One Tweet Fiction Project to Help Stop Slavery Worldwide

With the approach of the World Cup in June of 2010 in South Africa, the world has a unique opportunity to shine the light on the horrendous worldwide problem of slavery — often called human trafficking — whose worldwide numbers are incredibly large.

Instead of telling you these huge numbers, we're going to talk about one eight-year-old girl:

Imagine being abducted at the age of eight and repeatedly sexually and physically abused until you are so ill that your battered body is dumped back where you were abducted months before.  Then only by the grace of God does your body recover.  But your mind?

This scenario or ones like it are repeated over and over again throughout the world, but particularly in certain countries.  And, yes, South Africa is one of the countries where this is a little known but huge problem.

As the world turns it focus to the World Cup games in South Africa, now is the time to act against this crime against humanity.

And here’s where @OneTweetFiction comes in.   

We are going to write a group-effort story about this crime against humanity in the hopes that a compelling fiction piece may move people to action more readily than all the documentaries and serious opinion pieces. 

Each day, several lines tweeted from the day before will be added at http://www.stopslaveryworldwide.com/story and people will be able to read what’s been written so far.  When the story ends, we hope to make available a free audio version.

In the spirit of the season we are going to start this story on Monday, December 21^st.  We’ll tweet the first line then and welcome your tweets as part of the story.  Just be sure to include #otf at the end of each tweet.

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