Act

Get Knowledgeable.
Read the information about the issues on our website. Join our email list via our contact form to learn more and stay updated on important issues.

Talk to Someone.
Tell them what you know about child prostitution, pornography and trafficking. This is the first step but in some ways the hardest one. Child abuse and exploitation exists in the shadows, out of the sight of good people who want to do away with it but who find it difficult to talk about. The only way to ensure we can stop it is by acknowledging the scope and impact of commercial sexual exploitation of children. Talking about it is the first step to ending it.

Give.
Click here to make a donation to ECPAT-USA to help protect all children’s right to grow up free from abuse and exploitation.

Hold an ECPAT-USA fundraiser at your home.
Decide on an amount of money to charge, provide dinner, brunch or snacks. Distribute ECPAT-USA information about the commercial sexual exploitation of children. At the event, encourage people to take other action steps listed here.

Sponsor a Panel Discussion.
Iinvite a guest speaker to your church, club, school or other venue to talk about some aspect of the commercial sexual exploitation of children. In some cases, ECPAT-USA can provide a speaker or identify people in your area who might be willing to speak. If you are a college student, click here for more information about bringing the issue to your college campus: Download packet

Patronize a Responsible Company
When you travel for business or pleasure or if you are organizing a conference, use a company that has demonstrated its commitment to protecting children by patronizing companies that signed the Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism. For more information about child sex tourism and the Code of Conduct, look at Our Issues on this website. Link here to find a list of companies that have signed the Code of Conduct. Click here for a list of companies that have signed the Code of Conduct

Write letters.
Write letters to U.S. hotel companies asking them to sign the Code of Conduct. Click here to find a sample letter you can send.

Write a letter to your Congressperson asking him or her to write to the CEOs of U.S. hotel companies about the Code of Conduct. The following members of Congress have already written these letters: Todd Akin, Spencer Bachus, Roscoe Barlett, Rob Bishop, Mary Fallin, J. Randy Forbes, Phil Gingrey, Virgil Goode, Jeb Hensarling, Wally Herger, John Kline, Doug Lamborn, Carolyn Maloney, Donald Manzullo, Mike Pence, Joe Pitts, Christopher Smith, Bill Sali, Zach Wamp, Dave Weldon, and Frank Wolf. If yours is not on the list click here to find a sample letter you can send to him or her. Download a Sample Letter (Microsoft Word Format) To download the adobe pdf version, click here.

Find out who owns the airport in your city and ask the administrator to post signs in departure lounges informing all passengers that it is against the law to sexually exploit children everywhere. Under the U.S. PROTECT Act, sex tourists can be prosecuted after their return to the U.S. for exploiting a child in another country. Many people don’t know about it or what to do if they suspect it is going on. Contact ECPAT-USA to find out more information.
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Shop

Buy a Tassatag Luggage Tag (stands for Travelers Against Sex Slavery And Trafficking).  A TassaTag is a 4”x6” bright, heavy, hand-woven cotton luggage tag that helps you spot your luggage more easily while reclaiming children's lives.These are produced by survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking in Asia and proceeds support the work of ECPAT-USA. 

The TassaTag project will raise funds for the following:

• Train people in the Travel Industry to take an active role against sex tourism.
• Inform the public that sex with children is against the law everywhere and if caught the person will be prosecuted and extradited to their home country, if necessary.
• Mobilize Congress against child sex tourism.

Today it is estimated that 5,000 children are trafficked into the United States each year and 25% of the men who exploit children overseas are American. Click here to purchase a Tassatag (www.tassatag.org)

Made by Survivors
Buy products produced by survivors of trafficking and those at-risk of trafficking. ECPAT-USA partners with The Emancipation Network (TEN), selling beautifully hand-crafted items made by trafficking survivors and high-risk women and girls from Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, India, Russia, Ukraine and Uganda.  TEN offers survivors a means for self-sufficiency and an economic alternative to further exploitation.  Browse the catalog and when you check out, enter the partner code of "ECPATUSA."  a portion of your total purchase price will benefit ECPAT-USA's programs: http://store.madebysurvivors.com/Catalog.

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Intern/Volunteer

Intern
ECPAT-USA seeks the services of two or three students interns each semester and over the summer at our office in New York City. Normally internships run from May/June through the summer; from September through December; and from January through May. If you are interested in applying for an unpaid internship, send a resume and cover letter indicating the time period you would have available for work to ecpat@ecpat-usa.org. We will contact you to conduct a phone interview two or three months before the beginning date of the internship.

Volunteer
We keep a database of volunteers both in New York City and outside who are available to do occasional projects for us. If you want to be listed as a volunteer please fill out this volunteer form click here and send it to ecpat@ecpatusa.org.
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