HOUSTON – The latest campaign dedicated to raising awareness of human trafficking and sex crimes to the public is starting to become well-known in various Southeastern Texas areas.
“Can You See Me?” was organized by global anti-human trafficking group A21, which partnered with Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott, the Southeast Texas Alliance Against Trafficking and various other organizations and agencies. The main objective of the campaign is to raise billboards around Southeast Texas depicting a child accompanied with pleas to call the National Human Trafficking Hotline to report any possible human trafficking activity.
Jefferson County District Attorney Special Crimes Chief Kim Duchamp spoke with KFDM 6 on how human trafficking victims are often picked up alongside Interstate 10, with the billboards placed there being used to spread the message across the community as efficiently as possible.
“I-10 is … the route that many traffickers use,” Duchamp said. “They move these girls and women, and boys for that matter, up and down Interstate 10.”
Survivors and allies gathered on Nov. 15 to unveil the billboards to the public and officially introduce the campaign to the community. The campaign will continue to October.
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