Frequently Asked Questions
Our Work
We are a non-profit, Australian-based charity that partners with communities at risk of human trafficking worldwide to deliver life-changing and sustainable education and development projects.
Our current goal is to complete The Pokhara Project in partnership with 3 Angels Nepal. This sustainable building project includes a self-funding school, women’s safe haven, vulnerable children’s homes, a community medical centre and vocational training facilities.
We rely on the generosity of people like you, who share our heart for a world without trafficking.
100% of your tax-deductible gifts goes to our work in human trafficking hotspots.
Learn more about who we are and what we do.
Learn more about who we are and what we do.
Learn more about who we are and what we do.
In 2021, our Field Partner rescued or intercepted 3660 people from human trafficking. Their border monitoring stations intercept an average of 12 people every day. Since 2006, the total number of lives saved is well in excess of 50,000.
Your gift will help to free, restore, educate, and empower people against trafficking.
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Our Field Partners are the experts on their community’s needs, and the directors of their own holistic projects. They determine what projects are needed by their community, source local resources and specialists for the work, and oversee each step in the implementation process.
Our role, with your support, is to build our Field Partners’ capacity and impact. Your tax-deductible gifts are critical to making this possible.
Find out how our Field Partners are selected.
All stories of safe haven women are shared with permission. We acknowledge the difficult line we walk in sharing these stories—we would never want to contribute to the ongoing trauma of any victim of human trafficking, nor be exploitative in any way. This is a responsibility we feel deeply, and we commit to being open to learn and make changes when needed.
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For outreach and impact to continue to grow, larger and more sustainable facilities are essential.
Here’s why:
- The existing facilities are rented spaces—and rental costs are increasing each year. This has become an unsustainable financial drain for our Field Partner, and significantly capped their growth and outreach. Your support will enable our Field Partner to become self-sufficient, directing future funds into growing their programs for women and at-risk children.
- The existing facilities have reached maximum capacity. The 3 Angels School, which opened in 2011 with just a handful of children, is now at bursting point. Your support will allow a larger, self-funding school to be constructed, as well as a new women’s safe haven, vulnerable children’s homes, a community medical centre and vocational training facilities.
- As services expand, better security and operational facilities are crucial. The Pokhara Project will centralise our Field Partner’s work within one sustainable site. This will not only enable more efficient day-to-day operations, it will also provide a more safe and secure environment for all the women and at-risk children that participate in the full breadth of 3 Angels Nepal’s programs.
Read more about the Pokhara Project or make a tax-deductible gift.
Read more about The Pokhara Project or make a tax-deductible gift.
It is always our intention to represent our international development work as accurately as possible. The information shared above is based on the building plans currently in motion, which have been designed based on the ages and needs of the children currently cared for by 3 Angels Nepal. However, once construction is complete, details such as the age of the children living in each home, or the number or pairings of each specific home within the one building, may change. Any alterations would take place at our Field Partner’s discretion and would be based on the number of children requiring support within each age group. It will also take into consideration the best use of the new facilities and space.
Read more about The Pokhara Project or make a tax-deductible gift.
Find out how our Field Partners are selected.
Find out how our Field Partners are selected.
The Issue
Women, men, and children can all become victims of human trafficking. Human traffickers typically use deception, abduction, fraud, or force to ensnare their victims—and violence or blackmail to prevent their escape. People living in poverty are especially susceptible to these tactics, lured by false promises of education or employment, and the desperate hope of a better life.
Human trafficking is a global crime, and yet it happens in every region of the world. Our current work focuses on the region of Pokhara, Nepal. The open border between Nepal and India means that more people are being trafficked out of Pokhara than ever before. Our Field Partner, 3 Angels Nepal, is working on the frontlines of this trafficking hotspot.
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Sources: United Nations, 2021; 3 Angels Nepal, 2021
Poverty robs people of hope and options, making them more susceptible to human traffickers’ false promises of education, employment, and a better life. Out of desperation, a parent might consider the unthinkable—such as selling a child into marriage. A teenager might agree to travel far away for work—only to find themselves receiving little or no pay, isolated from family support. Poverty can even drive a person to become a human trafficker themselves.
