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Local organization receives $200,000 for sex trafficking prevention

Thanks to the governor's office, Unbound's "Keeping Students Safe" project will provide human trafficking prevention, education and training to people across Texas.

BRYAN, Texas — Unbound, a multi-national organization fighting human trafficking will be starting a new initiative in Bryan-College station, thanks to a $200,000 grant from Governor Gregg Abbott's office. 

Their "Keeping Students Safe" project will provide human trafficking prevention, education and training to people across Texas.

The grant money for it will be used at the four local unbound chapters, and given their mission, it's safe to say it'll go to good use. 

"It really does focus on creating prevention awareness on students , personnel, educators, parents and caretakers on how to be aware of human trafficking... the funding and the receiving of this grant is a huge deal to us. because it really allows us to go beyond our Brazos County into our surrounding counties across the state of Texas."

Unbound's next scheduled event., "Not in My City," Is on October 19th, and you can find more about it on their website

We are very glad to see this. And proud of those who continued to wo... rk to get this case to this point. _____ "Blakemore allegedly set a quota of commercial sex proceeds - generally about $1,000 or more per day - and required victims turn all earnings over to him, either in bulk cash or via money transfers.

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