Tara Teng

In October 2010, Teng met with Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to discuss human trafficking.[7] In November 2011, Joy Smith and Bruce Stanton, Assistant Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons, hosted a reception in Teng's honour, at which she gave a speech to Senators and MPs about human trafficking.[8]

Teng participated in "Buying Sex is Not a Sport", a campaign during the 2010 Winter Olympics.[13] After participating in Toronto's second annual Freedom Walk in March 2011, she organized the Freedom Week campaign in the Lower Mainland, British Columbia with Todd Hauptman.[17][6][14] That August, she participated in the Ignite the Road to Justice Mission Tour, beginning in Vancouver.[18][19] The tour continued across the country eastwards.[7]

Teng participated in an anti-human trafficking task force in her hometown of Langley, British Columbia, producing a report on measures the community could do to tackle it.[20] In April 2012, Teng and Hauptman presented Langley Township with an "action plan" and asked the township to accept the plan's first two stages, dealing with prevention and education.[21][22]

Teng partnered with World Vision International[23] to give speeches at events raising funds for International Justice Mission, which rescues children from brothels.[24][25]

In June 2011,[26] Teng visited towns and slums in Cambodia and Thailand where families had sold their daughters to sexual slavery.[19][27][7] These included Patpong, Thailand where she partnered with Rahab Ministries Thailand to spend time with female human trafficking survivors.[28] In Chiang Mai, Thailand, Teng spoke to an audience of 40,000 people at the MTV Freedom Concert in support of MTV EXIT, a campaign to end human trafficking and exploitation.[10][29] The Cambodia trip was supported by the advocacy group Traffic Jam[10] and World Orphans.[29]

In February 2012, Teng was a keynote speaker at the Freedom and Honor Conference in Seoul.[27] Later in the year, she travelled to Sri Lanka. There, she visited World Vision's development programs in Thanamalvila Divisional Secretariat and Bogawantalawa to help fundraising efforts.[30]