At the beginning of the year, Manpower and The Not For Sale Campaign joined forces to advance the fight against human trafficking. Manpower is the primary sponsor of the Stop Paying for Slavery Tour. This tour has a particular focus on introducing the next generation of business leaders to supply chain monitoring programs and the power of social entrepreneurship. The partnership aims to raise awareness among businesses, governments and communities with regard to the challenges of exposing and combating human trafficking.
Every coin in your pocket and dollar in your bank has a face value – a precise amount that is listed on your bills and coins. But for every coin and dollar you have there is another, more significant face value. The face of the young boy mining tantalum in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the face of the little girl farming cocoa beans in Cote D’ Ivoire, the face of a father making bricks in India, the face of the mother selling her body in Cambodia. These faces are hidden behind company logos, corporate brands, and even “Made in the USA” tags
Brought to you by our partners at Manpower, Inc., the Not For Sale Campaign’s 2010 “Stop Paying for Slavery Tour” educates corporations and consumers on the true face value of our dollars. Our everyday actions can have monumental repercussions for those in captivity. We will see change once we not only address the supply side of the equation, but also the demand side: the corporations using cotton harvested by small children forced into labor, and the consumers who complicitly purchase the t-shirts.
Each of us has purchasing power that can perpetuate or end the modern-day slave trade. The “Stop Paying for Slavery Tour” will educate, enlighten, and inspire to that end.
Are you ready to join the Movement?
(Taken from Not For Sale Website, visit them to see if they are coming to a city near you- http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/events/stop-paying-for-slavery/)
