Starting on Friday March 1, The Not For Sale Club, led by Katherine Guinn, officially started its poster campaign to boost the awareness of how prevalent human trafficking is in our society. QR codes (barcode looking squares) and posters have been posted in areas such as the counseling wing and the cafeteria for passing students to read and reflect...
Have you always wanted to become educated about human trafficking, the modern day slavery that is present in our own Dallas-Fort worth Metroplex? Have you always wanted to make a difference in the world or in your own community? If so, Not For Sale’s curriculum on human trafficking is a great opportunity you can’t pass up.
On October 2, 2013,...
Slavery. When you read that word, what thoughts or time periods come to mind? While there are several answers, something that you might not have thought about is United States slavery. No, I’m not talking about the 1700’s, I’m talking about right now.
The term slavery refers to someone who is considered “property” of someone else and has lost their free...
Today, Wednesday, November 30, 2011, Jesuit’s Not for Sale Club will be screening The Dark Side of Chocolate in Hughes Hall. This film by Miki Mistrati and U. Roberto Romano is a documentary about the illegal use of child slaves who are trafficked to the Ivory Coast for the gathering and selling of cocoa beans.
Luckily, we live in Dallas,...
On Saturday, December 6, the Not For Sale club returned to the Mosaic Family Services Center to host a Christmas party for the kids.
Like last month, from 2-4 p.m. Mrs. Katie Segal, the club’s founder and moderator, along with seniors William Janicki, Roman Kimbrell, Joe Frunzi, Levi Jobe, Nico Rodriguez, Alejandro Joglar, and myself played with the children. Fortunately Frunzi,...
Eyes fixed upon the guest speaker, Jesuit students attentively listened to a moving presentation on the impact human trafficking has had on thousands of lives as well as the tangible methods for combating this evil.
On Friday, September 19, Not For Sale kickstarted the year with a guest presentation by Edward Smart from Operation Underground Railroad, an organization that rescues children who...
Human trafficking- the act of “buying” and selling people for sexual or commercial exploitation- nets a global profit of about 31 billion dollars per year. Among the groups that tries to tackle this issue are Jesuit’s own Not for Sale Club, which actively promotes anti-human trafficking in the community, and the YACHT (Young Adult Curriculum Against Human Trafficking) initiative,...
Today, thirty million people are enslaved throughout the world, forced into human sex trafficking and other types of forced slave labor. In comparison, many notable countries—including Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Venezuela, and Sudan—do not even have populations over thirty million people. More slaves exist now than at any other point in history. The goal of the Not For Sale...
