SHORT TERM, we want to empower concerned and committed individuals to form a community that speaks on behalf of trafficking victims. Our digital world allows collaboration to exist on multiple platforms. We want to provide a new geography for advocacy—a virtual space that spills over into the neighborhoods and streets of our city.
Here’s what it might look like: a friend mentions that they heard Atlanta is the number one metropolis in the nation dealing with human trafficking. You want to do something, so you search “stop human trafficking” in Google, and find Meet Justice’s website. You read our latest blog on how airports and hotels become the site of crime during sporting events. You love football and have a huge party planned for the Super Bowl—including business friends from out-of-state. So, you download our “Awareness Works Party Guide” and host a conversation on trafficking during half time. At the close of the party, everyone donates five contacts or five dollars. You’ve collected 50 new people to talk to about what’s happening in your city and over $500 dollars to buy appliances for Wellspring Living’s newest home for recovering women. One of your friends is inspired by your party and does the same thing next year—with all his relatives and co-workers!
Through an online magazine producing quality articles, images, press kits, and tool kits, anyone can join the fight and know what’s going on, who’s making things happen, and how they can be a part of it. Fostering a collection of materials and networks fighting against trafficking will establish a system of justice that can displace the current system of oppression.
LONG TERM, we want to establish campaigns that will accomplish clear and innovative solutions to gaps in the Rescue System. Recognition, response, restoration, and review are all essential to the rescue process that prevents victimization and provides life after survival.
Here’s what it might look like: while preparing a new issue of our online magazine, we come across an article that says 28% of trafficking victims will pass through an emergency department each year. That means almost a third of trafficking victims could be rescued each year if healthcare providers were trained to recognize and respond. So, we commissioned a curriculum from a passionate medical professional and applied for continuing education credits throughout the state of Georgia. With a team of volunteer trainers and support personnel, we now offer training and online resources through Meet Justice Medical.
Through providing operational support and management to various campaigns, we can target specific goals in the Rescue System and create collaborative solutions with your voice: skills, passions, connections, and resources. As these campaigns grow and mature, we launch them as independent organizations, populating our city with teams of empowered, engaged, skilled companies fighting against injustice.
Through grassroots mobilization that accumulates a host of voices and specific campaigns that accomplish innovative solutions, Meet Justice can personalized your impact on global social issues. It’s your world. Your voice. Your change.
