WASHINGTON, D.C.—AHLA Basis introduced its third annual No Room for Trafficking Summit will happen on July 30, 2024, the identical day because the United Nations’ World Day In opposition to Trafficking in Individuals.
Ultimately 12 months’s No Room for Trafficking (NRFT) Summit, the inaugural grantees of the NRFT Survivor Fund have been introduced, together with Protected Home Challenge, Companies Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST), Restore NYC, Inc., College of Maryland Assist, Advocacy, Freedom, and Empowerment (SAFE) Heart for Human Trafficking Survivors. AHLA Basis additionally shared quantitative and qualitative information demonstrating the impression the 4 Survivor Grantees have made thus far with the $500,000 disseminated throughout their respective organizations:
- Collectively, the 4 Survivor Fund grantees have helped 643 survivors obtain emergency providers to help their exit from human trafficking
- 514 survivors have been ready for employment by way of coaching and training periods
- 240 people have been ready to offer workforce coaching to survivors
- 80 survivors have been related with employment alternatives
- 66 survivors have secured non-exploitive employment
AHLA Basis President Anna Blue shared, “In 2022, we launched the NRFT Survivor Fund—a primary for the resort trade—to increase the resort and lodging trade’s efforts to help trafficking survivors. Since launching the Survivor Fund, we have now grown our complete raised to $7.5 million in direction of our purpose of $10 million, and we look ahead to awarding $1 million in grants to community-based organizations that help human trafficking survivors at our third annual Summit.”
The AHLA Basis’s efforts to fight human trafficking are guided by the NRFT Advisory Council, composed of 12 leaders throughout the hospitality trade and led by Co-Chairs Joan Bottarini, chief monetary officer at Hyatt, and Farah Bhayani, normal counsel and chief compliance officer at G6 Hospitality.
