"Everything we do is weighed against one simple question: will this free slaves and help them stay free?"
Free the Slaves liberates slaves around the world and changes the systems that allow slavery to persist. We are UGA students committed to doing our part.
"Through the mechanism of bonded labor, men, women, and children are forced to work in brick kilns, rice mills, construction, stonebreaking, agriculture, begging, domestic work, and embroidery factories – as well as in brothels and roadside red-light districts, now widely dispersed in the countryside. Forced and fake marriages are also now widely used as mechanisms for trafficking adolescent girls into domestic slavery and sexual exploitation.
Since 2001, [FTS] has enabled many government officials to become allies in the struggle against slavery and to understand the violent criminality of bonded labor slavery and sex slavery.
Above all, the strength of this work is the constant presence of frontline workers alongside those in slavery. Every day, these workers help people in slavery to gradually break down all the obstacles in their minds and in reality that keep them from freedom..."
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Since 2001, [FTS] has enabled many government officials to become allies in the struggle against slavery and to understand the violent criminality of bonded labor slavery and sex slavery.
Above all, the strength of this work is the constant presence of frontline workers alongside those in slavery. Every day, these workers help people in slavery to gradually break down all the obstacles in their minds and in reality that keep them from freedom..."
Visit Free the Slaves to learn more!
"FTS’ Nepal Program Has Four Main Approaches:
- Working with over 120 rural communities as they bring trafficked children home and find ways to permanently end trafficking from their villages.
- Strengthening and uniting women and girls in the restaurants and dance bars of Kathmandu, so they can prevent slavery and sexual violence.
- Helping the Nepal government improve its actions against slavery
- Training hundreds of field staff of the large anti-poverty development projects in Nepal, so that they can identify trafficking and slavery, and help prevent community members who are migrating for work from being enslaved. "
Free the Slaves currently has activists located in Haiti, India, Nepal, Ghana, DRC, and Brazil.
"Slavery flourishes when people cannot meet their basic needs, and lack economic opportunity, education, healthcare and honest government. A holistic approach is required to eradicate slavery forever. That's why we:
"Everything we do is weighed against one simple question: will this free slaves and help them stay free?"
-Free the Slaves
"Slavery flourishes when people cannot meet their basic needs, and lack economic opportunity, education, healthcare and honest government. A holistic approach is required to eradicate slavery forever. That's why we:
- Free slaves around the world by working with grassroots organizations where slavery flourishes.
- Record and share their stories so people in power can see slavery and be inspired to work for freedom.
- Enlist businesses to clean slavery out of their product chains and empower consumers to stop buying into slavery.
- Work with governments to produce effective anti-slavery laws then hold them to their commitments.
- Research what works and what doesn't so that we use resources strategically and effectively to end slavery. Forever.
"Everything we do is weighed against one simple question: will this free slaves and help them stay free?"
-Free the Slaves