Estevan's Jacqueline Peeace had quite the week last week. In that seven-day stretch, she donned 50 pounds of firefighter gear, tried her hand a Spartan workout, put her basketball skills to the test, and learned that her "normally chill dog" does not like whistles. Most importantly, in doing all of this, she helped raise thousands of dollars to fight human trafficking. 

Peeace participated in challenges all week before they culminated in a walk on Saturday. She did this as part of Ally Global Foundation's Move For Freedom Campaign, a campaign raising money to fight human trafficking, specifically in Nepal, Laos, and Cambodia.  

"They're focussed on the recovery of survivors," Peeace said. "So they have a few safe homes and safe work projects to help break the cycle of human trafficking. Then the fundraising event was something called Move For Freedom. Move For Freedom was a virtual event that was taking place on Saturday, and it was people all over the country coming together, virtually of course, and moving for freedom."

This meant people going hiking, cycling, or doing 10K runs to help raise money for Ally. The goal of the virtual event, according to Ally, was to raise $250,000. They did a little better than that, raising $305,000. Peeace personally raised $2315.

"Most of that came from Estevan," she said, "which was so incredible considering my initial goal was $1000... There were lots of people who donated who I haven't talked to in a long time, so it was really special to be able to reconnect with some people and to kind of reconnect back with my hometown which is so cool."

In addition to the walk, Peeace did five challenges to help raise awareness and amass donations. She did exercises in her front yard, took part in a basketball challenge with Carter Kuchinka, a member of the University of Calgary Dinos basketball team, fought through a fitness challenge with Fresh Air Fitness, and put on full firefighting gear and conducted some drills, supervised by Nolan Lacoste of the Estevan Fire Department. 

"I'm so happy (with how it went)," she said. "It did totally reveal that I need to work out so more, so maybe I'll consider doing some challenges in the future even without fundraising."

Peeace has worked with Ally before as she is good friends with the creators. She's become a staunch supporter of the group and will vouch for the work they do, having seen it for herself.

"They're such an amazing organization," she said. "Super trustworthy. Because I've actually been to some of the safe homes that they support so I've seen it firsthand, the work that they do." 

Peeace added that most of the safe homes for victims of human trafficking do face financial struggles, so every donation helped.