Prevention
The most powerful way to impact an at-risk community is to prevent oppression and slavery from starting. To do so, the climate for creating trafficking must change. Poverty and hopelessness must be kept at bay through new opportunities in the culture. Education for children, skills training for adults, and a basic support system for women all help break cultural cycles of oppression. Communities being targeted by predators can resist these pressures when people are trained what to look for and families are looking out for one another. Some parents have unknowingly sold their own children into slavery, tricked into believing the kids were going to be cared for, only to learn too late that they were horribly used. So reaching these families early is the priority, and the most effective point of intervention. These prevention projects educate communities and help them keep slavery out:
