Welcome to the Community Connections Project (CCP) outreach page for:

The CCP is supporting THE DAY MY GOD DIED through a variety of community and classroom engagement activities and resources with the television broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens, November 30, 2004 at 10:00pm. Check local listings.

Get involved! Email outreach@itvs.org.

Young girls whose lives were shattered by the child sex trade describe the day they were abducted from their villages as "the day my god died." By weaving footage from the brothels of Bombay with these girls' stories, Levine offers an unforgettable examination of the growing plague of child sex slavery.

ITVS’s Community Connections Project (CCP) is partnering with organizations to target the broad audience still unaware of the global epidemic of child sex trafficking. The campaign reaches out to:

• Public policy makers including elected officials and government agencies that monitor U.S. policy on child sex trafficking
• Organizations that work on human rights, women’s rights, child welfare, public health and global relief
• The faith-based community
• Direct service organizations that work with trafficked women and girls
• Students in women’s studies, international affairs, law, public policy and Asian studies programs
• Male offenders of violence against women and men’s awareness groups
• Travel agents and professionals in the international tourism industry
• Law agencies responsible for enforcing sex trafficking laws

The goals of the outreach and education campaign are to:

• Promote public awareness about the global child sex trafficking industry—including the more than 45,000 women trafficked to the United States each year
• Support the work of organizations, policy makers and law enforcement fighting to end global sex trafficking and empower young women to escape servitude
• Incorporate the film and educational discussion guide into university curricula
• Educate viewers about the global spread of HIV/ AIDS through the sex trafficking industry
• Promote awareness of child sex tourism amongst travel professionals

All materials are available to our national and local partners and public television stations at no cost. These include:

• Press Release
• Project Overview (PDF)
• National Partner List
• Discussion Guide
• Companion Website at pbs.org
• Outreach Activity Evaluation Form
  Use the evaluation form to measure and share the success of your activities and projected outcomes.

With the support of national partners, public television stations and regional organizers, we want to make a difference in your community by:

• Sponsoring preview screenings and complementary activities on the issue of child sex trafficking
• Conducting educational workshops for law enforcement and policy makers on the issue of child sex trafficking
• Incorporating the film and the corresponding viewer guide into classroom curricula and university forums
• Running educational workshops for male offenders and men’s awareness groups about global violence against women
• Sponsoring workshops for travel professionals about the child sex tourism industry
• Supporting station and community-sponsored film series