1. The Bay Area AntiTrafficking Coalition
(BAATC)
Audrey Musgrove

3. • What is human trafficking?
• Why should I care?
• What is the BAATC, and what do they do?
• How can I help?
• Who am I helping when I donate or get
involved?

4. What is Human Trafficking?
• “[T]he recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring
or receipt of a person against his or her own will or for
little or no pay.”
• In other words, human trafficking is modern-day slavery
•
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html

5. • It comes in many forms
▫ Domestic servitude
▫ Labor
▫ Prostitution
▫ Porn industry

6. Why Should I Care?
Human Trafficking: The Big
Picture
• 30 million slaves worldwide
• Mainly women and girls, but
men and boys are also sold
into slavery
• San Francisco & the Bay Area are one
of the FBI’s top 5 human trafficking
areas in the United States
• It has become the second-most
profitable industry
• 70% of slaves are women and
girls
• 50% of slaves are children
(http://www.dosomething.org/)
(http://www.thefreedomproject.org/), (http://www.thepolarisproject.org)

7. Human Trafficking is Happening Close
to Home
• 17,000 people sold into slavery each year in the
Bay Area
• Mainly girls, ages 13-17
• 50% become sex slaves – prostitution
•
(http://www.ywca-sv.org/)

8. What is the BAATC?
• Bay Area Anti-Trafficking
Coalition
• Local non-profit
organization
• Connects other local nonprofit anti-slavery
organizations together
• Worked with 33 other local
non-profit organizations in
2013
• Founded in 2002 by Betty Ann
Boeving and Brian Wo
• The Freedom Summit
Conference in Freemont, Ca

9. The Freedom Summit
• Started in 2011
• Also features stories from
survivors
• Freemont, Ca
• Huge conference with speakers
from many Bay Area nonprofit organizations who seek
to end human trafficking at
local and worldwide levels
• Brings local non-profit
organizations together

10. How Can I Help?
• Log on to the Bay Area Anti-Trafficking
Coalition’s website
• http://www.baatc.org/
• Make a small donation
• Make a monthly donation
• Participate in their events to help bring
awareness
▫ Fundraisers, conferences, 5k & 10k races

11. Who am I helping when I donate or get
involved?
• On a large-scale, you help other bay area-based
non-profit organizations by allowing their
representatives to speak at the BAATC
conferences
▫ Freedom House
• On a small-scale, your donation helps real
people reestablish a basic human right - freedom

12. What Did I Learn Today?
1.
What human trafficking is
2.
The importance of raising awareness, and why you should
care
3.
What the BAATC is, and how they help other organizations
4.
How you can help and get involved
5.
By donating or getting involved, you help the BAATC help
other local non-profits and victims of human trafficking

13. Donate to the BAATC or get involved now to help
bring an end to local and worldwide human
trafficking