The FTS Blog provides a platform for dialogue about how slavery affects communities around the world—and what can be done to eliminate it.
Is your birthday coming up? If so, stop for a minute and think about this: becoming one year wiser can now translate into a child slavery survivor in Ghana being able to afford a school uniform.
While you are free to decide how you want to celebrate your birthday, or perhaps not celebrate it at all, remember that millions of people worldwide are trapped in modern slavery.
The $50 your mom spent on getting you a new pair of sneakers you rarely read more >
Three square meals a day. It is fundamental for proper nutrition. But a nourishing breakfast, hearty lunch and wholesome dinner are distant dreams for people in slavery. They are typically fed just enough to stay alive to work another day.
Donating to Free the Slaves is like putting food on the table for some of the world’s most deprived families. Slavery survivors are paid for their labor. Freedom allows them to provide nourishing meals for their children and themselves.
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Slavery stops innovation dead in its tracks. It keeps children out of school. It blocks entrepreneurs from access to credit. It steals a community’s wealth and labor and hope.
Freedom brings creativity and positivity. This jumpstarts a village economy. People start savings associations and small businesses. Children are educated. Infrastructure improves. Villagers chart their own futures and become self-reliant. When people are free, innovation becomes possible.
Your contribution to Free the Slaves does more than free people from human traffickers. It read more >
Last week brought high praise for our program to combat child trafficking in Ghana. It came directly from the village chief of Lolonya in the Greater Accra Region. He said our “Growing Up Free” project “has been a blessing for this community and for the children.”
The chief’s comments came as a Washington delegation from the U.S. State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP) visited the village to learn how the program read more >
Traffickers don’t care about the health of people they enslave. No doctor visits for those who fall sick. No vaccinations for children. No prenatal care for pregnant women.
That’s why the work of Free the Slaves is so vital. We ensure that the people we liberate receive proper medical treatment in freedom. I hope you can take a moment today to make or renew your annual contribution. You will be supporting both human rights and public health.
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Field testing is underway for our latest training initiative. A Free the Slaves team this month debuted our new handbook on the liberation, rehabilitation and reintegration of people who’ve been trapped in modern slavery.
The first five-day beta test workshop was conducted in Ghana. More than 20 front-line field workers from International Justice Mission (IJM), Afrikids, the Don Bosco Child Protection Center, International Needs Ghana (INGH), read more >
I am a descendant of slaves. Some of my ancestors were from Malaysia and Indonesia, brought to South Africa to work in the port of Cape Town.
It always surprises Americans when I tell them that people were brought to Africa more than a century ago and enslaved.
Recently, I was the one who was surprised. I had the honor of producing the new Free the Slaves video, “Don’t Buy into Slavery.”
I was amazed to see the haunting images read more >
You probably take many of life’s essentials for granted. A good education. A nourishing dinner. A clean drink of water. A visit to the doctor. A safe place to sleep.
These basics are denied to people in slavery. That’s why your support to liberate the enslaved is urgent. The individuals, families and communities you assist flourish in freedom — with better schools, nutrition, health care, gender equality and small business development. Freedom makes everything possible.
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With tens of millions of individuals victimized by traffickers and slaveholders, the world urgently needs solutions that can be effectively and efficiently implemented at-scale in a wide variety of situations.
I was happy to see that many of my colleagues in India’s human rights community were eager to hear how the Free the Slaves Community Liberation Initiative is designed to meet this global challenge.
I had the privilege of being a keynote speaker during my recent trip to India at a read more >
The Dominican Republic (D.R.) is a source, transit and destination country for trafficking in persons (TIP). Trafficking is pervasive in agricultural production for sugar, rice and coffee, the construction sector in expanding urban zones, domestic servitude, forced begging and tourism.
Program:
The goal of the two-year project is to enable a multisector response and build local resistance within vulnerable communities in Santo Domingo, Santo Cristobal, and Puerto Plata. Specific objectives:
Enhance coordination among stakeholders and institutionalize victim-centered investigations and prosecution of TIP read more >
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New York: Upon request, a copy of the latest annual report can be obtained from the organization or from the Office of the Attorney General by writing to the Charities Bureau at 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.
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