"March for Freedom" in Varna
The biggest information campaign against human trafficking - Walk For Freedom - was held in Varna on 14th October, Saturday, 11 am, starting from the Festival and Congress Centre. The march then continued along the boulevard "Knyaz Boris I" and ended at "Bulgaria Square". The initiative is part of the events on the occasion of the 18th of October - European Day against Trafficking in Human Beings. It is organized by the A21 Bulgarian Foundation, together with the Local Commission for Combating Traffick in Human Beings (LCCTHB), the Prevention Directorate of the Varna Municipality supported by the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings (NCCTHB).
March for Freedom: an annual global day to raise awareness and local action in the fight against human trafficking. The March takes place on one specific day in October, at one specific time around the world, allowing the event to be communicated as global, large-scale, and with an avalanche effect. In a column, one behind the other, the participants (about 130 students from schools where there are open UCPs; students from the universities of Varna, teachers, and professionals with an active civic position) walked silently, the symbolic distance in support of the fight against one of the most serious global crimes - human trafficking. The event is advocacy in nature and aims to show that there are people in our city who are aware of the problem and disagree with the rapidly growing statistics of people living in slavery.
The March for Freedom is a global mobilization event, uniting tens of thousands of people, taking millions of steps, in hundreds of cities around the world. We walked to break slavery and shake it to its foundations, with every step we took. By holding this Walk, we are supporting the work of the A21 Foundation, a global NGO that fights human trafficking in Bulgaria and around the world.
The aim of the March is to draw public and media attention to the problem of modern slavery and to inform people about the National Anti-Trafficking Helpine - 0800 20 100. The residents and guests of Varna witnessed something unusual and different, the help of which drew attention to the problem of human trafficking, to the scale of trafficking in human beings, in the direction of prevention and raising public awareness.