Human trafficking involves the recruitment, transportation, harbouring and/ or exercising control, direction or influence over the movements of a person in order to exploit that person, typically through sexual exploitation or forced labour. It is often described as a modern form of slavery.

Victims suffer physical or emotional abuse and often live and work in horrific conditions. They may also face fatal consequences if they attempt to escape. This crime represents a consistent and pervasive assault on the fundamental human rights of its victims.

This Affects mostly

- Women

-Children

This website doesn't have information on who founded this organization.

Who runs/works for this organization?

It doesn't say directly, however;

Dr. Claire Crooks is one of the lead developers and researchers of the Fourth R, a relationship-based program aimed at preventing violence and related risk behaviors in adolescents.

Julie George, presently Canadian Women's Foundation Board co-chair, has been a philanthropist and committed volunteer in the non-profit sector for over 25 yrs.

Crystal Laborero is a band member of Sapotewayak Cree Nation and is presently self employed as a Consultant.

Ildiko Marshall has been involved with the Canadian Women's Foundation for over seven years and has served on the board for close to three years.

What is their objective/mission (who/what/where)?

As a women’s foundation, we specialize in helping women and 

girls move out of violence, out of poverty, and into confidence.

The key reasons they focus on women and girls:· 

• Improving gender equality improves economic and social conditions for everyone.
• Women and girls deserve a chance for a better life—free from violence, poverty, and rigid stereotypes that limit their potential.
• Women and girls face different kinds of economic and social challenges, which require different kinds of solutions.
• Helping women and girls is cost effective and creates very successful outcomes.

Across the globe, people are beginning to recognize the economic and social benefits of improving gender equality. End Sex Trafficking is linked to this global movement through membership in the Women’s Funding Network.

You can help stop the violence, end poverty, and empower girls.

What strategies/programs/projects are they using to meet this objective?

- A Campaign entitled “Donate Your Voice” which features men and women donating their voice to share the story of girls who have been sex trafficked. ---> Video is to the right.

- Investing nearly $2 million over three years to provide funding to organizations, conduct research and bring together experts on the Task Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada.

- The Canadian Women’s Foundation travelled across Canada in 2012 and 2013 to conduct in-depth consultations in eight cities with over 260 organizations, 160 young women/survivors of sex trafficking, and all levels of government.

-  The Task Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada is convening a National Round Table of experts from across the country who are working with girls and women who have been trafficked (front line community organizations, legal, medical and policing). The Task Force is also convening a National Round Table of women who are survivors of sex trafficking in Canada.

- The Task Force on Trafficking of Women and Girls in Canada is developing a National Anti-Trafficking Strategy that addresses issues and solutions in six priority areas:

- Service needs and gaps for trafficked and sexually exploited girls and women

- Public awareness and prevention strategies

- Relevant legal and policy issues

- Sector capacity building and training

- Government policy and funding

- Philanthropic strategies 

Why are these strategies effective or ineffective?

- It has allowed public polls to take place:

• 78% of Canadians agree that girls under the age of 16 are not in prostitution by choice
• 67% of Canadians agree that Canadian girls under the age of 16 are being recruited/trafficked to work in prostitution against their will.
• 70% of Canadians agree that women are brought into Canada from other countries and forced to work in prostitution against their will.

How is this organization funded?

End sex Trafficking is ran by a numorous amount of private foundations, and companies, such as:

-Leacross foundation, People Sense foundation, and the Ontario Trillium Foundation

-Twice a year, Winners and HomeSense do a special campaign to raise funds: Shop for Hope (Spring) and Hosting for Hope (Fall). Winners and HomeSense are national partners in the Canadian Women’s Foundation’s annual campaign to end violence against women.

-Avon supports programs across Canada that empower abused women and their children to rebuild their lives. In the Fall of 2013, Avon will be launching a special product to support their work to stop bullying and promote healthy relationships.· 

- CIBC is also a major donor to the Endowment Fund which ensures the permanence of Canadian Women’s Foundation. (Partner since 1995)

How to get involved?

Donate by mail:

The Canadian Women’s Foundation
133 Richmond St. W, Suite 504
Toronto, ON, M5H 2L3

Donate by phone:

Tel: 416.365.1444 ext. 0
Toll free: 1.866.293.4483 ext. 0
TTY: 416.365.1732

WAYS TO GIVE

• One time gift
• Donate in honour of someone
• Donate in memory of someone
• Make a gift of stock
• Remember us in your will
• Give at work
• Create an enduring legacy — for today and tomorrow.

Kristine Bertin and Esther Vos

Who runs/ works for this organization?

