STOP THE TRAFFIK

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

If your school only takes 3 actions make sure you:

  • GET AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO SIGN THE GLOBAL DECLARATION
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  • BUY A STOCK OF THE FREEDOM KEYS AND SELL THEM
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  • GET YOUR SCHOOL TO TO BECOME A STOP THE TRAFFIK MEMBER
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Ideas for schools:

1Do an assembly on the issue. Get an assembly outline here that you could use or adapt. And it’s not just for teachers! If you’re a pupil, ask your teacher if you can pass on what you’ve found out about STOP THE TRAFFIK. Or if you’re a schoolsworker, talk to the schools that you visit about highlighting STOP THE TRAFFIK in an assembly. You could inspire lots of other people to get involved.

2NEARLY HALF THE WORLD'S CHOCOLATE IS MADE FROM COCOA GROWN IN COTE D'IVOIRE, WEST AFRICA. One form of trafficking is the use of children to harvest the cocoa beans on these farms. These children are likely to be working to make your chocolate.  STOP THE TRAFFIK is calling for people everywhere of all ages to force the chocolate companies to give a guarantee that their chocolate is Traffik Free. Find out how you can campaign to get Traffik Free Guarantee on Chocolate.

4Print off or buy copies of these posters to put uparound your school to publicise STOP THE TRAFFIK and your event. Check whether you need permission to do this, and make sure you get it before you set off with your blu-tack and posters!

5Plan to do some lessons about people trafficking and how pupils can respond. There are four activity ideas and worksheets here for use with 7-11 year olds with curriculum links included. Use these lesson ideas in secondary schools to educate about trafficking and raise awareness of STOP THE TRAFFIK. There are ideas for Geography, RE and Citizenship lessons tailored to KS3 in the English national curriculum pupils which are easily adapted for other settings. 

6 Damaris has a free RE lesson for KS3/4 on STOP THE TRAFFIK on their website www.relessonsonline.com. It uses clips from the 2004 Oscar winning film Crash to show a young car thief's dilemma when he realises that the stolen van he is trying to sell is full of trafficked people. Parallels are drawn between the young man's struggle with his sense of responsibility for the people and the responsibility that all of us share to stand against the reality of people trafficking.

7 Damaris has a series of five assemblies for primary schools on STOP THE TRAFFIK and slavery on their new site Assemblies Online, one of which is available free in their showcase. The topic is Slavery Today: People trafficking case studies, it uses a clip from Bug's Life and looks at Matthew 25:41-45.

8Add a STOP THE TRAFFIK banner to your school website. You’ll find the code to use here.

9Buy a 10 foot by 2 foot STOP THE TRAFFIK banner and hang it on the outside of your school.

10If you are doing a sporting event, then get sponsored to raise money for STOP THE TRAFFIK. You can set up a fundraising page on Justgiving. Fundraising in this way makes it very easy for charities to reclaim Gift Aid.