Global Prayer Day to End Modern Slavery Now!

Join us on Black Friday for an open faith prayer to hold space for the 50+ million people in modern slavery and learn from expert speakers

Join us on Black Friday for a Global Prayer and Talks from Expert Speakers to End Modern Slavery Now!

Empowerment Collective, a 100% survivor-led organization dedicated to ending modern slavery, invites people of all faiths, paths, and spiritual traditions to unite in a Global Open-Faith Prayer - a shared moment of reflection, compassion, and collective action to End Modern Slavery Now!

This marks our first annual Global Open-Faith Prayer. We come together on Black Friday, a day that has come to symbolize unconscious consumption-a cycle that steals human dignity and harms our planet. In 2024 alone, consumers spent over $24.1 billion shopping online during Black Friday and Cyber Monday (Adobe Newsroom, 2024).

Prayer is the universal language of deeper connection and compassion.We invite you to transform this day into one of conscious connection - by becoming a conscious consumer, protecting both human dignity and our planet.

Together, we hold a powerful intention: to demand mandatory supply chain transparency labeling for all products within global economic and trade systems — ensuring every product tells the truth about how it was made and who made it.

Most importantly, today we remember the 50 million people still invisible within our global system, whose dignity has been stolen by greed, control, and lack of transparency.

May this day of overconsumption become one of conscious intention, where we all choose with clarity, transparency, and accountability.

All funds generated from ticket donations will go to support the survivor and grassroots leaders you will hear from at the event and their projects bringing deeply rooted impacts to communities facing modern slavery.

Special thanks to our event sponsors:

Learn more about the Chicago Climate Action Museum at www.climateactionmuseum.org
Learn more about the Physical Intelligence Institute at www.physicalintelligenceinstitute.com
Learn more about Talitha Kum at www.talithakum.info
Learn more about Footprint to Freedom at www.footprinttofreedom.org
Learn more about Local Women's Handicrafts at www.localwomenshandicrafts.com

Speakers:
Nasreen Sheikh: Open Faith Prayer
Emma Seppälä, Ph.D.: Meditation
Zoya El-Miari: The Path of Returning: Stories of War, Healing, and Human Dignity
Orsola de Castro: The Issue of Modern Slavery and Black Friday
Malaika Oringo: Survivor Leadership
Louise Xin: Fashion, Compassion, and the Power of Collective Prayer
Dr. Claire Dale: Introduction to Physical Intelligence Techniques
Closing Remarks: Sahin Pravin, Adeline Daab