Wauconda FBLA team tackles human trafficking – Illinois

Wauconda's FBLA Community Service Team — this year consisting of members Kylee Fedorowicz, Rachel Herrera and Daniel Estrada — are focusing their project on the effects of human trafficking on the community of Wauconda.

In recent years, three businesses in Wauconda were shut down because they were participating in illegal human trafficking activity. The Community Service Team was shocked after hearing this, mainly because most people find it difficult to talk about.

The Community Service Team wanted to educate youth and the community at large by making the issue known to the public.

During National Human Trafficking Awareness month in January, the team made about 600 blue ribbons and passed them out during school lunch periods. They also human trafficking and it affects their community.

When team members were first introduced to the topic, they were informed that Wauconda has added the Wauconda 123 Ordinance to make it more difficult for illegitimate massage parlors to operate in the community. That was the major source of human trafficking in the village.

This ordinance required employees to have the proper license to operate a massage parlor in Illinois and that the employers put official addresses for all their employees on file.

Upon learning this, the Community Service Team decided to travel to village board meetings in Island Lake, Volo and other villages that feed into Wauconda High School to advocate for the same — or similar — ordinance to be passed.

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