Protecting our Children, our Future…
Our Children are our future and our job is to protect them…. Unfortunately, nowadays, their life could be affected due to sexual abuse with commercial purposes and therefore their future impacted.
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Today the estimated number from UNICEF indicates that there are 2 .5 million children abused around the world. Some of these children are abused by travelers looking for a different experience. Their age starts as early as 3 months and goes up to 18 years old.
Sabre as a Social Responsible company and concern on this type of impact, wanted to take some action, so this year our Mexican team decided to work closely with an organization call “Fundación Infantia” (Infantia Foundation) who’s purpose and mission in life is to communicate children rights, reinforce them thought different programs and most important, communicate how to provide an abuse free environment.
This organization has been working very hard during the last ten years especially in the travel Industry to prevent and protect the children from sexual abuse with commercial purposes. 
They have demonstrated that with training, education and a good communication campaign multiple barriers can be created to prevent the occasional sexual abuse.
Their campaign promotes and defends children rights thought different channels by educating who touches our industry such as airlines, hotel chains, car rentals, tourism schools, universities, corporations, civil associations and local government in conjunction with the support from International organizations like UNICEF.
The Mexican Team has been organizing since last year monthly charity activities to benefit orphans and elderly mainly. In this case and during the month of April, for the Give Time Together Campaign, the team selected a very special topic, which is “Protecting our Children, our Future”….. The Sabre Mexico team of 130 employees (including all interns) attended a customized training provided by Infantia to learn and understand the importance of this topic, but most important this was a train the trainer session in order to replicate the message and conduct workshops in our community.
Each employee will train at least 90 people in their communities, schools, corporations, associations, churches and Mexican travel industry before the end of July. The total impact of “Protecting our Children campaign” will be more than 11,700 people and the objective is to have a better understanding of children rights and how to protect them, our most valuable asset in our society and our future!!.
The team also will be distributing brochures promoting the campaign and baggage tags for travelers..
People traveling for leisure or business are promoting and supporting our great travel industry; people traveling to abuse children should not be welcome anywhere nor should be related to our beautiful industry….
Building our future, a better future for our children.
Committee on the Rights of the Child
This is an absolutely amazing program and a true strategic fit aligning with our objective of not just being socially responsible in general, but finding ways to proactively make a difference in our industry. Just wonderful!
Ojala que hay un dia cuando este problema no existe!
Thank you to all of you who worked on this!!!