The Escape Project

Our trail map!

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:30:09 -0400

Our trail map!

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Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:16:49 -0400

Our final poster

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:57:47 -0400

Our final poster

Us at our host location

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:06:28 -0400

Us at our host location

Tweet us at @TEPBristol

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:34:19 -0400

beautywithheart: 20 Countries Commit to Protect Children from...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:11:35 -0400

beautywithheart:

20 Countries Commit to Protect Children from Sex Trafficking

The Body Shop and ECPAT’s Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People campaign officially closed on Thursday 29 March with the launch of a final report, ‘Creating change through partnership’.

This report details how your incredible support for this groundbreaking and historic campaign has created the biggest campaign in the history of The Body Shop. Shop. Campaign successes include:

The law has changed in 20 countries to help protect and support children and young people

Over 7 million people around the world signed petitions calling on governments to protect those at risk of or affected by sex trafficking

65 countries supported the campaign

Petitions were presented to governments in 40 countries

Several governments, the EU and the United Nations, received one of the biggest petitions in their respective histories

Over £2.5 million (US $3million) has been raised for the ECPAT network and NGO partners around the world.

The Body Shop and ECPAT International will continue to work together and urge governments which have received the campaign petitions to do everything in their power to take action in order to protect children and young people from sex trafficking.

Thanks for being a part of our groundbreaking campaign and for helping children and young people all over the world find the support and protection they desperately need from this horrible crime.

If you would like to learn more about the sex trafficking of children and young people please visit www.ecpat.net.

"I became a photographer because I wanted to change the world … just try to do my bit to help..."

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:07:49 -0400

“I became a photographer because I wanted to change the world … just try to do my bit to help cultures understand each other and help illuminate worlds most people will never see.”

- Photographer Jodi Cobb, former staff photographer for National Geographic, talks about her recent work on modern slavery worldwide. Click through to hear her story and see her startling images.

How will you create and tell stories?

(via priceoflifenyc)

Financiers and Sex Trafficking

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:05:53 -0400

Financiers and Sex Trafficking:

j3551c4:

#newyorktimes #nicholasdkristof #sex #sextrafficking #goldmansachs #backpage

Embarrassed, Goldman Sachs decides to sell its stake in a prostitution Web site.

"[Trigger Warning: sexual molestation] The sexual molestation of children and the resulting shame..."

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:55:17 -0400

“[Trigger Warning: sexual molestation] The sexual molestation of children and the resulting shame thrive in an atmosphere of silence.”

- The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis (via healingquote)

"[Trigger Warning: Healing From Trauma] While it is always worthwhile, healing is never easy."

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:45:02 -0500

“[Trigger Warning: Healing From Trauma] While it is always worthwhile, healing is never easy.”

- The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis (via healingquote)

"[Trigger Warning: Healing From Trauma] The work of healing should not be retraumatizing. If you find..."

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:44:34 -0500

“[Trigger Warning: Healing From Trauma] The work of healing should not be retraumatizing. If you find that the intensity of your feelings is unmanageable, try to pace the process. Full speed ahead is not always the most effective way to proceed. Although this isn’t always in your control, sometimes you can back off from going deeper into your past and focus instead on self-care to build a stronger foundation.”

- The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis (via healingquote)

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:02:14 -0500

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

- Maya Angelou (via shandog)

"In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must..."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:00:01 -0500

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In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other’s throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a crucial crossroad in the history of this nation—and we either hang together by combating these forces that divide and degrade us or we hang separately.

Do we have the intelligence, humor, imagination, courage, tolerance, love, respect, and will to meet the challenge? Time will tell. None of us alone can save the nation or world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.

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- Cornel West, Race Matters (via 3dela)

"I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving..."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:58:51 -0500

“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”

- Cornel West (via 3dela)

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"I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent."

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:43:40 -0500

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”

- Girl, Interrupted (via kt-hoch)

socialjusticereads: Wednesday’s Photo comes from Invisible...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:16:59 -0500

socialjusticereads:

Wednesday’s Photo comes from Invisible Children and the Invisible Children Music Department.

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Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:57:28 -0500

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humantrafficwatch: Maria Mojica tears up as she shows a...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:42:08 -0500

humantrafficwatch:

Maria Mojica tears up as she shows a visitor how she stores the shoes, clothes and school supplies of her daughter, Jessica Estrada, neatly away in a hallway closet. Estrada, 14, ran away and has been missing for a year. Her mother fears she has been roped into a life of teen prostitution.

(ROSS COURTNEY/Yakima Herald-Republic)