Natalie and I planned for this day for awhile but it turned out better than expected. We posted on social media before the day happened just to get the word out about it. We would tell our friends to tell others and so on. Thursday morning, we arrive early to school to set up our table and poster. We had people come up to us asking questions and wanting to know why we were doing this. We were able to share about human trafficking and tell people slavery still exists in this country. There were so many people who came up to us and posting on social media with the hashtag #ENDITMOVEMENT. Speaking up and raising awareness needs to be a trend and opportunities like this can happen all the time. We are so thankful we were allowed to bring awareness to our community and school. We are in it to end it.
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We have continued helping at the Hope Center but we have also focused on End It day on February 22nd. We want to spread awareness of sex trafficking and we are trying to do that in our school the best way we can. Being able to volunteer our time at a place that wants the best for girls after they come out of trafficking is great. We realized there are many high schoolers that do not know this still exists even in our own city. We hope by spreading awareness on End It day will help people realize it is such a prevalent issue. Hanging up posters and sharing on social media is so small but it helps us reach a part of our world which can move to bigger things. The End It movement is something that happens worldwide and we are trying to make it happen here in New Palestine. We will have a table on that Thursday in the Lobby to draw Xs on people's hands and talk to them about this issue and what they can do to help stop it. That is why we are here, to put an end to it.
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