'Trafficked- The Reckoning' SBS documentary

"In 1995, Ning was a thirteen-year-old girl when she was trafficked to Australia from Thailand and sold to a Sydney brothel. But the Australian man who imprisoned Ning for ten days and who forced her to have sex with over one hundred men was never publicly identified or arrested. With the help of former policeman Chris Payne, Ning is now determined to discover the man's identity and to bring a civil action against him in an Australian court for the psychological damages she suffered. (Commissioned by SBS) (Documentary) PG CC"

Watch 'Trafficked- The Reckoning' online here.

Angie Hart is gearing up to stop.traffick. Are you?

The much-loved siren of song has generously lent her vocals to promote awareness of and raise funds for those affected by human trafficking.

Hart will be joined by the bouzouki-driven Blood Red Bird, APRA award-winner Yelka and DJ Ladyfingers – Melbourne’s own multicultural women’s DJ collective – for a night that promises to be as eclectic as it will be evocative.

Proceeds donated to the Healthcare Centre for Children, a non-government organisation in Cambodia that runs prevention and protection programs to combat human trafficking.

Thursday 29 September
East Brunswick Club
Doors open 7.30pm. Tickets $20

New laptop bag designs

Our Australian Youth Ambassador for Development, fair trade and design specialist, Beth is working with the HCC to design new products for the Australian market.
We hope to have these lovely laptop bags and our signature Stop.Traffick scarf available to buy online soon, promise!

New Giving Gardens Website

Our sister organisation Giving Gardens Project are proud to present their new website.
Please visit them at http://givinggardens.wordpress.com/

From the Giving Gardens website:

In partnership with the Healthcare Centre for Children (HCC) based in Phnom Penh, twenty volunteers from Australia will visit Cambodia in January 2011 and undertake a creative landscape project at the Good Day Center (GDC.) A master ‘template’ garden will be designed and landscaped with key information on each plant available in English and Khmer, as well as information and illustrative posters on composting, worm farming and other soil enrichment techniques. 

Keep reading here.

Thank-you Biutiful

Thank-you to everybody who braved the Melbourne winter and came to see 'Biutiful' on Tuesday night.
A special thanks to Cinema Nova, Carlton who tirelessly support local community groups (including the Darfur Australia Network (DAN) who also had a fundraiser at Nova on Tuesday night: great minds think alike).
Looking forward to seeing you all at our 2012 forums, again to be held at RMIT in semester 2. More details to follow.

Biutiful: Cinema Nova Fundraiser

Stop.Traffick and Cinema Nova present:

BIUTIFUL

A film by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Starring Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib.

Winner Best Actor Festival de Cannes

Date: Tuesday 21 June

Time: 6.30 for 7pm start

Venue: Cinema Nova, Lygon St Carlton

Tickets: $22

RSVP essential: To book tickets please email events@stoptraffick.org.au (Please note corrected email address)

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. 

Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. 

He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

About Stop.Traffick

Stop.Traffick is a partnership and support model strengthening the anti-trafficking programs of in-country NGO’s through awareness raising, capacity building and income generation activities. Stop.Traffick supports the Healthcare Centre for Children (HCC), a non government organisation (NGO) in Cambodia which runs prevention and protection programs to combat human trafficking. 

More information:

www.stop-traffick.blogspot.com

http://www.biutifulofficial.com/

Giving Gardens featured in Warnambool Standard

The Warnambool Standard have published an article about Stop Traffick's regional sister project Giving Gardens led by Lana Campbell:

"Forming the group Giving Gardens this year, Ms Campbell and six others will build gardens at two Cambodian shelters to help the victims' recovery and financial situations.

To better fund their passion project, Giving Gardens filmed a five-minute video on Saturday for a chance to receive the Project Inspire grant of $25,000 from the United Nations and Mastercard.

"I'm confident we can make the top 10," Ms Campbell said.

"Then it's up to the public across the globe to vote for the video to win.

"Whether we win or not, the project will definitely go ahead and we'll return to Phnom Penh in January." "

Read the full Warnambool Standard article by Jonathon Pech here.

Giving Gardens is the sister project to Stop.Traffick, where we will be taking 20 volunteers to landscape two shelters that provide support to trafficked young women and girls. High yield, low maintenance gardens, along with a sensory garden in each will provide agricultural training, financial literacy skills and income generation 
opportunities for survivors wishing to return to their rural communities.