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
"William Wilberforce convinced his generation that slavery was a sin. That belief has not changed. The sin lies in our ignorance to its existence around us. With this in mind I am delighted that the Church of England has set up The Clewer Initiative to help dioceses detect instances of modern slavery and to provide care to its victims."
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby
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.
We’re asking children from across the UK to Sing for Freedom with our song competition. PLUS new free modern slavery resources for schools!
Anti-Slavery day is on Thursday 18th October, and there are so many events happening around it. But why stop at one day? We’ve collated 7 days’ worth of activities, so you can raise awareness of modern slavery and trafficking all week!
William Wilberforce was a key figure in the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, and yet over 200 years after his bill was passed, we are still fighting slavery today. So what can we learn from his legacy? The Rt Revd Simon Burton-Jones, Bishop of Tonbridge, shares his thoughts.
Tell us how you and your local community are involved in the fight against modern slavery?