Our Field Partner, 3 Angels Nepal, works with vulnerable children, women, and men in the trafficking hotspot of Pokhara, near Nepal’s open border with India. You can support their life-changing work by giving to The Pokhara Project, brand-new facilities dedicated to freeing, restoring, educating, and empowering people against trafficking.
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Sources: United Nations, 2021; The Borgen Project, 2015; 3 Angels Nepal, 2021
Human traffickers often use false promises of education, work or marriage to lure their victims away from their support networks and into a life of bondage.
The hope of a better life is a strong motivator—and poverty can make people highly susceptible to traffickers’ tricks and schemes. The trafficker might even be someone the victim knows and trusts, like a romantic partner or family member. Abduction, fraud, blackmail and force are also commonly used to ensnare victims.
Your support of Give Freedom International equips our Field Partners to prevent trafficking and rescue survivors. This includes providing trafficking education to at-risk women and children, so they know the warning signs before it’s too late.
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Sources: United Nations, 2021; The Borgen Project, 2015
Our Field Partner, 3 Angels Nepal, is working on the frontlines in Pokhara—one of the country’s notorious trafficking hotspots. Between 2006 and 2020, they helped more than 50,000 people escape trafficking and access education and services such as counselling to rebuild their lives.
Your support of The Pokhara Project will help 3 Angels Nepal expand and grow their work even further over the coming years—and give freedom to many more vulnerable women and children.
Learn more about The Pokhara Project.
The country-wide death toll is approaching 11,000, and total new cases for the past week exceeded 17,000. Community transmission is occurring across all seven provinces, with numbers highest in the provinces of Bagmati and Lumbini. Though Nepal’s COVID-19 vaccination roll-out began in January 2021, the process was delayed when India stopped exporting vaccines in March to focus on their own deadly wave. Almost 16% of the population has now received their first dose, and almost 12% have received the full dose.
Our Field Partner, 3 Angels Nepal, is doing their best to navigate this crisis day by day. The generosity of supporters like you during the 2020 Christmas COVID-19 relief appeal has allowed for additional resources to be on hand to assist with emergency support.
This pandemic has highlighted the importance of getting 3 Angels Nepal into their new home as soon as possible. They would have been significantly safer in their new, secure facilities—and would have been able to facilitate lockdown much more easily across all of their programs in a centralised location—not to mention they would have their community medical facilities up and running (see The Pokhara Project for more information about the full building project).
We are moving forward with these building plans as we are committed to the long-term sustainability and self-sufficiency for our friends and Field Partners, 3 Angels Nepal.
Sources: WHO Situation Update #70, 16 August 2021; Government of Nepal Ministry of Health and Population Sector Response Update, 26 August 2021.
Give Freedom is committed to raising awareness of human trafficking as a global problem, and to partnering with established organisations working on the frontlines to end human trafficking in their communities. Our development model is to work with one Field Partner at a time, on one project at a time, until they reach self-sufficiency. Right now, we are working with 3 Angels Nepal in the trafficking hotspot of Pokhara, Nepal.
Learn more about The Pokhara Project.
Source: Australian Federal Police, 2021
Your Support
Learn more about our 100% Giving Model.
This 100% Giving Model is made possible by the Give Freedom Foundation, an incredible group of private partners who cover all of Give Freedom International’s fundraising and administrative costs—everything from credit card processing fees to website hosting costs. This means that every dollar you give is freed up for program activities that directly support women and children at risk of trafficking. Australian donations are also fully tax-deductible.
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Foundation members’ seed funding started our charity, and continues as a crucial investment in our future, enabling our capacity and impact to grow year on year. Every $1 invested in freedom can yield between $2-$8 in economic returns through fundraising and business initiatives—more than double the impact!
Find out more about the Give Freedom Foundation and how to join.
Foundation members have a deep desire to see trafficking eradicated from our world. They invest tax-deductible seed funding over multiple years to accelerate organisational growth, build strategic capacity and enable greater support for women and children living in trafficking hotspots.
If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you! Simply provide your details and one of our partnership managers will be in touch with more information soon.
You can also contact us directly on 1300 081 190 or partners@givefreedom.org.au
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