AMAZING CHANGE: In conjunction with the February (U.S.)/March (UK) release of “Amazing Grace,” the Walden Media film about the life of William Wilberforce, IJM partnered with prominent anti-slavery groups in the related awareness and fundraising campaign, The Amazing Change.

The Amazing Change campaign is an integrated social justice campaign to increase understanding of the historical issue of slavery and the abolitionist movement, raise awareness about modern-day slavery, motivate people to abolish slavery, raise a new generation of youth to become abolitionists, and engage new activists in a life-long journey to invest back into the world. Funding received through the campaign will benefit IJM and the other founding abolition members Child Voice International, Rugmark Foundation and Free the Slaves.

NOT FOR SALE: Additionally, IJM’s anti-slavery efforts are featured prominently in the book “Not for Sale” by David Batstone (HarperCollins), released February 5, and in a documentary of the same name. Both the documentary and book examine the problems of human trafficking and slavery and profile today’s leading abolitionists and what they are doing to stop slavery in our time.

YOUTH CAMPAIGN: In a related online youth movement, IJM joins Hagar International, CAST (the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking), Polaris Project and Free the Slaves to educate young activists about the problem of modern slavery and encourages them to raise their voice and take action.

MUSEUM: Finally, IJM’s work to combat modern-day slavery and sex trafficking was chronicled in an exhibit at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH, in January and February and plans are underway for the exhibit to tour U.S. museums and galleries through the next two years. IJM contributes real-life casework, slavery artifacts to and provides an online forum for visitors to write a message of hope to a recently freed slave.