: Humans not riffraff; victims not criminals
• Spread the word: It's not ok to buy sex.

51. Thank you

52. Dave McCleary, Vice Chair, RAGAS
(RC of Roswell, D6900, USA)

53. In our community!
Locally – March 2012
Melissa told her story
about being sold for sex…
She used to babysit for one
of the Roswell Rotarians…
it hit home – she could be…
SOMEONE YOU KNOW!

54. Hosted the End Human Trafficking Worldwide Summit
together with President Jimmy Carter at the Carter
Center in Atlanta which was attended by organizations
from 14 countries and 32 states. Speakers included
President Jimmy Carter, U.S. Senators Isakson and
Corker, and the Attorney General of the United States,
Sally Yates.

55. “You may choose to look the other way,
but you can never again say that
you did not know”
William Wilberforce

57. Rotary
34,000 community based service clubs
1,200,000 members worldwide
Rotaract – ages 18-30
9,500 clubs in 170 countries
Approx 219,000 members
Interact – ages 12 to 18
10,700 Interact clubs in 109 countries
Approx 200,000 members

58. • Become a member of RAGAS - http://ragas.online
• Appoint a End Slavery/Human Trafficking chair in
your club
• Ask us about becoming a in State or Country
Coordinator
• Sign up at IJM.org/rotary
Engage your Rotary Club Now !

59. • Jackson-Butts Rotary – Posting the Polaris Project
Hotline in Truck Stops (House Bill 141)
• Host a speaker at your club
• Host an public event with training ( Newnan Ga.)
• Host a public event showing a movie with panel
discussion after (SOLD)
• Ask your District Governor make Slavery part of
their Governor’s Citation
• Program at your District Conference
• Engage your Interact Clubs (South Ukiah Rotary
Club CA)
Engage your Rotary Club Now !

60. • Stop Human Trafficking in Minnesota for the
Super bowl – President Karen Walkowski and Joe
Roslansky – Working with AFRJ all clubs in their
district engaged
• Community Event – LA California ( DGE Cozette Vergari)
• Rotary Club of Buckhead/Atlanta – Train Hotel
Workers with ECPCT USA
• Creating Rotary Human Trafficking Task force
Engage your Rotary Club Now !

61. Awareness Turns to Action
Chennai India All Rotary Clubs
Engage your Rotary Club Now !
• Ensure all presidents pledge bonded labor free in their factories
• Increase familiarity of IJM and the bonded labor issue among Rotary
members (Training Rotary)
• Develop ways Rotary Clubs can support the economic sustenance and
empowerment of IJM survivors
• Further discuss opportunities to create low cost housing
• Develop Sanitation support
• Invite IJM to present, and BL issue in the Rotary Annual Convention at
Chennai Trade Centre in February 2017
• Individually address the Bonded Labor issue in the Rotary clubs - Chennai
and other districts

62. Awareness Turns to Action
• Safe Harbor Yes - Rotary was instrumental ( Clubs
all over the state ) 65 clubs key cities Savanah,
Columbus, Rome, Atlanta, North Fulton Clubs,
Macon. Peachtree City, Giffin.
Passed with 84% of the vote in Georgia

63. The More Than A Survivor: More Than A Story
photography exhibit features a series of 22 stunning
portraits of women from across the country who are
all human trafficking survivors and now leaders
within their own professional fields.
Engage your Rotary Club Now !
DELTADisplay at Atlanta Airport

64. • Joined the Global Alliance for Business
Engagement , Starbucks , Anthem, Deloitte, CFA,
IBM, Oracle, Randstad, and a couple dozen more.
Engage your Rotary Club Now !

65. The Empowered Living Academy is a free 10-week, holistic
program for women age 18+ that provides structured
classes to develop career readiness and personal
development skills with the aim of equipping women to be
able to obtain a living-wage career. We have a GED Track
and a Career Track. Successful completion of 10 weeks of
classes in the Career Track leads to a minimum 10-week
paid apprenticeship through our partner Randstad US or
one of their partners.

66. Working with Senator Corker,
Chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee in the United
States, on the initiative to End
Modern Slavery because of Rotary
we were reasonable for getting 12
Senators to co-sponsor the Bill

67. SLAVERY
Child Health Education Economic
Development
Peace
Water & SanitationDisease Prevention

68. Conclusions

69. Questions?
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