by Staff | Feb 2, 2016 | Become an Abolitionist, FTS Updates, I Am the Change
Meet our development team and learn a little more about who we are and why Free the Slaves matters to us!Katherine Carey: Special Projects OfficerWhy this mission matters to me: I still remember the shock I experienced when my mom, a career-long criminal prosecutor,...
by Staff | May 8, 2015 | FTS Updates, Nepal, Slavery in the News
It’s been two weeks since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal, and we are learning more details about the severity of the impact on our staff and partners.Free the Slaves Nepal Director Neelam Sharma and members of our front-line partner organizations have been...
by Staff | Apr 25, 2015 | FTS Updates, Nepal
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Nepal, as they recover from the devastating earthquake that struck on Saturday. We are relieved to report that staffers for Free the Slaves and our front-line partner organizations are safe with their families at this...
by Staff | Mar 2, 2015 | FTS Updates
The Free the Slaves founders will tell you that people thought they were nuts. Most Americans learned in school that slavery ended with the Civil War. Sure, there are exploited workers in the world today, the founders would hear, but surely it wasn’t slavery. The...
by Staff | Aug 11, 2014 | Haiti
Slavery has been illegal in Haiti longer than anywhere else. Yet the enslavement of children as domestic servants through the restavek system of child trafficking continues to plague the nation. The Walk Free Global Slavery Index estimates more than 209,000 Haitians...
