Additional Notable Activity

Additional notable activity for us has included:

  • We are Tokyo in Tulsa’s charity for 2010.
  • We contacted every psychology, sociology, nursing, political science, history, criminal justice and religious professor from 44 Oklahoma universities and colleges about having speakers for human trafficking, providing a human trafficking course or engaging students in some way in human trafficking activity. We received positive feedback from 13 colleges and 30 specific professors. OATH has built on those initial contacts and spoken at and/or coordinated events at those 13 colleges. Chapter 61 has the promise of summer interns from one of those colleges.
  • We now have a TAT brochure available.
  • One of our members has been named lead counsel for sexual abuse human trafficking cases in Bexar County, TX.
  • Members attended human trafficking seminars, meetings, trainings, including how to conduct a Human Trafficking 101 training through Praxus in Colorado
  • We’ve been picked up as the domestic project for iEmpathize and they will be creating an 8-10 minute training DVD for us to be sent to trucking safety directors and trucker trainer websites.
  • We started a quarterly TAT newsletter, with the first issue released in January 2010.
  • We sent out an appeal letter and through that and other fundraising efforts, we ended the year with $2,445.94 in expenditures and $4,864.57 in assets.
  • On behalf of the Elisha Network (a Colorado based anti-human trafficking church network) Chapter 61 organized a human trafficking training for local pastors in order to help get their congregations involved in the fight against human trafficking. Results: Fifty pastors attended the Denver Pastors' Luncheon, held at Wellspring Church, Englewood, Colorado, on March 3, 2009. Phil Gazley, Youth With a Mission (YWAM) director for City Initiative, did an excellent job presenting, and iEmpathize had a powerful art exhibit of human trafficking artifacts on display. The Elisha Network, a network geared toward getting the Denver metro churches to work together on this issue, had some folks sign up and request speaking engagements at their church. Brad Riley, of iEmpathize, also received requests for exhibits at various churches.

 

 
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