Anti-slavery campaign gains momentum
Empangeni Christian School joins the fight against anti-slavery.
ANOTHER local school has heeded the wake-up call to take a serious look at slavery and how this ancient practice is making a pandemic reappearance in modern days, especially in targeted communities with vulnerable women and children.
The Empangeni Christian School joined the challenge, issued by Pastor Caroline Pitout of the AGS Kerk Sonder Mure, to wear a red cross, marking their resistance to human trafficking and endeavouring to create a ripple effect of awareness among the youth.
Pastor Pitout voiced the goal of the END IT movement to shine a light on slavery on behalf of millions of people around the globe, shackled to prostitution, forced labour and pornography.
She said the church is adding its weight to the resistance movement by starting at grass roots level by educating children about the dangers in a language and level they are able to understand.
The END IT movement is a coalition 16 of the world’s leading organisations in the fight for freedom, arming communities with knowledge and focusing on awareness, prevention, rescue and restoration of victims.
END IT also launched their newest platform, 27×7, which asks supporters to create their own team of Freedom Fighters by recruiting 27 friends, family members, co-workers, neighbours and acquaintances in an effort to raise funds on behalf of coalition members working in different sectors and countries.
According to available resources from the different coalition partners, more people are trapped in slavery around the world today than any other time in history.
Slavery is described as the complete control of one person over another, using violence or the threat of violence to maintain that control.
