Our mission is focused on ending human trafficking. Our work includes public outreach via education & events, supporting law enforcement’s efforts to rescue victims, and collaborating with the IT industry to develop new technologies.
Once I knew what was going on in it and to little girls, I wanted to focus primarily on the child sex trade, which is a horrific sentence just in itself to ever have to say, let alone have to start a foundation to stop it. The only way I felt I could sleep was if I started doing stuff about it.
The clear mission, core values and action-oriented dedication of Founder Marisol Nichols to combat modern day slavery and child sex trafficking has fostered meaningful engagement with top Government officials, Federal and State Legislators, Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, White House representatives and like-minded global organizations.
On June 2, 2016, Slavery Free World produced an intimate briefing with Operation Underground Railroad featuring former CIA and Homeland Security Operatives, Tim Ballard and Matt Osborne. We were also honored to have California District Attorney Amanda Hopper, the District Attorney’s Chief Investigator Jason Parker, and Sheriff Deputy Carl Dinwiddie as special guest speakers that evening.
As part of her work with partner Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.), Ms. Nichols had the opportunity to visit an orphanage in Haiti where children rescued from trafficking are placed. After a successful victim rescue operation, in some instances O.U.R. is able to return rescued children to their families.
On July 12, 2016 Congressman Erik Paulsen held an Anti-Trafficking Roundtable in Washington, D.C.. More than a dozen organizations including Foundation for a Slavery Free World, Operation Underground Railroad, Uber, Rights4Girls, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Polaris Project, and The McCain Institute to name a few, were asked to participate in the discussion.
Actress Marisol Nichols, speaks about human trafficking at a town hall meeting with Tulare County District Attorney Tim Ward, and Devon Mathis, an Assembly Member from Tulare County, on Friday night, April 8, 2016 in Visalia.
