by Terry FitzPatrick | Jan 5, 2018 | Advocacy, Slavery in the News, Thought Leadership
Free the Slaves believes in stopping slavery at its source by changing the conditions that allow slavery to exist. You can read about this important strategic focus today in a CNN.com op-ed from FTS Executive Director Maurice Middleberg. “How to Stop the Slave Trade...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Dec 26, 2017 | Artists Against Slavery, Become an Abolitionist, Faith in Action, I Am the Change, Take Action
Free the Slaves donors all have one thing in common: a burning desire to make slavery a thing of the past. That’s why we sent award-winning documentary filmmakers this year to spotlight four Free the Slaves donors to learn how they discovered that slavery still...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Dec 20, 2017 | FTS Model for Freedom, Ghana
For the first six years of his life, David enjoyed a happy and supportive upbringing in a village in Ghana. But then, his father fell ill and died – and David’s life was upended. Unable to support seven children, David’s mother sent him to labor on dangerous...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Dec 14, 2017 | FTS Model for Freedom, India
People become enslaved for a reason. And if we don’t change those circumstances, a trafficking survivor is at extreme risk of being enslaved again. That’s why our India team provided Chhatanki with a way to support himself after liberation from a local brick kiln....
by Terry FitzPatrick | Sep 21, 2017 | Advocacy, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation, Slavery in the News, Thought Leadership
This week’s release of new estimates on the scope of slavery worldwide are both shocking and encouraging. Shocking because the figures are worse than many experts had believed. But encouraging because the report’s release at the United Nations General Assembly has...
