For Anyone Who Wants to Host a Screening of “Nefarious”…

I just took this flyer and used pixlr.com/express to make it more of a template for anyone to use who has the DVD and the rights to show it…

So if that’s you, hopefully you can use this & plug in your venue and date and time in the blank lil spots.

If you’re not familiar with how to plug that info in, here’s my lil trick – it becomes easier and easier the more you do it:

1. save/upload this template flyer photo to you computer’s desktop or downloads

2. go to www/pixlr.com/express & open it up using the “Browse” button

3. click “text” button on bottom right

4. enter your personalized event info into the blank boxes

5. save updated photo w/your personalized info on it, by clicking “save” on top left corner. *Note: it won’t really save it correctly unless you end your title of the new document photo with “.jpg” so your computer will recognize it as a photo file.

I hope it’s a blessing to u & I hope it’s big enough!

This one is meant for web publishing  (ie: promoting your event via Twitter, Facebook, and email) – NOT for print! 😉

Soroptimists Luncheon + Awareness at the Benson Hotel

Through a random connection who helped sponsor my last Walk, I was invited to speak at a Soroptimist meeting (women who fight for the rights of other women and children). TOMORROW! I get 20 minutes only. This is hard! But hopefully I will get to cover all that I have planned & hit AWARENESS and PREVENTION hard…

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Awareness does not make for instant, tangible results, but it is crucial.

It is the cornerstone of all progress made in anti trafficking efforts

Women of all ages can get involved in preventing sex trafficking RIGHT NOW by beginning with awareness.

Education in the form of Documentary Screenings.

Feature Film: Nefarious Merchant of Souls

• .Unites a community and informs them of what Sex Trafficking looks like from a global perspective
• .Audience leaves feeling grieved, yet HOPEFUL and compelled, bc the film ends w/3 empowering action steps adopted from William Wilberforce who was dedicated to ending trans-Atlantic slavery. He changed the course of history through:

1. Prayer
2. Awareness
3. The Giving of Funds

Fund Raising in the Form of a Fun Event

Featuring: World Concern’s Free Them 5k

 

• .WC provides awareness training for children re: trafficker’s scams and their rights as children
• .WC provides vocational training – job skills, for safe ways to generate income
• .WC provides safety for migrating families – small business loans so they don’t have to move or to help them settle in and make a living once they’ve moved. Education about dangers of traveling over borders since this is a high risk place for all kinds of H.T.

Free Them 5k gives a healthy outlet for us women to get involved in the solution: walk or run a 5k, & even bring our families! 1-2 hr time commitment, 3.11 miles.   Details: (www.worldconcern.org/portland5k)

• When: May 25th (Sat. of Mem. Day wkend)
• Where: Horizon Community Church in Tualatin
• Cost: $30 to register now (under 18 = $10) & follow prompts to easily set up a fundraising page and ask family or FB frnds to help you reach your set goal of any amnt. Believe it or not it’s FUN to raise funds. Last year’s participants raised $143k in Seattle! = REWARDING >>> cause you know that this trustworthy NPO is using those funds to provide those three important things for those at high risk of being trafficked (awareness training, vocational training and safe migrating)

Grassroots Activism in the form of Volunteering.

Featuring: The I5exit campaign

• Explain how event works ~ volunteers hold signs at I5 exits to generate curiously and website traffic >>> education and resources including Polaris Project’s Nat’l HT & SARC’s local 24-hr. hotline / 2,500 visitors in one day, 5k+ visitors over two week period.

Time permitting:

*Other forms of prevention worthy of mentioning:

• Legislative Activism in the form of Lobbying at the Capitol whenever there is a trafficking related bill that needs to pass. THIS WEEK Senate Bill I lobbied for in March passed, and the House Bill is still undecided on. So there is hope that if passed un-amended, men who are caught for paying for sex with a child (rape) will be charged with a felony at the 1st offense. NOT a misdemeanor.
• Education in Middle and High School Health Classes (Forsaken Generation, Prevention Project and Shared Hope Int’l are all piloting curriculum to educate teens about this crucial issue).