King Tribe · Seattle, WA · Human trafficking
Human trafficking: it could be your daughter.
Ken King started King Tribe to raise awareness of the individual person suffering human trafficking. The work on this page is simple to say and hard to do: see the child as a victim, hold the buyers to account, and give her somewhere safe to heal.
Am I not a daughter and a sister?
King Tribe medallion, 2010
The task
The task is huge and needs your help.
“There are several ways you can effect change.” Ken King asks for one thing first: that you use what you already have to raise awareness of human trafficking.
- AbilitiesWhat you are good at can carry the message further than you think.
- ContactsThe people who already listen to you are the people to tell.
- ActivitiesYour group, your congregation, your team, your table.
“Utilizing your abilities, contacts, and activities to raise awareness of human trafficking.” That is the whole assignment, and it starts at your own kitchen table.
Awareness
“Let us speak up for the rights of those that cannot speak up for themselves.”
Trafficking is a current form of slavery, and it is happening in the USA and throughout our world. We can keep ourselves informed and always be aware of the activity around us that could be a form of it.
Look at the victim as our
- neighbor,
- brother,
- son,
- mother,
- sister,
- daughter.
What would we do if it was? And what would we want someone to do for us if we were in their place?
Three demands
- Identified
Child victims of sex trafficking must be identified and treated as victims.
- Prosecuted
The arrest and prosecution of buyers must be made a priority.
- Restored
Appropriate protective shelter and services are needed for the protection and restoration of child sex trafficking victims.
“We need to look at people that are in need as fellow humans and not ignore them.” The same conviction runs through King Tribe’s work on homelessness and hunger.
It could be your daughter
“It could be your daughter, sister, cousin, niece or a friend.”
King Tribe’s page of that name begins there, with a person and not a figure. It ends with a plea that fits on a coin:
“The numbers are simply overwhelming, but each number has a name.”
Ken King
“Children in the sex industry are not ‘prostitutes’; they are child sex trafficking victims. We must treat them as victims.”
Please don’t look the other way. Help stop this tragedy here in Seattle, across the USA and around the world.
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.”
Proverbs 31:8-9, on the reverse
Start with the Pledge.
King Tribe asks men for three commitments that protect the people they love. They are on the Take Action page, and they cost nothing but your word.
Tell Ken what you can do.
If you can lend your abilities, your contacts or your group to the work against human trafficking, write to Ken King at King Tribe in Seattle.