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Sabre sets up first-ever educational scholarship program for human trafficking survivors
In its inaugural year, the Passport to Freedom scholarship program will offer human trafficking survivors up to
"By making education more attainable, these scholarships can help pave the way for the survivors of labor and sex trafficking to secure gainful employment," said
The scholarship program is a fund of
Scholarship applications will be accepted from
"Now that the funding and framework for the scholarship program is in place, the next important step is to let the organizations working with trafficking survivors know that this scholarship is available so they can encourage and assist their clients to apply," said Barkley.
Sabre has been a pioneer in the travel industry in the fight against human trafficking, launching the Passport to Freedom program in 2012 with a goal of uniting the travel and tourism industry to fight child sex trafficking and human slavery. Since 2012, Sabre's Passport to Freedom program has been generating awareness of human trafficking among Sabre employees and the travel industry as a whole.
Sabre also created a global online training course for travelers and employees of travel-related companies. The curriculum was originally developed to educate Sabre employees on human trafficking including signs to watch for and what to do if they do suspect human trafficking is occurring. Sabre recently made the training publicly available via its website and is working on a version to share with its customers and partners.
Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery where perpetrators profit from the control and exploitation of others. Force, fraud and coercion are used to control other people and induce them to commit acts of sex or labor. Estimated to be a
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