With 40.3 million victims of modern slavery worldwide, you can’t stand by and do nothing.
Alone, you can’t do everything.
But you can do something.
Take the pledge to do #SomethingForSlavery.
Alone, you can’t do everything.
But you can do something.
Take the pledge to do #SomethingForSlavery.
TAKE THE PLEDGE
The #SomethingForSlavery Challenge has ended for 2018. Sign up below for updates on the 2019 Challenge.
WHY DO WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING?
Modern slavery is behind our clothes. Our coffee. Our phones. It’s in our own backyards.
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Boys as young as 10 years old, in Cote D'Ivoire, are trafficked from neighbouring countries to pick and harvest Cocoa beans for chocolate. |
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75 million people work to make our clothes, many in exploitative forced labour conditions. 80% of them are women. |
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1 x US CEO’s wage = 16,000 Bangladeshi workers’ wages. |
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In Cambodia the number of fake “orphanages” where children have one or more living parents has increased by 65% in the last 5 years, driven by the demand for orphanage volunteering from foreigners willing to pay a fee for the experience.
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HOW DOES IT WORK?
You’ll receive weekly challenges asking you to consider your slavery footprint.
Ask your favourite brand if they pay their workers a fair wage. Buy fair trade Easter eggs. Get a coffee in a cafe that supports survivors of trafficking in Australia. Write to your local member to ask them what they’re doing about modern slavery in your community.
Get aware. Get angry. Get active.
Share your progress on your socials to encourage others to join the movement - I am doing #SomethingForSlavery.
Ask your favourite brand if they pay their workers a fair wage. Buy fair trade Easter eggs. Get a coffee in a cafe that supports survivors of trafficking in Australia. Write to your local member to ask them what they’re doing about modern slavery in your community.
Get aware. Get angry. Get active.
Share your progress on your socials to encourage others to join the movement - I am doing #SomethingForSlavery.
WEEK 1: FASHION
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CHALLENGE #1:
Watch the True Cost (it's on Netflix!), the eye opening journey around the globe of the people and the places behind our clothes. Watch the trailer. Not on Netflix? You can watch here. CHALLENGE #2:
Take a photo of your clothing label and ask the brand #whomademyclothes? Share & tag the brand so they can see your question. More of a letter writer? Use this templateto get writing. CHALLENGE #3:
Download the Good On You app. Look up your 3 favourite brands and see how they rate on their impact on people, animals and the environment. Not impressed? Tell the brand! You can do this through the app. CHALLENGE #4:
Commit to #30wears before you purchase. Help break the cycle of fast fashion and wear your clothing at least 30 times before buying some new. Snap a photo of yourself in an item that means a lot to you (and has 30 wears!) & share your #lovedclotheslast story. Fashion Revolution's latest zine is full of great tips on how to make the clothes you love last for longer. CHALLENGE #5:
Sign the#WhatSheMakes pledge to let companies know that the women who make our clothes deserve to be paid a wage that provides a decent standard living. If brands absorbed the cost of paying living wages within their supply chains, it would cost them less than 1% of the price of a garment. |
WEEK 2: FOOD
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CHALLENGE #1:
Let's start with the first thing in the day: coffee. You might scoff at your $4.50 latte but many coffee farmers receive as little as 3 cents a cup. Let's make every 16.3 million cups of coffee we Australians drink daily count. Everyday of the week, make sure your cup is Fairtrade certified. Snap a photo with your coffee, share & thank the cafe for doing #SomethingForSlavery! CHALLENGE #2:
Get cooking! Brownies? BBQ salmon? Choc cake? Spaghetti marinara? Choose your chocolate or seafood dish of choice & cook it with heart. Source your ingredients with the lives behind them in mind. Use Stop the Traffik's Chocolate Guide, Greenpeace's Prawn Guide and the Fairtrade product listing to get started. CHALLENGE #3:
Host a tea party! Start a conversation on modern slavery and our power as consumers over a good cuppa. Use Fairtrade's Tea Guide to find your tea. And why not do a Traffik Free Easter Egg Hunt while you're at it? CHALLENGE #4:
Say thank you! In a positive step, more and more retailers are stocking certified chocolate. Order some of Stop the Traffik's thank you cards and let them know you want them to keep up the good work! Learn more about the retailers & their commitments. CHALLENGE #5:
Are you in Sydney? Grab brekkie this weekend at The Freedom Hub, a slave free business for good, where 100% of the profits go to supporting survivors of modern slavery in Australia. Snap a photo of your meal & share - #SomethingForSlavery, @freedomhuborg. |
WEEK 3: TRAVEL
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CHALLENGE #1: Be a smart traveller & volunteer. WATCH Who wants to be a volunteer? ABC's Head First, The Orphan Business.Short version. Full episode. READ The Faces of Tourism Travel Ethics. Should a bad state get in the way of a good holiday? CHALLENGE #2:
Share your top tip for responsible travel. Our world is an interconnected place and travelling responsibly, whether it's caring for our environment, using locally operated tour guides or supporting community projects, is an opportunity to be a force for good for those employed in the tourism industry and the many others whose lives are impacted by it. Get started with these tips. CHALLENGE #3:
Rethink volunteering in an orphanage. Despite the best intentions, volunteering with orphaned children whilst on holidays, is in many cases, the reason they are separated from their family in the first place, trafficked into orphanages, to meet volunteer demand. Visit Rethink Orphanages, learn more & be part of the change for children. Spread the world on your socials. CHALLENGE #4:
Download the Traffick Cam app. When you next travel, take 4 photos of your hotel room & upload them to the app. Traffickers regularly take photos of their victims in hotel rooms for online advertisements. Your photos contribute to a database that is used to match photos and locate and prosecute traffickers. |
WEEK 4: BUILD THE MOVEMENT
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CHALLENGE #1:
Bring someone new to the conversation. Bring up modern slavery, and more importantly, what we can do about it. As the great Nelson Mandela said education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. |
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CHALLENGE #2:
Ask your MP what they're doing for Modern Slavery in their electorate. Where do they stand on the proposed Modern Slavery Act legislation? Contact your MP and read more about the Modern Slavery Act here. |
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CHALLENGE #3:
Share Anti-Slavery Australia's free online course on responding to and supporting survivors of trafficking with someone you know working on the frontline - a social worker, teacher or lawyer - or do the course together! Find out more & sign up. |
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CHALLENGE #4:
Choose one of the challenges from the last weeks: fashion,food & travel, and commit to continuing it beyond this week. Will you use the Good on You app to find ethical fashion? Will you buy Fairtrade chocolate? Will you look up your next hotel's policy on modern slavery? Share what you're committing to & don't forget to include #SomethingForSlavery so we can see too! |
We have our voice, our choices, our wallet and our vote.
We can demand transparency and fair conditions.
We can choose to support companies that value human rights as much as they value profit.
We can mobilise our family, friends and communities to do the same.
We can demand transparency and fair conditions.
We can choose to support companies that value human rights as much as they value profit.
We can mobilise our family, friends and communities to do the same.
We’re not saying it won’t be tough. It will require us to rethink our habits, our shopping and the way we travel.
But if you agree all people have the right to a free life then we have to make a start. Do #SomethingForSlavery.
But if you agree all people have the right to a free life then we have to make a start. Do #SomethingForSlavery.
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