STOP THE TRAFFIK

HOW TO GET INVOLVED

If you only take 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 ON
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  • GET YOUR UNIVERSITY, STUDENT GROUP OR SOCIETY TO BECOME A STOP THE TRAFFIK MEMBER
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Ideas for Universities:

1Highlight STOP THE TRAFFIK at your college or university. Wear a heavy chain round your neck for a day (get one from a DIY shop) and when people ask you why tell them about STOP THE TRAFFIK. Use your imagination—we're sure you can come up with better ideas than these. Let us know what they are and we'll add them to the website.

2Make contact with other interested groups and societies and work together to raise awareness of STOP THE TRAFFIK.

3 Write articles for your student newspaper on the bicentennial, modern slavery and STOP THE TRAFFIK. Look for local links to make them relevant to your university and college and find out what students are currently doing in the campaign.

4 Set up a debate in the student’s union on modern-day slavery and trafficking. Invite your local MP to make a contribution, along with local organisations working in this area.

6 Nearly 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.

7Print off or buy copies of these posters to put up around your school, college or church 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!

8If you are doing a sporting event, then get sponsored for STOP THE TRAFFIK. Set up a fundraising page on Justgiving. Fundraising in this way makes it very easy for charities to reclaim Gift Aid.

9Blog about STOP THE TRAFFIK and set up a link to our website. You could add our banner to your blog as well.