Safety TIPS to protect yourself from Trafficking

If you’ve been offered the chance to travel/work/study abroad by a stranger, friend or relative, ask yourself the following:

• Where are you going and why?
• Who is paying for your journey? – If someone is offering to pay for you, find out why.
• Is the offer to good to be true? If it sounds too good, it probably is!
• Talk about it with friends, family and people who you trust. If they have doubts, find out why -   maybe they are right.

Here is a checklist of advice before you, or someone you know, goes abroad:

• Contact the embassy of the country you’re going to and check up on what visas you might need to live, work or study. If you have found the information yourself from an official source, no-one can tell you different.

• Before you travel photocopy your passport and travel documents and leave them with someone   you trust.
• Leave contact numbers and addresses where you can be reached with a parent or friend.
• Take the address and phone number of your embassy/consulate in your destination country, in case you should need them.
• Don’t give your passport to anyone except customs officials or the police.

Source MTV Exit

Please report suspicious activities involving potential human trafficking case to law enforcement agents. Please check the information below on how to identify victims of human trafficking.