Action Options in the Educational Sphere

• Eat only trafficking free chocolate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6533405.stm

• Subscribe to a free international newsletter, Stop Trafficking. Go to: http://homepage.mac.com/srjeanschafersds/stoptraffic/index.html

   

• Use this packet to prepare a program, ideas, or materials for your parish or faith community.

• Are you a teacher or a principal? Does your community sponsor a school or other educational program? Do you have children attending school? Integrate programs into schools to teach economic justice and gender justice.
   
• Individually, or through parish or church organizations, make sure that gender relations and gender analysis is included in the curriculum. This is an academic discipline that can be included in social studies, theology, justice and peace studies, as well as economic studies. Encourage your children to take such courses...and tell them why.
   
• Combat the "sin of ignorance." Sponsor, support, and attend community awareness programs that increase social consciousness. Seek sponsorship or collaborate with parish, church, non-profit, diocesan, or other communities committed to issues of social justice.
   
• Tell others about this web site so that they can become informed and active.
   
• Check out this syllabus for a course on International Trafficking of Women and Children (Johns Hopkins University: The Protection Project)
   
• Download and view these Powerpoint Presentations on International Sex Tourism
• Download and read this book (PDF file) on trafficking.
   
• Download and view this Powerpoint Presentation on Labor Trafficking in the United States.
• Download and read this free handout packet produced by the Salvatorians.

Do you have additional ideas? Why not email your suggestions or links to be considered for inclusion on this website? Email: S. Patrice Colletti, SDS

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