The Action

Throughout the course of their project they worked with many different organisations and people, such as 96fm , Redfm , Mary Crilly, Tara McGrath, Cllr. Dara Murphy, Cllr Billy Kelleher, Cllr. Ted Tynan, Lord Mayor Chris O’Leary, UCC Radio, Siobhan Mullally, Nicola O’Sullivan –the Lord Mayor’s secretary, Tara Marshall – the flag maker, Audrey from the Evening Echo.

They set up social media accounts to raise awareness worldwide. They worked with juniors in their school to create posters. They spoke on Cork’s local radio stations, had articles in local newspapers and held demonstrations outside Brown Thomas. They conducted surveys and handed out flyers. They had their flag flying outside the City Hall for a week, They presented their project to a women's club, held a cake sale to raise money for the Sexual Violence Centre and invited senior students to attend a Human Trafficking talk by Siobhan Mullally of the GRETA group.

They visited the red light district in Amsterdam. They invited Mia de Faoite from Dublin who is actively involved in the Turn off the Red Light campaign to give a talk in their school. 

The Impact

They are hoping to continue to raise Awareness about this topic by continuing to update  their social sites and by participating in debates on the radio. They want to try to convince politicians to make the penalties for the traffickers more severe.

Their visit to the Red Light District in April, had a profound effect on the #TIMB team as they saw first-hand the plight of trafficked women and they felt a renewed sense of purpose to continue raising awareness of human trafficking. They have built a friendship with Mary Crilly of the sexual violence centre in Cork and will continue to work on projects with her. They have already committed to running the mini marathon for her 'The One In Five' campaign in September.