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Kairos Traders works alongside businesses that have the same mission as we do, engaging human trafficking and exploitation. We would like to highlight some of these businesses to give you an idea of where our products are coming from, and what they are doing in order to help folks overseas. Our first post will be about the business Freeleaf. Freeleaf works with women from a large variety of backgrounds; homeless women, women with mental or physical disabilities, women who have been in the sex industry, domestic abuse survivors, women with low education, trafficking survivors, single moms, sexual assault survivors, and...

Everyone wants a bargain and to save money. Compliment someone on an outfit and you might hear “I only paid … for it.” However, in some cases our savings may mean someone else paid for it with their time, their meals, their living or working conditions. The smallest items in our closet, fridge, make-up bag, garage, etc could potentially be sourced to some form of slave labor. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates child labor decreased from 30 percent of children in 2000 to 11 percent of children in 2012. It is encouraging to hear the numbers are going in...

Reading about Human Trafficking can feel overwhelming. Human trafficking seems to reach into every avenue of our world. However, as consumers, we have the power to buy ethically sourced items. Most companies decisions are driven by sales, so there is power in purchasing wisely. How do we find ethically sourced items? Easy, look at our website. Alright, we appreciate the laughs, but while we have some great products we don’t have everything you need. By the time a consumer buys something, chances are some part of it can be traced back through many hands giving us less understanding of the...

Human trafficking and smuggling makes about $67 billion USD per year on the black market. This large profit to black marketers has its roots in lower prices for buyers, but a larger pool of choice. The ease of transportation, as well as more communication channels, has made it easier for lives to be bought and sold. From 1525 to 1866, during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the Americas. Of these people, about 10.7 million survived the trip. Today there are approximately 30 million people living as slaves in the world. In 1850 the price of...

Foster care and human trafficking have strong ties. Part of this is due to the vulnerable state many children are in prior to entering the care of child welfare. Many in foster care have been exposed to sexual assault, have changed homes often, and don’t have a reliable family or social structure to call on. At the close of 2016 there were 437,500 children in foster care. It’s estimated anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 of the children in foster care are at risk for human trafficking. In 2013, FBI raids in 70 cities revealed 60 percent of those rescued had...