Speaker: Micheline Slattery
Podcast:
Micheline Slattery, former child and domestic slave from Haiti, tells her story and others’: “21st Century Slavery: Living Proof.”
Tuesday, February 10, the spring edition of Pandora’s Box, in conjunction with Voices without Borders, starts with speaker Micheline Slattery, a Haitian orphan who was enslaved at 5 and sold for $2500 at 14. In 21st Century Slavery: Living Proof, she tells of her ordeals in Haiti and of being trafficked to Connecticut. “It’s not something I will ever feel free and comfortable talking about, but I do it because I think it will make a difference,” says Slattery
Slattery will give two presentations: 12:30 p.m. in the Katy Campus Cyber Lounge and 2:30 p.m. in the Town & Country Eagle Room. Question and answer sessions follow each address.
HCC students, faculty, staff and the public are invited to the events: Katy Campus is located at 1550 Foxlake Drive and Town & Country Campus is at 1010 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N. For more information please email michael.ronan@hccs.edu or call 713.718.5750.
For more information on this topic:
- ABC News story on How to Buy a Child in 10 Hours – One Reporter’s Journey Reveals An Epidemic of child Slavery in Haiti. Click here for the story.
- YouTube video: “Poverty in Haiti spawns child slavery”, October 13, 2008. Click here for link
- Campaign to end human trafficking
http://www.notforsalecampaign.org
- American Anti-slavery Group http://www.iabolish.org/index.html
Local organizations:
- Children at Risk http://www.childrenatrisk.org
- Houston Rescue & Restore CoalitionVictims of Human Trafficking http://www.houstonrr.org/
FEB. 25: HUMAN TRAFFICKING ADVOCACY DAY
Children at Risk, Houston Rescue and Restore, and human trafficking coalitions across the state will gather in Austin on Feb. 25th to thank the public officials who are leading the fight against human trafficking and inform other legislators of this important issue.