by Terry FitzPatrick | Aug 12, 2015 | FTS Model for Freedom, Ghana, Slavery-Free Commerce
Ghana’s gold mines are a source of prosperity and pain. Gold is a huge part of the country’s economy. But for children, mining can bring misery and death.“The conditions in the unlicensed gold mining sites are deplorable, especially for children,” says Free the Slaves...
by Joha Braimah | May 26, 2015 | FTS Model for Freedom, Thought Leadership
We headed to Burkina Faso earlier this year for a training program that traditionally does not fall under the Free the Slaves model for intervention. Our mandate was to train 29 community facilitators on issues of child labor and slavery, social protection and data...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Oct 20, 2014 | FTS Updates, Ghana, Haiti, Research, Monitoring & Evaluation
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is working to integrate anti-trafficking efforts into America’s development projects around the globe. That’s because modern-day slavery can reduce the success of international development efforts. USAID officials...
