Honoring the work of The Philadelphia Anti-Trafficking Coalition and The Salvation Army to raise awareness of victims and survivors of human trafficking during National Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

Honoring the work of The Philadelphia Anti-Trafficking Coalition and The Salvation Army to raise awareness of victims and survivors of human trafficking during National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. WHEREAS, January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the United States, where the issue of human trafficking is subject to stigma, underreporting and absence of justice. People in Philadelphia are subjected to human trafficking, forced into labor or sexual acts - including children under the age of 18; and WHEREAS, Recent Philadelphia data collected by The Philadelphia Anti Trafficking Coalition identified 401 victims of trafficking last year, including 70 children. But the data cautions that it underreports the real total due to severe stigma and lack of access to information among survivors and victims of human trafficking; and WHEREAS, The Philadelphia Anti-Trafficking Coalition consisting of WOAR, Justice at Work, Nationalities Services Center, Dawns Place, Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, Covenant House, Villanova Institute to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Support Center for Child Advocates, and Philadelphia Children’s Alliance work with survivors and victims of human trafficking and report having assisted thousands of people in Philadelphia, despite lack of proper public attention or resources; and WHEREAS, The Salvation Army’s New Day New program, for example, has helped 1,335 unique individuals in Philadelphia with transitional housing, peer su…