Good Deeds International
Good Deeds International is committed to creative counter child-trafficking. Good Deed Mavericks and Changemakers build bridges of expertise, money, intellectual property and creative programs between budding abolitionists recruited and trained to support our grassroots community partners and victims and survivors of trafficking.
Project Need: Counter Child-Trafficking Initiatives Losing Ground – Losing Children
Today’ international human slave-trade is larger now than it was during the transatlantic slave trade which took place from the 16th-19th centuries. Human-trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry, the second largest criminal activity in the world just behind the drug trade. Men, women and children in the millions suffer things we cannot imagine.
Many nongovernmental organisations exist to support adult victims and survivors of trafficking, yet very few exist to care for the special needs of children at-risk or survivors of trafficking, a constantly mutating form of exploitation and abuse.
Good Deeds is changing that.
Project Rationale:
Children as young as 4 are being used in the sex trade, sweat shops, as soldiers and in diamond mines around the world. The highest demand side for trafficking is the USA and Japan. The highest supply side is South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is estimated 3000 people are trafficked into Australia annually.
The biggest problem? Most people don’t know human/child-trafficking exists. Trafficking is multiplying faster than solutions. And, few people know what they can do to counter child-trafficking.
Good Deeds International and our creative abolitionists, global community partners and survivors of trafficking are change that.
Like you, we believe that no child deserves a life of exploitation. Through unrivalled and rare awareness campaigns we recruit bourgeoning abolitionists and raise funds to support counter child-trafficking initiatives with our grass roots partners in developing countries.
Project Innovation:
Good Deeds is unique for two reasons: first, our campaigns engage supporters from a place of inspiration, rather than guilt; second, we invest in survivors of trafficking to create change in their own back yards. We leave local changemaking to the experts. Presently we do this in countries such as Australia, USA, the Solomon Islands and Laos by creative and innovative projects currently running or anticipated soon:
- Big Deeds and raising awareness– the world’s first eco friendly multi-media monster truck delivering local and global trafficking education
- State of the Art Schools – aimed at educating the world’s future counter child-trafficking practitioners (for survivors or those at risk to trafficking)
- Beat the Bullies – Investing in local women that confront businesses and thugs exploiting and trafficking children
- Drive to Stop the Traffic – a literal drive around the world – 80,000kms and 30 countries to build counter trafficking networks and to recruit mavericks and abolitionists that will support and engage survivors of trafficking and slavery.
- Planting a Future for Children: Saving our Children, Environment and Community– at-risk children offsetting carbon emissions and earning income to pay school fees by planting trees in communities negatively affected by logging and traffickers
- Service-Learning – university students using creative practice with grass roots organizations on the frontlines as trafficking prevention
Project Hypothesis:
By creating niche and inspirational market space, diversifying present counter trafficking methods and by including new demographics in modern-day abolitionism, Good Deeds serves as a creative catalyst to combat and reduce the child slave trade.