TWO WAYS YOU CAN HELP MOST MINISTRIES:

• Make a donation to MOST Ministries so we can send out additional short-term mission teams with the sole purpose of providing national pastors, lay leaders and teachers with the education they need to identify areas of possible exploitation within their communities. Click here to make a donation.
   
• Organize a fundraiser and donate the proceeds to MOST Ministries.

For More Information Contact Sarah DePriest at:

• Phone: 734.994.7909 X 
• Email: sdepriest@mostministries.org

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OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP:

• Learn the red flags that may indicate human trafficking and ask follow-up questions so that you can help identify a potential trafficking victim. Human trafficking awareness training is available for individuals, businesses, first responders, law enforcement, and federal employees.
   
• In the United States, contact the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 1.888.373.7888 (24/7) to get help and connect with a service provider in your area, report a tip with information on potential human trafficking activity; or learn more by requesting training, technical assistance, or resources. Call federal law enforcement directly to report suspicious activity and get help from the Department of Homeland Security at 866.347.2423 (24/7), or submit a tip online at www.ice.gov/tips, or from the U.S. Department of Justice at 888.428.7581 from 9:00A-5:00P (EST). Victims, including undocumented individuals, are eligible for services and immigration assistance.
   
• Be a conscientious consumer. Discover your Slavery Footprint by taking the Slavery Footprint Survey and check out the Department of Labor's List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. Encourage companies, including your own, to take steps to investigate and eliminate slavery and human trafficking in their supply chains and to publish information for consumer awareness.
   
• Incorporate human trafficking information into your professional associations' conferences, trainings, manuals, and other relevant materials.
   
• Join or start a grassroots anti-trafficking coalition.
   
• Meet with and/or write to your local, state, and federal government representatives to let them know that you care about combating human trafficking in your community, and ask what they are doing to address human trafficking in your area.
   
• Distribute public awareness materials available from the Department of Health and Human Services or the Department of Homeland Security.
   
• Volunteer to do victim outreach or offer your professional services to a local anti-trafficking organization.
   
• Host an awareness event to watch and discuss a recent human trafficking documentary. On a larger scale, host a human-trafficking film festival.
   
• Encourage your local schools to include the issue of modern day slavery in their curriculum. As a parent, educator, or school administrator, be aware of how traffickers target school-aged children.
   
• Set up a Google Alert to receive current human trafficking news.
   
• Write a letter to the editor of your local paper about human trafficking in your community.
   
• Businesses: Provide internships, job skills training, and/or jobs to trafficking survivors.
   
• Students: Take action on your campus. Join or establish a university or secondary school club to raise awaress about human trafficking and initiate action throughout your local community. Consider doing one of your research papers on a topic concerning human trafficking.
   
• Professors: Request that human trafficking be an issue included in university curriculum. Increase scholarships about human trafficking by publishing an article, teaching a class, or hosting a symposium.
   
• Law Enforcement Officials: Join or start a local human trafficking task force.
   
• Mental Health or Medical Providers: Extend low-cost or free services to human trafficking victims assisted by nearby anti-trafficking organizations. Train your staff on how to identify the indicators of human trafficking and assist victims.
   
• Attorneys: Look for signs of human trafficking among your clients. Offer pro-bono services to trafficking victims or anti-trafficking organizations. Learn about and offer to human trafficking victims the legal benefits for which they are eligible. Assist anti-trafficking NGO's with capacity building and legal work.