Modern slavery and homelessness
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Modern slavery is happening in your city, your town, and perhaps even your village. Watch the video to hear Miriam's story and learn how you can stop modern slavery in your community.
Throughout the year, hundreds of churches and community groups across the UK are running drop-in centres for homeless people. Over the winter, thousands more host night shelters. Traffickers, preying on the most vulnerable in our society, are targeting these same drop-in centres and night shelters, looking for workers to exploit.
We have filmed four videos to help projects working with homeless people look out for modern slavery and protect their guests from it. Watch them all at www.theclewerinitiative.org/homeless
We say hello to Ed Saville from the Diocese of Blackburn, and learn how the diocese is raising awareness of modern slavery in the north west.
We are proudly working in collaboration with Mothers’ Union in order to end modern slavery by 2030.
Kevin Hyland, the former Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, recently gave a speech at a meeting convened by the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul. He speaks about the role faith communities can have in ending modern slavery.
Our project lead in the Diocese of Lichfield, James Henderson, recently worked with the West Midlands branch of the Big Issue to deliver a modern slavery training to a group of their sellers. We found out how it went.
Getting ready for 2019? Find a full list of dates you can use to kick start your awareness raising for the year.
One project lead takes our new schools resources on a road trip around her diocese, hear from her how they were received.
At the end of October, the Archbishop of Canterbury made an official visit to the Diocese of Rochester. He led a service at the Cathedral entitled ‘Setting the Captives Free’, a time for prayer, reflection, and commissioning in response to Modern Slavery.
Our first Northern Province Networking event was at Bishopthorpe Palace, and saw us welcoming delegates from 10 different dioceses.
Tell us how you and your local community are involved in the fight against modern slavery?
