{"id":4954,"date":"2021-03-11T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/?p=4954"},"modified":"2021-03-26T18:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:42:46","slug":"modern-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/2021\/03\/11\/modern-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the fight against Modern Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"#ChoosetoChallenge<\/a>Do you recognize the signs of modern slavery? Do you know how to report them to the authorities?<\/strong> In their on-going work on violence against women, Soroptimist International of Thames Valley<\/a><\/strong> invited Caroline Virgo of The Clewer Initiative <\/strong><\/a>to be one of their monthly speakers, on Zoom of course because of current COVID restrictions. Soroptimist International of Thames Valley members were joined on Zoom by Soroptimists from other clubs throughout the UK and also by 7 members from their link club in Belgium, Soroptimist International of Val Brabant.<\/p>\n

Caroline explained that the Clewer Initiative had its origins in the 1900s, founded by nuns, but that now they are a group of women plus a Bishop of the Church of England, Bishop Alistair Redfern who work to combat modern slavery in the UK and Africa. Their thinking is that in every UK community there is a Church of England presence and that they are well placed therefore to fight modern slavery in all its new manifestations. Such relatively new manifestations were listed for example as car washes and County Lines.<\/p>\n

Caroline showed the audience several informative videos which highlight victims\u2019 stories – see here or visit The Clewer Initiative<\/a> <\/strong>website for more resources<\/p>\n