The following blog post comes to us from Adriel Vigo, founder of the Austin Free Project chapter, who has been working individually and with the larger chapter to raise awareness of trafficking in the Austin area and beyond. Make sure to check out the flier that the chapter distributed to local […]
The following blog post comes to us from Mary Toohey, president of the Gardner-Webb University’s Release Club, a chapter of the Free Project. Mary reflects on Release’s major Fall event: a concert featuring the Rory Tyer Band benefiting the organization Challenging Heights. She also provides insight into how to improve […]
Gardner-Webb University’s Free Project chapter — Release the Captives — planned and executed a great event in Spring 2015. Hoping to inspire other Free Project chapters, Chris Beguhl (Release the Captives’ Secretary) sent us this report: The annual 2014-2015 Human Trafficking Awareness Week at Gardner-Webb University was a success this […]
Our leadership team visited Polaris Project and the National Human Trafficking Resource Center today where we met with Jennifer Kimball, NHTRC Operations Coordinator and Brian Tan. Jennifer gave us a tour of the Hotline’s call center, where we learned more about states that are under-engaged in reporting human trafficking. We […]
TFP at GW collected, sorted and donated over $18,000 worth of clothing from GW students to Courtney’s House. Tina Frundt, survivor of child sex trafficking, and Tami Fenno, Director of Operations, were thrilled with the generous support. CH rescues survivors off the streets and in the cold winter months the […]
We’ve launched our petition on Change.org to make The George Washington University slavery-free! Join us in asking President Knapp to make GW a slavery-free campus by the 2014 academic year. Together we can lead the way for other universities to eradicate slavery from their communities, because “Injustice anywhere is a threat to […]
Our chapter has signed up to be a part of The FREE Project team for the annual Stop Modern Slavery Walk in Washington, DC! We’re excited to raise money for great anti-slavery organizations like Courtney’s House, Challenging Heights, Free the Slaves, Polaris Project, and more. We’re really excited to join together with other passionate […]
This past week, we filmed a video calling on our university’s president to make the pledge to make GW a “slavery free campus” as part of our Slavery-Free GW Campaign. We had an amazing time shooting (despite a sprinkling of rain) and it was wonderful to see so many students […]
You’d think campus would be empty during the summer, but we were surprised to see how many peeps were in town working internships and taking classes. We decided to take advantage of the opportunity to hit up our classmates while they were less distracted than during the regular school year, […]
