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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, M arch 3 , 2 0 1 7 | 10 ODLC and UWO hostTampon Tuesday The Oakville District Labour Council and United Way Oakville will host a Tampon Tuesday event Tuesday, March 7 to celebrate International Women's Day. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Galaxy Club-Unifor Local 707 Hall, 475 North Service Rd. E., in Oakville. Simultaneous events are taking place across Canada to help women shelters and other or ganizations ensure that women in need have access to necessary feminine hygiene prod ucts. Julia Hanna, owner of Ristorante Julia and founder of HealthyFam, is the guest speaker. There will be entertainment and a light lunch is provided. Those attending are asked to bring feminine hygiene products to be do nated to Sexual Assault & Violence Interven tion Services of Hal ton (SAVIS), Hope Place Centres and The W omen's Centre. If you would like to attend, register at: www.eventbrite.ca/e/tampon-tuesday-tickets31999236578?utm_term =eventurl_text. A IR P O R T HUM$45 OAKVILLE'S LOWEST RATES!! Anti-Human Trafficking Act in the offing continued from p.8 Last year, Halton police investigated 75 cases of human trafficking and laid 68 charges, well up from the 10 charges laid from 80 cases when Halton's hum an trafficking unit w as formed in 2013. Everyone agrees those num bers are a drop in the bucket, compared with how many young girls and women are being victimized. Skwarka said Thursday m orning he checked a website where sex is sold in Halton -- and by 10 a.m. there were 33 ads for Oakville and Burlington. He noted a concerning trend of more and more young girls seeming to be the target of trafficking. Typically, traffickers find vulnerable young girls or women online or out in the community, manipulate them into thinking they love them and are their boyfriend, only to pressure them to then make money for them through selling sex. One girl can make a trafficker $250,000 a year. Halton is not the only community working collaboratively, with coalitions popping up in m ajor Ontario cities over the past couple of years. Recently, Halton MPP and Ontario Status of Women Minister Indira Naidoo-Harris introduced the Anti-Human Trafficking Act which, if passed, would give survivors in Ontario the ability to sue their traffickers and apply for human trafficking-specific restraining orders. US M o n d a y M a rc h 13th , W e d n e s d a y M a rc h 15th a n d Friday M a rc h 17th Shows a t 11 a m & 2 p m a t South O a k v ille C e n tre Try Juggling, Jump Rope, Face Painting and more for free! One hour free interactive workshop following each show. S n u iliO a k v illeC e iH r e " G o tIt Northeast corner of 3rd Line and Rebecca | southoakvillecentre.com 0