Loose Change to Loosen Chains

The OSU chapter of the International Justice Mission is hosting a fundraiser on library lawn Tuesday, April 21. A member of the IJM crew will be chained up on the lawn until they reach $1000 in dona­tions. This is to sym­bolize the inter­na­tional slave traf­ficking problem.

• 600,000 to 800,000 men, women and chil­dren are traf­ficked across inter­na­tional bor­ders each year.
• 12.3 mil­lion people are in some form of forced labor, including sexual slavery, at any given time.
• It takes approx­i­mately $1,000 to free a slave from bondage. That is how much we are trying to raise.

“Seek jus­tice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the father­less, plead the case of the widow.” –Isaiah 1:17

I am so excited about this group because the more I read about sex and slave traf­ficking, even just from seeing the movie, Taken, the more dis­gusted I am with how evil our world is and how little I do per­son­ally to change it. Hopefully, this demon­stra­tion will raise aware­ness on our campus and inspire people to do what they can, even if it’s just designing a poster or buying a bracelet to help the cause on April 21.