Note: Each month "Director's Corner" will feature a guest writer from another local ministry or organization that assists our struggling neighbors. This summer Call to Freedom sent a team to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally to help raise awareness of human trafficking.
For years, Call to Freedom has been sending leaders to the west side of the state to promote awareness about human trafficking at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The small town of Sturgis hosts a rally that swells the population of our state every year even more this year. Although, this event is a great time for many, there is a dark side to it as well. The human influx causes fear and the reality of an increase in human trafficking surrounding the event.
Our goal is to outreach on the streets, in the campgrounds and in venues observing, listening and gathering anecdotal information that brings the dark side of the rally to light. We designed buttons, postcards and small informational business cards to hand out as we walked the streets. Consistent with the mission of our organization, we provided support for trafficking survivors and partnered with frontline victim service providers such as CISS Shelter in Sturgis who are amazing btw.
We also felt led to outreach to the men promoting awareness that buying a prostitute could mean buying a victim and empowering men to have a voice against this issue as well. We also connected with Free International and Klasskids and 37 of the missing girls in the Missing Kids Books kids missing that were thought to be in Sturgis have been recovered!
Our team encounters 3 of the missing girls, as well. Call to Freedom is so passionate about being part of the larger story of those working with women and children at risk, as well as the issue of Human Trafficking.
