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CSPAN2 Public Affairs Events February 2, 2018

International effort. Con temporary to contrary to what mentioned earlier about the United States, outside this country, internationally, particularly in the large Human Trafficking concentrated areas, like the asiapacific region, the focus needs to be more on restoration, rescue as well, but there seems to be perhaps lack of focused efforts in helping these individuals have a focus and purpose in life and bringing them back to a normal life, which is extremely critical, and so our focus in the International Sector is from the restoration perspective. So is a come back to our work in the United States, and back to your question, david, maybe, take for example; i start with anthems work, large healthcare company. We touch many communities, many institutions, many healthcare providers, so as an organization, we understand the unique opportunity we have in this space. When you look at the fight that we have against this evil, it starts with identification. It also includes rescue. It includes restoration, includes prevention, and all these strategic sectors have health in common, and so from an anthem perspective, we have been one of the very first members of this council for all these reasons, and our immediate focus is to spread awareness. So we have more than 50,000 employees, and were focusing on how to get this word out through many channels, including webinars and emails and newsletters as well as screen savers and last month it was the Human Trafficking month so we clearly had very targeted efforts towards that. But sort of expanding on other Council Members, technology, like i mentioned earlier, plays a big role in this space. So with the delight brought in more than 55 consultants and we built a survey tool, and a survey tool allows to us get our arms around what is in place from a support systems extend in every community. Every sector. So if i can tell you what used to be in place or what may be in place in many areas even today is that as soon as we have a focused effort, go do a community, and the first thing we want to know is, what is in place . What that also tells us is even more importantly, what is not in place and that effort, trying to get our arms around all the efforts in that community, takes anywhere from 15 to 18 months, and where this Technology Solution has allowed to us do he survey tool, we can get there in a few minutes and now we can look at what are the caps, where do we need to get involved, how can we have a Strategic Focus to where its filling in those gaps. So, this survey tool has been reviewed with many states. We have more than seven states already aligned to leverage this tool, and coming back to your question about super bowl and i believe the attorney general from minnesota spoke to this issue. When you have a large event like super bowl, it elevates the importance of awareness, and the Freedom Council has been a part of the effort that are taking place in support of the upcoming minneapolis super bowl, and we spent an enormous effort, particularly partnering with rotary, as well as the help of oracle and other Council Members, and together the first effort we did initiate is to leverage the tool i was referring to, the survey tool, and based on that we have been able to establish very strategic efforts towards awareness as well as prevention. So, that would be a great example that showcases the value of technology as well as partnership in this council. Maybe just another quick point is that there is so much information out there about what you need to do when, and that includes articles, reference documents, tool kits. One of the efforts thats counsel one Council Member took from us is to build that online tool, which is that goto place, one stop shop per se, which has vetted very rich information about all these different Knowledge Based articles, tool kits, and to go to one place to gather all that inflammation, and we all that information and we have almost completed that effort, with the help of Council Member and just getting ready to launch that tool. The benefit the tool is it not only helps us all as a communication as a goto place, but for Law Enforcement and other organizations. We also have a very vetted goto place for information. So theres several different tracts, many more to list but that captures some of our highlights. Thank you so much. Thats great. For facebook, you talked about working with different partners, difference ngo partners and id love to elaborate of the worn you have done and how you integrity and that how that affects the reduction of trafficking or how you may catch some people. Well, first, i actually just want to have its great to come to these but sometime outside get another new idea. Interestingly, with this work youre talking about, theres a particular ngo work on activating communities. So when you see a path of trafficking that may be occurring, often timed around refugee communities, they have been utilizing our platform, not just literally through groups and other connections on the platform, to energize communities, to basically build a resilient response, and first of all, get to victims but also try to shut don the trafficking in those communities, and it strikes me the portal youre building and talking about could be a great intersections for all three of to us Work Together so im glad i was here today. To give an example of some of the ways in which we would work with some of our partners and i guess ill call out thorn again. We one thing we know is that people who engage in this kind of trafficking will often times start by trying to collect images from a victim, and then utilize those images as way of extorting additional entire we have been working with thorne to put together a psa about when someone is trying to collect those images from you and how you can reach out to get help. Thats a psa that we launched with them. We run it on our platform as well as other places running it and were currently in the discussion about basically translating into a number of different languages. Another thing that we are currently working on actually this is with the state attorneys general, is a series of psas a targeted within the state. So the states attorney general often have programs to reach out or connect with victimized but dont always have the resources because theyre a Government Agency to do the kind of outreach at scale, and so we are currently working with them to put together a series of psas, reaching out with each state having its own call to action, depending on what its that particular attorney general wants to do for contact. Those are the smaller ways i say small each individual small pieces but at scale, but they can be large. Another thing that we really have been trying to do more of late is to actually have our partners bring information to us that helps combat what we see that happened on the platform, and earlier i talked about policies. We have obviously a policy against trafficking on our platform. We know that sometimes people would attempt to use pages on our platform, which is basically part of our platform where people set up a page to put to many advertise they are willing to theyre trafficking someone. Theyre very clever at trying to hide exactly what is going on the page. They dont say explicitly what theyre doing. But we can look at that page, we can have some sense thats what theyre doing but its not clear theyre definitely doing that. We started a program with our trusted partners where they will come to us to help make that connection. So if they have they know theres a connection to a web site where theyre actually directly trafficking, or if theres a connection to a place offline where theyre directly traffic, they can bring that information to us to make it easier nows is to take down those payment for us to take down the pages. Thank sod much. What is great about this event that happened with the Justice Department is amazing but the conversations we have had how we collaborate is amazing. Even the super bowl. What we can do together because i think in the past, years past, everybody was doing things separately, but if we collaborate and the impact of these Amazing Companies can change the world. I love for nikole to kind of expand on what we talked about, the super bowl, and then maybe brent you can tag on that, the thing wed talked about, collaborating during the super bowl coming up. This is completely aspirational, but its under one of those, if you think into existence and tack about it, it will surely happen. Atlanta is going to be hosting the super bowl next year, and of course, unfortunately, sports activities like the super bowl, like in the ncaa, are primetime for this sex trafficking and for some of this illicit activity. We have been thinking bat way to bring information around the super bowl, the time the super bowl will be in atlanta, through trucker against trafficking by having a mobile museum. They have 45foot tractortrailer. Ups donates labor. We hitch our ups tractor to their trailer and we pull this museum around the country, and there are a number of other companies that volunteer to do this, and so since ups is based in atlanta, were brainstorming about wouldnt it by interesting to have the truckers against trafficking mobile museum as part of the Fan Experience during the super bowl, because we think there are ways to introduce people into the concept, just to get them thinking, and i find that when were talking to folks about Human Trafficking you have to have two or three conversations about it sinks in because the first is this shock, its embarrassing, its not comfortable at all, and im remembering one of our executives at ups that called me up after i was sort of stalking him to support this, and he said i saw it on law and order. I saw it it and was this light bulb moment. Really helps folks understand when you socialize its so perhaps the truckers against trafficking mobile museum is a way to socialize in Fan Experience and then bring the awareness to the sports fans at the nfl, and so hopefully we can make that happen. Thats great. Brent you want to expand on the thinged we talked about . You have a presence in downtown atlanta. The fact were in atlanta means we will be engaged in that work no doubt. But its also important to recognize, were doing lot of work now with a platform that is multisector, ngo government around mega Sports Events like fifa world cup and the olympic gays. Its a unique opportunity to martial sources around human rights issues but the way in which countries are chosen to host events through the planning of the evict and actors involved in the process, during the hosting of the event while the sport is going on and then the legacy issues, what you take from that event that adds to the Community Going forward. As we look at super bowl, increasingly Going Forward as being such a catalyst event, we need to think about what else we can address during that time as well. Because you also have issues around child labor, some countries, people are dispossessed over land, moved off and cleared in order for certain event bows gained afterward the people are not remindated but left alone, brazil being an example and others with world cups cups andh olympics so as we work and plan towards 2019 and the super bowl, its real opportunity for us to take a really holistic view of what we can actually positively impact on peoples human rights. Thats right. We even talked about sitting up a meeting with everybody to talk about how to collaborate and make a difference. The greatest thing about corporations is theyve got the resources to make it happen. I think sometimes ngos have limited resources but these Companies Just do amazing work so i cant tell you how much i thank you for being here today. Andre, if you would kind of expand on the higher hope program, sort of what that process looks like, when someone goes through therapy and then get internships with dogs. Walked us through the process. Sure. Thing one their for