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Awareness will make the difference By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
The International Day to End Trafficking in Persons July 30 was a fitting day for more than 150 people to come out and support the culmination of Project OnRoute, designed to raise awareness of the issue of human sex trafficking along the Highway 401 corridor. At the Tilbury OnRoute South location, politicians,
police services, community and women’s groups and the public gathered in support of the Courage for Freedom organization campaign to raise awareness of the fact the 401 corridor is used to transport young women and men to different locations where they are forced to provide sexual services to johns for money. In Canada, 80 per cent of victims are Canadian citizens, organizers reported to the crowd.
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About 150 people, including politicians, police agencies, women’s and community groups, including these young ladies, showed up to the Tilbury South OnRoute to support the video awareness campaign on human trafficking and sexual exploitation called Project OnRoute. That campaign ended July 30 and a new campaign, Project Maple Leaf, will begin in February 2020 on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
The Tilbury OnRoute location was one of 11 across Ontario to air a public service announcement for the final time on Tuesday as part of the #ProjectOnRoute campaign that had the potential to reach more than 16.5-million views across the province. That campaign is being replaced by a similar initiative called
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#ProjectMapleLeaf, slated to begin on the next National Human Trafficking Awareness Day on Feb. 22, 2020. Anne Roy, a member of the Catholic Women’s League, helped organize the event and said awareness in the media is spreading to the public and more is needed to protect our young people
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from traffickers who lure them from their communities and force them into the sex trade. “This project is going to need your help, ensuring more awareness, more screens in more locations like national coffee shops, with more survivor-created ads, more conversations, community work, government support and
safety for victims and survivors in a non-objectified, non-discriminating manner,” Roy said. Essex OPP detachment commander, Insp. Glenn Miller, was on hand and spoke passionately about what he said is one of the “most heinous crimes that we have – it’s modern day slavery.”
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