By Chealsia Smedley | Communications Coordinator
Since 2008, thanks to donors like you, The Freedom Story scholarship students have achieved a 90% high school graduation rate.
A 90% graduation rate is an incredible achievement and a testament to your impact.
But to see that, we first need to understand the context:
The Freedom Story selects scholarship students who are the most vulnerable in rural Thailand. Our risk factor analysis measures 7 key trafficking risks, including poverty, home life instability, and family histories of abuse or trafficking.
Most of our students’ families live on less than $1 per person per day. And only 4% of their guardians finished high school.
As soon as someone joins our program, they are 86% more likely to graduate from high school than their guardians. When students receive consistent support to stay in school, mentorship, and trafficking prevention training, their stories shift from vulnerability to possibility.
When you give to The Freedom Story, whether one-time or monthly with The Freedom Chapter, you give children the resources and tools they need to break cycles.
Every scholarship student leaves our program equipped to break cycles of poverty and exploitation and replace them with cycles of freedom and opportunity.
Since 2008, we have given more than 1,000 students access to education.
Every June, we welcome a new generation of students into our prevention programming. The impact extends far beyond these students when they share their prevention knowledge with families, peers, and communities.
One of our graduating students, Misu, put it this way:
“I used to be incredibly shy, but now I’m a leader who goes out with the Freedom Story staff to share the knowledge I’ve learned with younger students and friends.
I believe that, with all the support I’ve received, I will have a better life, be able to take care of myself, and contribute to others. May the opportunities you have given me return to you.”
Thank you for being someone who gives vulnerable children access to opportunity, freedom, and hope.
We couldn’t do this vital work without you!
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