Its not too Late to Sign up for an Aruna Run
An Aruna Run is a 5k run/walk created by the Aruna Project. By participating in an Aruna Run, you can raise funds and secure freedom for a specific woman trapped in modern day slavery.
The Evangelical Covenant Church
http://www.covchurch.org/trafficking/Volunteer Opportunities: Yes
History
The Evangelical Covenant Church is a rapidly growing multiethnic denomination in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world. Founded in 1885 by Swedish immigrants, the ECC values the Bible as the word of God, the gift of God’s grace and ever-deepening spiritual life that comes through a faith with Jesus Christ, the importance of extending God’s love and compassion to a hurting world and the strength that comes from unity within diversity.
Mission
To prevent human trafficking through our Break the Chains initiative
- Contact Information:
- 8303 West Higgins Road
- Chicago, Illinois 60631
- United States
- Active In: United States
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness
- Forms of Slavery:
- Domestic Servitude, Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor, Bonded Labor, Child Labor, Forced Marriage
- Tel: +1 (0) 773 784-3000
- Email: wmc@covchurch.org
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In Search of Freedomville
In a tiny speck of a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a community of rock quarry miners have given their cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. The miners named their village in 2000, only a few months after they staged a slave revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who had held their families in slavery in rock quarries for generations. If you search for Azad Nagar on a map, you won’t find it. To everyone else, it’s called Sonbarsa. Located in the poorest province in one of the poorest countries in the world, Sonbarsa is a barren, rocky, plot of land in the middle of one of the most densely populated states in the world.