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Pietas Coalition Corp. exists to promote awareness, vigilance, and community action to end underage sex trafficking in South Carolina through preventative education, veteran engagement, and citizen empowerment.

Why We Continue to Capture Media Attention

Pietas Coalition continues to attract media attention because its work is highly visible, community centered, and built around action rather than awareness alone. The organization brings child exploitation prevention into public spaces through safety seminars, community events, collaborative campaigns, veteran engagement, and creative initiatives that make difficult subjects more accessible to families. Its programs are designed to move beyond statistics and slogans by showing what prevention can look like at the neighborhood level, while creating opportunities for residents, volunteers, nonprofit partners, and public agencies to participate in protecting vulnerable children.

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What sets Pietas Coalition apart from many traditional NGOs is its multidisciplinary approach to prevention. Rather than operating within a single lane, Pietas connects community education, veteran service, strategic partnerships, public awareness, survivor conscious programming, and civic engagement within one growing coalition model.

 

This allows the organization to translate a complex national problem into practical local action while remaining flexible enough to collaborate across sectors. Pietas Coalition is not simply asking communities to recognize exploitation after harm occurs but rather building programs, partnerships, and protective networks intended to strengthen community vigilance before a child becomes another statistic.

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Our strongest alliances include:

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About Pietas Coalition

Pietas Coalition Corp. is dedicated to community empowerment through various initiatives. We host seminars on anti-trafficking, safety workshops for kids, and promote art as a means of awareness. Our projects include building ADA-compliant curricula and engaging veterans in meaningful activities. Join us in creating safer communities.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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CURRENT AND PAST INITIATIVES

Creative Solutions to Combat Underage Trafficking and Raise Community Awareness

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Pictured (L-R): Sumter walkaThon community signatures, Swan Lake Iris Gardens by S. Drayton, Sumter Special Olympics signatures with sparkle handprints by C. Rimmer.

Sumter's Traveling Canvas

In a bold, creative stand against under-age trafficking, Pietas Coalition Corporation has launched a powerful “traveling art canvas” initiative as part of its awareness campaign. The striking mobile canvas is designed to visit schools, community centers and public events across South Carolina, inviting children, youth and adults to add their messages, prints and symbolic colors; each an etching of hope and refusal to remain silent. Through this visible, participatory artwork, Pietas Coalition seeks to anoint communities with a tangible, shared voice: “We will not look away.”

Community Safety Seminar

​Starting March 9, 2026, Pietas Coalition presents a monthly, family themed safety seminar and art contest. We will continue these interactive workshops at the Community Literacy Lab Microschool, located at 455 Rast Street (co-host). The event will be from 6:00pm - 7:30pm with light refreshments. Visit literacylab.net for pricing and more information.

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Monthly Anti-Trafficking Seminar

​Starting November 5, 2025, Pietas Coalition, in collaboration with Tree of Life Solutions, presents 'Communities Against Trafficking' seminar. We will be at the South Sumter Family Resource Center the first Wednesday of every month (6-7:30pm). You can also join us online via Instagram: instagram.com/treeoflifesolutions/

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For more information, please visit the Anti-Trafficking Seminar page.

2025 'Communities Against Trafficking' Walk-a-Thon

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Pre-Event Virtual Walkthrough

*Read about us in Sumter Living Magazine (October/December 2025)* Thank you to everybody who came out to support the first annual 'Communities Against Trafficking' walkathon. Thank you to Pop Food Truck, Kitty's Bounce Houses, Mela's Bowtique, and Survivor Network North Carolina for making this memorable for our attendees. A special thanks to those who signed our online petition to update harmful terminology to more victim centric language, and to those who signed our vigilant veteran volunteer list!

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We would like to extend our online survey about our community's trafficking perceptions, which will assist with driving our anti-trafficking seminar. Click HERE for survey.

Our Coalition and Partnerships are Growing

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© 2026 by Pietas Coalition Corporation

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