Monday, September 16, 2013

Human Trafficking and the Super Bowl

On Monday, September 16, Sister Joseph Spring and Sister Mary Irene Sorber attended the NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking workshop in preparation for the 2014 Super Bowl to be held in the Meadowlands, NJ. The workshop was held at Jewish Federation Center in Whippany, NJ in order to help those present to be prepared to collectively make contact with over 150 hotels in the New Jersey area in preparation for Super Bowl XLVIII.

The NJ Coalition Against Human Trafficking efforts around Super Bowl XLVIII focus on:
  • Raising awareness about human trafficking
  • Mobilizing volunteers around anti-trafficking efforts with a specific focus on the tourism and travel industry.
  • Supporting and partnering with the New Jersey Attorney General's Human Trafficking Task Force efforts.
  • Strengthening relationships with and among New Jersey-based anti-trafficking organizations.
  • Building infrastructure at the grassroots to fight human trafficking with an emphasis on high schools, colleges, religious organizations, municipal organizations and community-based organizations including men's and minority organizations.
 
Further information can be found at http://www.ecpatusa.org/ and http://www.njhumantrafficking.org/
 
 
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2 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 18, 2013 at 7:09 PM

    This is such an important outreach and I am proud that our community is making efforts to be involved and to work against this form of slavery.

    Thank you for sharing, Sister!
    ~SMClare

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  2. SCC JPIC BlogSeptember 19, 2013 at 11:05 AM

    You are welcome! I, too, am proud of our community's response to human trafficking, especially with regard to the Super Bowl and of all the religious communities who have done this when the Super Bowl was in New Orleans and in Indianapolis (and maybe others that I am not aware of).

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