This is a retailer who will be one of our sponsors for the Vashon Island event! Beautiful, affordable fair trade products! ............................................................ .............................Free The Slaves is a not for profit organization that is committed to ending slavery in 25 years. Our goal is to raise $20,000 to work toward seeing their goal accomplished. Free The Slaves works with nine grassroots partners organizations to ensure all of these facets of the fight against slavery are addressed. They also lead education and awareness programs for the general public as well as programs targeted toward governments. (For more information on this organization, check out the website at FreeTheSlaves.net.)What is human trafficking? Human trafficking is modern day slave trading. It involves the use of coercion, deception, violence, or force to move a person out of their community for purposes of exploitation. The most common form of trafficking in persons is prostitution of women and young girls, although work in brothels, strip clubs, nail salons, massage parlors, and work as nannies, domestic servants, and farm laborers also constitutes as trafficking. When children are trafficked, no force, coercion, or deception need be involved, simply moving them from their community for exploitation is considered trafficking.The FBI estimates that as many as 18,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year. Human trafficking continues to be one of the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world.