Two Mid-South organizations team up for Human Trafficking Awareness Month
“At the end of the day, it is discouraging to know that that number is likely higher, said Rachel Haaga, Restore Corps. Author: Brittani Moncrease Updated: 10:19 PM CST January 14, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tenn. January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. During a pandemic, the effort to stop human trafficking is especially important.
Local 24 News Reporter, Brittani Moncrease, checked back in with a local organization finding solutions to the problem.
Newton s third law says Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Last year s pandemic shutdown, made the fight against human trafficking more challenging. Rachel Haaga runs Restore Corps, a non-profit focused on ending human trafficking.
Houston artist Anat Ronen paints a mini mural on a traffic signal control box at Moody Park. (Photo by Alex Barber)
Houston City Council member Karla Cisneros, a longtime fan of the cityâs mini mural program, recently came up with a way to enlarge a muralâs purpose by combatting a city scourge â human trafficking.
Four new âMini Muralsâ on traffic signal control cabinets in Cisnerosâ District H aim to bringing human trafficking prevention and awareness to Northside Houston, just in time for Januaryâs Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
Cisneros said she is not aware of any other cities or locations that have used mini murals this way.
No one should be pressured to exchange sex acts for a warm place to stay, for a bite to eat, to feed a drug addiction, to avoid a beating, or because they feel they have no other option. Sadly, that's what's happening, though. And yes, here in the Twin Ports. Every day.
By Crystal McGough
CLAY – The Clay City Council unanimously approved Proclamation 2021-01 at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 12, recognizing January 2021 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
According to The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, nctsn.org, “January was first declared as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in 2010.”
City Manager Ronnie Dixon updated the council on the city’s preparations to host the first Alabama Open in pickleball.
“We have proceeded on with that and had a meeting this week with the director of the state pickleball association,” Dixon said. “We ordered some nets for the courts that are on the tennis courts so that they will be the championship-type nets and we’re moving forward with creating a festival feeling, I guess is the best way to put it. They were very excited about having the food court area, the carnival, of course the updated bathroom trailers instead of just porta potties.”