Climb for Captives Trailer

Check out the Climb for Captives video from their successful summit of Mt Rainier. You can watch it here or here:

Changing the World One Mountain at a Time!

The Climb for Captives team is leaving for Mt. Rainier in just over a week and they need your help to raise $40,000 to rescue children who are being sold into the sex trade in India. Check out this recent blog post about how a family in British Columbia, Canada is joining in the fight against Human Trafficking.

Garage Sales Save Lives

We have been working hard to promote the Climb for Captives in hopes of raising awareness about Human Trafficking and bringing true, tangible freedom to children who are forced into the sex trade in India. This effort takes a lot of time and a lot of energy from all of us on the Climb for Captives team, but when we hear stories like this we are reminded about the importance of what we are doing and we are inspired to keep pushing forward in hopes that one more life will be saved. Last weekend a Canadian family outside of Vancouver, British Columbia decided to have a garage sale and donate all of the money to Climb for Captives. Their kids began spreading the word around the neighborhood and telling their friends that children around the world are suffering and need help. One little girl, after hearing about the kids in India, went home and sold her pet fish to her brother for $8.15 and promptly donated the money to Climb for Captives. Incredible.

When it was all said and done the family, in addition to raising awareness about the reality and prevalence of Human Trafficking, was able to raise $850 dollars at their garage sale, to help rescue victims in India. Once again, incredible!

We hope that you are as encouraged and inspired by this story as we were. Anyone can make a difference and every little bit helps…even a per gold fish can help to forever change a life. Dream with us about how you might join the Climb for Captives. Visit www.climbforcaptives.com to find out more.

Climb for Captives is back...

The guys from Climb for Captives are at it again. This year the goal is to raise $40,000 for IJM to rescue victims of Human Trafficking in India. Check out www.climbforcaptives.com to find out more.

Upcoming Event in Seattle, WA

There are only two more days to register for the Unbound Conference which is taking place on May 8-9 in Seattle.  Registration is $10.

Come learn more about how you can make a difference in the fight against human trafficking.

In the news:

100 Arrested in Bay Area Prostitution sting

A Dozen Juvenile Sex Rings Broken Up

Fighting back in Seattle

FBI busts child prostitution rings

The Abolition in Seattle

The Abolition is a student-led group at Seattle Pacific University

committed to uncovering and combating human trafficking in Seattle.

If anyone is interested in learning how you can join in the fight against human trafficking,

please join The Abolition this Tuesday, Oct 21 from 6-7pm in the Emerson Lobby

(building #57 on http://www.spu.edu/info/maps/index.html)

ALL are welcome, SPU and non-SPU folks!

Human trafficking is happening here...

Articles from Thursday Oct 16, 2008:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/383390_slavery16.html

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/382834_prostitution11.html

CALL+RESPONSE Follow Up in Seattle

Thank you all who attended last week's premiere of CALL+RESPONSE in Seattle-- CLICK HERE to find the 33 ways you can respond to the reality of human trafficking and modern day slavery.

Also, mark your calendars for the upcoming Re.member Tour:

Re.member Tour
October 16, 7pm
Seattle Pacific University

This event will be held in First Free Methodist Church, on the corner of Seattle Pacific University's campus.
The RE.MEMBER tour offers the truthful struggle of two survivors of human trafficking. From Rani's and Trong's childhoods to today, you will take a visual and verbal journey through years of struggle, isolation and hope. You will come away with a defined understanding of what human trafficking is and how we can be the voice to see its end. You will learn about Homes of Freedom, the initiative of The Tronie Foundation that built the first ever safe haven in the Northwest for human trafficking survivors.

Please see http://www.troniefoundation.org/remember.shtml
for more information!