Kristine and Esther- Presidents

Don and Emma Vos & Dan and Hannah Bertin- Co-owners

Hailey Brandt (family friend)- Co-president

What is their objective/mission? (who/what/where)

Our mission is to allow women to feel secure and have protection over their rights. Also, to allow these individuals to feel safe in the environment they life in, and put a stop to this abuse by raising awareness.

What strategies/programs/projects are they using to meet this objective? 

By raising awareness across the world, accepting donations online, by email, or by phone. By advertising our organization with posters and bill boards that allow useful information. By producing TV commercials that enables the public to know how to help.

Why are these strategies effective or ineffective?

These strategies are effective because exposing information that values our organization encourages people to take action and feel the need/want to help. The many ways of donations and advertising makes sure we know our word is out, and there are multiple ways that people can help in stopping Human Trafficking.

How is this organization funded?

- Donations

- Fundraisers at events such as concerts, marathons ect.

- Our own pocket; due to saving up in the past years allows us to make a difference personally as well.

- Sponsors of companies.

How can you get involved?

- Making donations

- volunteering

- help us make awareness

Contact information:

Kristine Bertin- 1-204-837-2827

Esther Vos- 1-204-799-3845

Email us at: RunFree@shaw.ca

Fax- 1-204-289-2937

Mailing address;

31 Main street 

Toronto, Ontario

R8D 2K9

Rob Morris

Who runs/works for this organization?

Viyaleta Petrashkevich- Donations and Database Administrative Assistant

Steve Martin- CEO

Stephanie Goins- Executive Programs Director

Rob Morris- President & Co-founder

What is their objective/mission? (who/what/where)

The abolition of child trafficking and exploitation. Nothing
less. Abolition and Restoration! We combat child trafficking &
exploitation with the unexpected and restore survivors with excellence.

What strategies/programs/projects are they using to meet

this objective?

Love146 is a registered public charity

- You can help by donations

- Helping in fundraisers

- Volunteering

- Take part in events

Why are these strategies effective or ineffective?

These strategies are effective because the events that they hold explain how to get involved and what to do to raise awareness. It will provide valuable information to those working in this field. Together, as individuals, organizations, governments, can end child trafficking and exploitation.

How is this organization funded?

Love146 is a registered public charity, and takes donations all across the world.

How can you get involved?

-  Join a task force

- Fundraising

- Events and speakers

- Support their work

- Donate

Contact information:

INFO@LOVE146.ORG

203.772.4420  ||  MON - FRI 9-5 EST

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW IN NEED OF URGENT HELP? CALL THE US NATIONAL TRAFFICKING HOTLINE: 1-888-3737-888

In one experience, a couple of our co-founders were taken undercover 

with investigators to a brothel where they witnessed children being sold for sex. 

We found ourselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room, looking at little girls through a pane of glass. All of the girls wore red dresses with a number pinned to their dress for identification.

They sat, blankly watching cartoons on TV. They were vacant, shells of what a child should be. There was no light in their eyes, no life left. Their light had been taken from them. These children…raped each night… seven, ten, fifteen times every night. They were so young. Thirteen, eleven… it was hard to tell. Sorrow covered their faces with nothingness.

Except one girl. One girl who wouldn’t watch the cartoons. Her number was 146. She was looking beyond the glass. She was staring out at us with a piercing gaze. There was still fight left in her eyes. There was still life left in this girl…

…All of these emotions begin to wreck you. Break you. It is agony. It is aching. It is grief. It is sorrow. The reaction is intuitive, instinctive. It is visceral. It releases a wailing cry inside of you. It elicits gut-level indignation. It is unbearable. I remember wanting to break through the glass. To take her away from that place. To scoop up as many of them as I could into my arms. To take all of them away. I wanted to break through the glass to tell her to keep fighting. To not give up. To tell her that we were coming for her…”

Because we went in as part of an ongoing, undercover investigation on this particular brothel, we were unable to immediately respond. Evidence had to be collected in order to bring about a raid and eventually justice on those running the brothel. It is an immensely difficult problem when an immediate response cannot address an emergency. Some time later, there was a raid on this brothel and children were rescued. But the girl who wore #146 was no longer there. We do not know what happened to her, but we will never forget her. She changed the course of all of our lives.”

We have taken her number so that we remember why this all started. So that we must tell her story. It is a number that was pinned to one girl but that represents the millions enslaved. We wear her number with honor, with sorrow, and with a growing hope. Her story can be a different one for so many more.

Love is the foundation of our name because it is our motivating drive to end the trafficking and exploitation of children. We hold true what Martin Luther King Jr. said,

“Justice at its best is love correcting

everything that stands against love.”