FREEDOM SUNDAY
We challenge local congregations and groups to particpate in Freedom Sunday on February 26, 2012 to raise awareness and funds to combat slavery through specific prevention and intervention projects. ICCM's "Stand for Children" initiative in India will directly benefit. Register and receive local congregational participation resources for Freedom Sunday 2012 at www.freedomsunday.org
SPONSORSHIP: #1 DEFENSE AGAINST CHILD TRAFFICKING
Many anti-trafficking and human rights advocates agree that international child sponsorship is the #1 defense against slavery and child trafficking. Sponsoring a child today has an immediate impact as well as a long-term trajectory of change and hope for an at-risk child.
ICCM VIDEO ON CHILD TRAFFICKING
View our brief, recently-developed video on child trafficking featuring new abolitionist Kevin Austin. View it at this link.
INDIA - "STAND FOR CHILDREN"
ICCM is cooperating with the Freedom Sunday initiative and the Not For Sale Campaign to initiate a major anti-trafficking effort in India in 2012. Information about our "Stand for Children" project is available at right.
THAILAND - LAHU PROJECT
With funds contributed in 2011 through Freedom Sunday, ICCM a hostel for children of the Lahu Tribe in Thailand who are a high risk for trafficking is now under construction. Learn more about our Lahu Project at this link.
HELP US END CHILD TRAFFICKING
Become a new abolitionist. Join ICCM and others to end 21st-Century slavery
There's a rising global scourge in this century. It is the spectre of slavery and trafficking of children and youth. Today, millions of young people are being held against their will and used for forced labor, commercial sex trafficking, and to pay down family debts. ICCM is linking arms with anti-trafficking advocates around the world and invites our friends and sponsors to join with us to wipe out this terrible reality and bring freedom to those in bondage.
"STAND FOR CHILDREN" ON FREEDOM SUNDAY
ICCM is initiating "Stand for Children" with the Free Methodist Church in India in 2012. This project
- raises critical awareness of trafficking
- teaches children their rights
- empowers children and adults to speak up
- mobilizes intervention resources
- seeds an abolitionist culture of vigilance and proactivity among Free Methodist Churches in India.
"Stand for Children" is supported by offerings local Free Methodist Churches receive on Freedom Sunday, February 26.
Click below to open, print and copy our project challenge, tri-fold brochure and/or bulletin insert:
Stand For Children project description/challenge (PDF)
Stand For Children tri-fold brochure (PDF)
Stand For Children bulletin insert (PDF)
Click here to contribute to ICCM's "Stand for Children" initiative.
Click here to register for Freedom Sunday and access local church/group resources.
"STOP THE TRAFFICK" RESOURCES
ICCM is developing a series of discovery, event and action resources that engage youth and small groups in the challenge to end human trafficking and slavery that has surged to alarming levels at the beginning of the 21st Century.
"Stop the Traffick" resources will be available to download from this page on February 7. Please check back here for resources to download and receive via post mail.
A new and developing project for us, ICCM's "Stop the Traffick" resources will ultimately include:
- Large/small group teaching, game and interaction guide
- Small group discovery and discussion resources
- Group project/action options for combatting exploitation and trafficking
- Online links to resources on new abolitionism
- Bible studies on human slavery and liberation
- Freedom Sunday resources for groups and local churches