FACES OF FREEDOM

“Faces of Freedom” is an Instagram installation featuring the people Voices4Freedom has helped free from slavery. Forever.

These photographs were taken at different times during the 3-year journey to freedom. You can probably guess by the light in their eyes where they were in the process.

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Schools Built

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Children Educated

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Coming to Freedom

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People Freed

A new report published by the International Labour Organization, Walk Free, and the International Organization for Migration showed a sharp increase in slavery cases since the last study five years ago. The pandemic has led to a rise in extreme global poverty for the first time in 20 years. The climate crisis and armed conflicts have resulted in unsafe migration, gender-based violence, and the recruitment of child soldiers. The compounding crises have created mass amounts of vulnerability in nearly every country in the world.

Modern Slavery includes forced labor and forced marriage. Our work in Northern India is with villages trapped in debt-bondage slavery, but we find sexual slavery and forced marriage are often taking place as well. Our frontline team works with every person in the community to keep the women and children safe. At Schools4Freedom everyone learns their rights, how to organize, and access government programs while the children are caught up to grade level. Education breaks the cycle of slavery.

At Schools4Freedom an entire village of 100-200 people is given the tools to get free and stay free from slavery
in just three years. It works every time. #freedomfriday

A new report published by the International Labour Organization, Walk Free, and the International Organization for Migration showed a sharp increase in slavery cases since the last study five years ago. The pandemic has led to a rise in extreme global poverty for the first time in 20 years. The climate crisis and armed conflicts have resulted in unsafe migration, gender-based violence, and the recruitment of child soldiers. The compounding crises have created mass amounts of vulnerability in nearly every country in the world.

Modern Slavery includes forced labor and forced marriage. Our work in Northern India is with villages trapped in debt-bondage slavery, but we find sexual slavery and forced marriage are often taking place as well. Our frontline team works with every person in the community to keep the women and children safe. At Schools4Freedom everyone learns their rights, how to organize, and access government programs while the children are caught up to grade level. Education breaks the cycle of slavery.

At Schools4Freedom an entire village of 100-200 people is given the tools to get free and stay free from slavery
in just three years. It works every time. #freedomfriday
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Mohani, 25

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Geeta, 49

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Rinu, 35

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Seema, 28

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