Googlesite for Not for Sale Sunday resources
http://sites.google.com/site/notforsalesunday/Here is a site to help people prepare for Not for Sale Sunday on 17th May 2009.
It has ideas for prayers, displays, liturgies, litanies, and more.
The aim of Not For Sale Sunday is to raise awareness among the churches of the modern slavery of trafficking for sexual exploitation also known as sex trafficking.
It is organised by CHASTE a charity with the following aims:
firstly, awareness raising about human trafficking for sexual exploitation including education projects;
secondly, caring for survivors and encouraging the provision of safe housing;
thirdly, addressing the demand for commercial sex that drives sex trafficking; and
Churches and Christians can make a difference by praying, giving, and becoming active in lobbying, and petitioning. Sites of exploitation are present across Britian, Europe and the world.
Keep a watch on your locality and if you see strange patterns of movements into a house or place of business make it known to the police by calling a station - do not phone the emergnecy services unless you are reporting a crime that you can see occuring.
What to watch out for:
Let me give an example of how one brothel was raided into which women had been trafficked.
A woman in Lichfield was watching a house in her street because of unusual late night movements - lots of different cars calling at all times of the day including very late at night.
She saw a woman being dragged out of the house by some men who were acting violently. She looked up at a man who was looking down at her frm a first floor window and spat on the pavement. She was bundled into the car and driven off.
She reported this incident to the police and the brothel was raided.
In a case like this it would be good to get the registration number of the car and call 999 as there was concern for the immediate safety of the young woman.
I hope you find the site useful. There is more about CHASTE at www.chaste.org.uk
posted by Colin Darling @ 4:35 AM
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