"Northern India Overview"

In the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the Freedom Fund is investing in a comprehensive intervention, supporting 17 Indian NGOs to address all forms of slavery across 24 districts. In this hotspot, slavery is especially common in agriculture, brick kilns and stone quarries, the commercial sex industry, and domestic work. Partners run a range of programs, providing communities with economic alternatives and information about their rights, rescuing victims from exploitative workplaces, and giving legal aid in support of criminal prosecutions of traffickers...Since the program began in early 2014, our partners have liberated over 2,000 adults and children from slavery, helped nearly 8,000 vulnerable children into school, and provided over 90,000 people with critical information about trafficking risks and rights...