1. Awareness

Many men do not know that modern day slavery exists here in our cities and backyards.  It happens in Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Minneapolis, NYC, and many other US cities.

Learn more about the issue of human trafficking, how it happens, and why it exists.

2. Rescue + Shelter

Give generously to organizations fighting on the front lines rescuing and sheltering victims of human trafficking in the US and abroad:

3. Kill the demand

Human trafficking is a business—a highly profitable business. The engine that drives this business is the sheer demand for cheap commercial sex and cheap labor. Because of an overwhelming demand created primarily by men, traffickers are jumping onto the opportunity to supply. In order to end human trafficking in the long run, we need to make human trafficking a risky and unprofitable business by encouraging men to kill the demand.

As any business student would know, the easiest way to make a business fail is to reduce profitability or to cut the revenue stream. Siddharth Kara in Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Day Slavery suggests the best way to do this is to increase the costs of operations, which forces traffickers and brothels to work on smaller profit margins, or increase prices.  When prices increase, demand decreases.  With fewer people purchasing, revenue streams are cut.  If it’s more profitable to open up a bakery in Bangkok or a coffee shop in LA, these traffickers will choose to sell pastries or coffee instead.

This is an area of opportunity for men to step into.  If all men took responsibility to kill demand and encourage other men to speak up, it adds pressure to the men visiting brothels and strip clubs and those engaging in sex tourism to stop.

Don’t know where to start?

There are men who want to be on mission but don’t know how to get started. Start by asking questions, being curious, and exploring what it means to be a man. That’s how we started. For example:

Is it masculine to use others for your own benefit?

As you explore questions and answers, you will run into areas of need and discover opportunities to serve. That’s your chance to shoulder responsibility for something greater than yourself, and that’s when you start your journey to become a man on mission.

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