Modern slavery and homelessness
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Modern Slavery in Rural Areas
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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
Last year we signed up to partner with Mothers’ Union, a global organisation with a local focus. Recently we spoke to Christine Sharp, Mothers’ Union President in the Diocese of Manchester about a party that she held for a local safehouse run by the Medaille Trust.
Drivers who downloaded our Safe Car Wash app, launched last June to help raise awareness of modern slavery in hand car wash, used the app over 2000 times. 41% of their reports showed a high likelihood of modern slavery in the hand car wash.
Earlier in the year, the Diocese of Lichfield and Transforming Communities Together held an evening of action called Re:Dress, tackling the fashion industry and their role in modern slavery and the environment.
Each year the National Crime Agency releases an annual report of the statistics from the National Referral Mechanism. We’ve dug into the data to look beyond the headlines, and see what other stories are hiding in the statistics.
The Clewer Initiative team recently went to visit a potato farm. Find out what we learnt about modern slavery (and potatoes!).
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.
Tell us how you and your local community are involved in the fight against modern slavery?