me as an executive in our company but also as a woman, as an american, and as a human being, i think that we have to look at it for what it is. You have to meet people where they are in life, and not everybody is going to come up and n a nice buttonup suit and be ready to go to work day one. He we get past of those societal biases and were able to get to the heart of, lets start with the basics. Start with the training. Lets start with our career readiness, how do you write a resume . How do you interview for a job and how do you find a job . Young girls coming through the program, one thing we learn we had one young lady in recent terms, didnt know how to answer an office phone. You didnt think you would have to train someone how she was used to using a cell phone but how to answer an office line. Taking time and being very thoughtful in our training process. These are very smart, intelligent women, and i think that when you can look at someone, these are brave people. For someone these traffickers make 40,000 a week on average per victim. They rather kill them than to let them go free. They rather see them dead than to see them living free. So for them to have the guts, the fortitude, just one glimpse of hope to be rescued and to take that step and join this program, in my book, theyre already winners. Theyve already overcome more than any of news this room could ever even imagine. Unimaginable. So once we meet them where they are, we provide. The with the training, work very closely with wellsprings, the organization in atlanta, and i think that is really the partnership and collaboration is what makes it work. It would not work without the support of our human capital. A lot of people donate thousands of hours of volunteer. None of us are paid for working specifically on a higher hope program. Is this all volunteer run. Thats one thing that is amazing how its been so successful. Based on all the work the volunteers have provided. Once were able to get them the training they need, we work with the Corporate Partners like ups, who have actually hired some of our higher hope participants and im proud of that partnership and were very thankful for ups, and as well as with anthem and cocacola as well. So once they are hired on to jobs, we dont just let them go. With saginaw contact with them for another 12 moms to shake sure how theyre doing, how theyre surviving do they have the we recognize as a business, not all companies have a rich terry at delta that is making sure the victimized survivors at this point can move forward. The premise behind this is how can we make a more impactful, meaningful, into this issue, how can we contribute to solve thing the problem and not being complicit by turning our backs and doing nothing. So as organizations and companies, a lot of fortunate 500s not here today on this panel. Ask you to join us. Join news these efforts. These are amazing people that have come out to share the work theyre candidate are doing, and we cant do anything unless we Work Together. With doj, with the state as well us a our Corporate Partners. Thats exactly right. Theres a lot of thing that happen on this issue you dont think about, but, for instance, i was talking to a law firm and they wanted to get engaged. If a survivor has lost custody of their child, they need an attorney to get custody back. They need sometimes to have thurmanys expunged off their record so they can get a job because with a felony sometimes you cant get a job. Those Legal Services are easy for a lot of law firms to do, soso many different ways that you can get involved, and i know its been broadcast on cnn, companies see this, please contact the Justice Department and say you want to get involved, because this can make a difference. This can truly make a difference in this issue, and we have about ten minutes left. Id love if any comments anybody would like to make and then take a few questions from the audience, anything you want to add to that . Once again thanks for everyone being here and when i sit on panels like this and im asked questions, one question asked is what do we do now . What i would ask ann everybody in this rom room has heard about victims and the trafficking itself. Ask that you would not just leave it in this room. I would ask that you take this and have conversation witches your faints, familied. If youre part of a corporation, have conversations with the movers and shaker friday the decisionmaker inside your corporations because the more that we raise the level of awareness, the more likely we for kill the demand that jeff so eloquently talked about on the last panel. So i ask you, everyone here today, please dont just leave this here in this room. Its a beautiful room. But what we can do outside this rooms is far more important than what we do inside the room. So, please, dont by afraid to tell your friends and neighborhood about what is going on. Thats right. We call the power of one, do what you income your community, do one thing, and if we do it collectively, the immigrant pact impact its have is amazing. Wed like to take a few questions. Anybody have anything else . Thank you. I had not planned on saying anything but with a panel of global experts that serve everywhere, im a rotarian, have been for over 20 years. But i work for an organization, too called set free alliance. Rotary needs a lot of partners to make this happen, and you see the class of people or the organizations on the panel here. Were a small nonprofit, very quiet one. In the last five years we have freed 14,000 slaves. We have e. U. Nighted 8,000 slaves reunited 8,000 slaves with their parents, all the way through nepal. I think its the Gates Foundation said, to solve a problem, you have to quantify a problem. Thats where the world Global Slavery Index came from. Im not going through the country but the second most country i mention this because this is a global constituent si up here. The second highest country with slaves in the world is china. 3. 5 million

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