Prevent Child Trafficking Through Education

Dear Friends,

Thank you for your continued support of The Freedom Story. This quarter we focused on understanding how COVID-19 has impacted our community. This includes partnering with families living in poverty to help them generate more income, so that they can keep their children in school, rather than having to pull them out, putting them at risk of being trafficked and exploited.

In the last 3 months, we have raised over $9,000 through GlobalGiving. We at The Freedom Story cannot thank you enough! Because of you, we have been able to do some great work in our Sustainable Livelihoods program.

We are working with 15 families to generate income through things like planting vegetables and raising pigs and chickens. Each family has an average of 5 family members, and nine of the families have elderly family members. Half of the families have an average income of less than $1,270 USD per year. The average debt is $4,200 USD, largely due to agriculture and educational costs.

We have supported these families to begin these activities with financial assistance from The Freedom Story. We supplement this with home visits and skills and knowledge training. In the last 3 months, we have conducted 54 home visits. We also conducted a training for 27 community members on financial literacy in order to help them manage their finances better.

Thank you so much for your support of these families. Together we are breaking the cycle of trafficking at the source.

In Hope,

The Freedom Story

Links:

• The Role of the Family
• Changes on the Ground