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morale in restoration homes, supplying encouragement and small gifts. Along with supplying support to the victims, support is given to trafficking service providers, including retreats.
PREVENTION
Demand, poverty, and lack of education are three of the driving forces behind the sexual exploitation of children around the world. JOY International strives to address these needs to help ease the burden of poverty on families around the world. These efforts include an emergency relief fund aimed at sup- plying basic needs like food, clean water, support in rebuilding communi- ties affected by disasters, thus offering stability and hope. Prevention also includes focuses on supplying resources for parents to help keep their children and teenagers safe from the threat of human trafficking. One of the best ways to help prevent human traf- ficking is through education. Educating families, girls, and children is a power- ful source against trafficking. JOY International actively works
with like-minded organizations in the relevant geographic locations to help children and young adults leave com- mercial sexual exploitation, freeing them from a life of slavery and bond- age. The charity partners with the police, task forces, prosecutors, and NGOs to find and rescue captive chil- dren throughout the world and bring their captors to justice. The organization is committed to
seeing those freed from sexual exploita- tion healed emotionally, spiritually, men- tally, and physically. Not only do they provide aid, but they also partner with safe houses and rehabilitation profes- sionals to ensure the safety and care for these precious women and children as they walk the road of healing. The goal is to see each child and
adult who survives the trafficking industry be fully reintegrated back into their community and, when possible,
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restored to their families. Reintegration can only take place when complete healing in safe homes happens first. Partner safe homes work to educate and train survivors in relevant school- ing and job placement courses, pre- paring them to integrate back into society as healthy, educated, and trained adults when the time comes. Reintegration into families will only happen if the families can prove that they are willing and able to support the ongoing safety and care of the child, supporting consistent contact with social workers to ensure the child’s wellbeing. JOY International also sponsors
several young women’s continuing education costs, supplying them with an opportunity to go to university. Equipping survivors with the neces- sary education and training to support themselves can help end the cycle of poverty that drives trafficking.
How Can You Help? Anyone can join in the fight against human trafficking. Here are some ideas to consider: • Learn the indicators of human traf- ficking on the TIP Office’s website or by taking a training. Human trafficking awareness training is available for individuals,
businesses, first responders, law enforcement, educators, and fed- eral employees, among others.
• If you are in the United States and believe someone may be a victim of human trafficking, call the 24-hour National Human Trafficking Hotline at (888) 373- 7888 or report an emergency to law enforcement by calling 911. Trafficking victims, whether U.S. citizens or not, are eligible for ser- vices and immigration aid.
• Be a conscientious and informed consumer. Find out more about who may have picked your toma- toes or made your clothes at
ResponsibleSourcingTool.org, or check out the Department of Labor’s List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. Encourage companies to take steps to prevent human trafficking in their supply chains and publish the information, including supplier or factory lists, for consumer awareness.
Madison Martin is an alumna of Louisiana State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in mass communication, concentrating in digital advertis- ing and copywriting. She helps run the marketing department of
StorageAuctions.com and has been with the company for five years.
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