Diana Scimone Born2Fly Stop Human Trafficking
Why is human trafficking still going on? Listen as Michelle interviews Diana on what we can all do to stop it, and how trafficking happens all over the world, including the USA.
Most kids are lured into sex slavery because they don’t know the deceptive tactics of traffickers. Wherever awareness training takes place, the rate of trafficking plummets. There’s just not enough, nor is it available in the languages of most at-risk kids.
The Born to Fly Project is a strategic 4-stage plan to educate kids, parents, and teachers about the dangers of child trafficking—with the ultimate goal of ending it.
Stage 1: Write a children’s book called Born to Fly, an allegory about the world of child trafficking that teaches kids to make wise choices as they pursue their dreams.
Stage 2: Develop a wordless book based on the Born to Fly storyline and distribute it to kids worldwide. Why wordless? So we don’t have to translate it into hundreds of languages—saving thousands of hours and dollars.
Stage 3: Produce a companion curriculum to teach children the important concepts found in the wordless book, and distribute it to schools, community centers, and NGOs worldwide.
Stage 4: Create multimedia awareness materials including posters, fliers, DVDs, web-based games, etc. to supplement and expand on the B2F message.
The Born to Fly materials can be used for years to come. They have the potential to change the lives of millions of children as we teach them, “You were born to fly—don’t settle for less.”
Most kids get lured into the dark world of sex slavery because they don’t know the deceptive tactics of traffickers. Someone shows up in a village and offers to educate the girls. “Just sign here,” he tells the parents, who never see their daughters again.
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Michelle Vandepas is an entrepreneur, seeker of truth, questioner and overall impatient person. You can Hire Michelle Vandepas for internet consultations or interviewing, speaking and workshops. To find out more please contact michellevandepas at gmail or Twitter | Facebook
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This is one of your most important interviews.
This idea of a wordless book is so revolutionary.
I hope that Diana is not going to neglect the US schools in her endeavor.
One of the principal places for human trafficing is any Greyhound bus terminal in a major city.
Pimps patrol those to find young women who are mostly runaways and offer support. They usually arrive with nothing.
I met many of these women in a program I volunteered to do with the Chicago courts.
They were arrested for prostitution. If they are not already hooked on drugs when they arrive, these pimps make sure they are.
Then they are in bondage to these men who are the only game in town for them. They are not only supposed to bring the money home but supply them with drugs too. It is a never ending circle of abuse.
Why don’t they just leave? To go where? Most have little education. The social service agencies try to help but so many programs have been cut.
You don’t have to go outside your own city in the US to see trafficing.
This is such an important topic and so often overlooked in our society. Thanks for bringing it to light; you probably helped save several lives along the way. Blessings.
Checking the Comment system, is this system working or not…..