LifeWay Network Creates TargetList to Furnish Safe House
This holiday season, LifeWay Network, Inc. invites you to celebrate the opening of our new Safe House. The start of this Safe House is very exciting as housing options and direct services for survivors of human trafficking are very limited. We have a great many needs to fulfill in order to get everything up and [...]
Safe House Opens
Safe House Opens This month LifeWay Network has opened the doors to our safe house. We are offering long term harbor to women survivors of human trafficking. The LifeWay Network Safe House has been years in the planning and the urgency for meeting the service needs of human trafficking survivors in the New York area [...]
Human Trafficking of Young Women
Originally posted on March 28, 2011 on the http://www.fordham.edu/ website in its IN THE NEWS column. Religious Groups Fight Against Human Trafficking on American Soil Contact: Janet Sassi 212-636-7577 fallersassi@fordham.edu More than 200 members of the religious and academic communities came together on March 26 at Fordham University to help combat local trafficking of girls [...]
ICCR applauds Delta Airways
Members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility applaud Delta for its leadership in adopting the Tourism Code of Conduct (The Code) and encourage other carriers to follow suit. NEW YORK, March 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – After intense engagement with management on company human rights policies, ICCR members and shareholders were heartened by Delta [...]
Saying Goodbye to Craiglist’s Adult Ads
By Veronica Matta October 2010- Early last month, the popular online advertising service known as Craigslist replaced its adult services section with the word censored – due to the adult section’s possible implications in forced prostitution and human trafficking. At first, some worried that the removal was not a permanent change but a temporary one [...]
Sign petition to end sex trafficking in Hilton Hotels
Please join the campaign by to end sex trafficking in Hilton Hotels. Add your name to the petition urging Hilton to sign The Code against child exploitation and trafficking by clicking on the link below. The more people join this campaign spearheaded by AVAAZ.org, the more powerful the call will be. Please help spread the word. [...]
2nd Annual Autumn Tea Held on September 19th
The 2nd Annual Autumn Tea was held once again at Our Lady of Grace Retreat Center in Manhasset, New York. Larger than last years audience, many new friends of LifeWay Network came together to share conversation around the issue of human trafficking. Marita Franzman, our education coordinator introduced Sr. Joan Dawber who spoke of the progress [...]
Winter Fundraiser Brings Hopeful News
Our Winter Fundraising Event was held on January 23 in Manhattan. Sister Joan Dawber, Executive Director of the Lifeway Network spoke on behalf of victims of human trafficking to an audience of 30 at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel convent. The video, Not My Life from the US State Department was shown to the group. Sister Joan then related [...]
1st Annual Autumn Tea
On Sunday, October 25, LifeWay Network held an Autumn Tea at Our Lady of Grace Spiritual Center, Manhasset, N.Y. from 2:30 to 5 pm. Approximately 76 men and women attended in support of LifeWay Network’s mission to end human trafficking. Those who came began the afternoon listening to a panel of well-informed and dedicated women, [...]
Sister Joan Addresses AAUW in Garden City
Sister Joan Dawber, Executive Director of LifeWay Network, gave a presentation about the organization and its efforts in combating human trafficking for the American Association of University Women on Monday October 5, 2009 at the Garden City Library. The presentation began with human trafficking terminology, putting an emphasis on the most important aspect of human trafficking, [...]
