Estimated: 200,000 dead 250,000 injured 1.5 million displaced
National Human Trafficking Awareness Month
President Obama has declared January National Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Come educate yourself on our website and find out the five easy steps you can do now.
Monday, January 11, 2010 is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
what are you going to do to help millions of victims around the world?
YOU can talk about this with your friends and family about the this dangerous industry. Get on Facebook, Twitter, etc. and spread the word!
You can support ITEMP right now with our Matching Gift Donation. All donations given through the end of January will be doubled by some very special donors.
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The Institute for Trafficked, Exploited & Missing Persons is a "program without borders" of the non-denominational international charity, The GOD'S CHILD Project. To learn more about this humanitarian effort, Click Here Now.
Discuss the Issues of HumanTrafficking and Contemporary Slavery in your community and raise social awareness about these scourges. Use our Basic Facts,Take Action, andResearch DatabaseSections to help.
Use theContact Us form to schedule a professional ITEMP speaker to come talk to your school, community or church group about the horrors of poverty, human trafficking, and contemporary slavery.
Photos by Taylor Aubin
"We believe that every person has the right to live their life free from slavery, coercion, and fear. Quite simply, this is why we do what we do."
ITEMP Founder and International Executive Director Patrick Atkinson
ITEMP Receives Grant from U.S State Department for Victim Rehaiblitation
The Institute for Trafficked, Exploited & Missing Persons (ITEMP) has recently accepted an $240,000 grant from the U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. The two year grant, will allow ITEMP to investigate, rescue and rehabilitate trafficking victims in Guatemala.
With this new grant, ITEMP will be able to rescue even more children, forced to work in the landfills, rock quarries and brothels of Guatemala.
According to Patrick Atkinson, International Executive Director of ITEMP, "These are our children. This is our future generation, our offspring, our souls, sold for sex to anyone who will pay."
ITEMP looks forward to this partnership with the U.S. Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, and its dedicated personnel. ITEMP would also like to extend a special thank you to the North Dakota Congressional Delegation as well as Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger for there letters of support.
Now the important work of rescuing and rehabilitating victims begins.
Photo by Taylor Aubin
Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW On This Web Site:
◊ Check out ITEMP's new Basics Facts Page and our new 'Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery Sheet Basic Facts Sheet' that you can download and use with your school, community, or church group.
◊ Browse through ITEMP's New Photo Gallery.
◊ Decide that you are going to be part of the solution to this worldwide problem.
◊ Contact us and come volunteer. ITEMP through a worldwide network of individual and community-based volunteers. You can become directly involved, too.
Announcing our 2009 Matching Gift Challenge!
Through the generosity and effort of some special donors, every gift we raise between now and January 31 will be doubled with a matching gift donation. For example, a $100 gift would actually result in$200 being made available to help the thousands of children served by The GOD’S CHILD Project and ITEMP!
Donate today and your contribution will be doubled!
Click Here Now to learn about "The Dream Maker"; author Monica Hannan's
riveting biography of ITEMP founder Patrick Atkinson, and his life,
work, and battles against war, prostitution, and poverty to set the
children free.
Click Here Now to learn more about the ITEMP-organized and administered 1st Guatemalan Congress on Trafficked Persons.
Please come back frequently. This web site is always under development.
