NFS World News
From Thailand: Everyone Should Be Free2Play
The 130 children rescued from exploitation at Kru Nam’s village in Northern Thailand are set to take part in a very special annual Free2Play camp. For the next three days, 20 volunteers from three continents will lead workshops in sports, music, and art. David Batstone, NFS’ President and Co-Founder, will participate in the camp along with his family. Batstone states this is the most important, memorable, and moving week of the entire year.
From HQ: Join with NFS and Causes in an Innovative New Campaign
This week, David Batstone, President of Not For Sale, spoke to more than 200 attendees at Causes‘ office about the forthcoming REBBL Tea, an innovative social enterprise that will directly benefit communities in the Amazon who are at high risk for Human Trafficking. The delicious cold-brewed tea comes in four flavors and is made from all-natural [...]
Free2Play: Major League Baseball Players Fighting Slavery
More than 17 Major League Baseball players – from at least eight different teams – have joined the fight against human trafficking by pledging to donate to Not For Sale’s Free2Play initiative. Not For Sale, an anti-trafficking organization based in California, set up the Free2Play platform as a way to fund athletic programs for victims of human trafficking. The CNN Freedom Project spoke to a few of those players about the issue of modern-day slavery and why they’re taking up the cause.
Making Great Strides at NFS South Africa
Three years ago, when Not For Sale first began working in South Africa, traffickers – if convicted, were charged with kidnapping and other less serious crimes. Recently, Justice Portfolio Committee Chairperson Luwellyn Landers announced that as soon as next month, the Parliament will pass the Prevention and Combating of Trafficking in Persons Bill –criminalizing human trafficking, prostitution, and forced labor.
From NFS Ohio: Faith Communities are Not For Sale
This past week, NFS Ohio Director Stephanie Ulmer and the Director of the Abolitionist Faith Community, Kevin Austin, gathered in Akron, OH presenting to over 700 community members. Both leaders spoke during church services and workshops, educating attendees on the modern-day abolitionist movement, and providing actionable steps each participant can take to re-abolish slavery in our lifetime.
ACADEMIC ACTIVISM | “Your Education is Your Advocacy.”
The challenge is this: to encourage and inspire true Academic Activism. I see this as Not For Sale’s core competency; giving individuals, communities, companies, institutions, and industries different entry points into activism. I am an academic. I am a social entrepreneur. I am a data analyst. I am a business executive. I am a baseball player. I can be all of these things and be an abolitionist, an activist.
The Plain White T’s are Free2Rock
Not For Sale and the Plain White T’s are eager to kick off this month’s Free2Rock campaign in an international effort to end modern-day slavery by creating new futures for the world’s most vulnerable. The American pop band teamed up with Not For Sale to design an exclusive limited-edition Free2Rock T-shirt to end slavery, only available from today until April 6, for $24.
Historic Day for Not For Sale | From Amsterdam
Today, NFS President David Batstone and NFS Netherlands Director Toos Heemskerk took to the streets in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, delivering soup to over 50 women working behind the windows.
Today’s homemade nutritious soups, red Thai coconut curry and gourmet tomato basil, was prepared by Chef Thomas of Soup en Zo and delivered by the NFS Amsterdam team.
From HQ: Montara Circle Update
At the third Montara Circle held in Montara, California last week, David Batstone welcomed fifty of the most brilliant minds in business, academia, technology, and popular culture, stating “this is where business, philanthropy, and social justice come together. By bridging and combining the diverse expertise of each attendee, Montara Circle serves as an integral solution-generating mechanism that leads to actionable steps to end modern-day slavery.”
