We educate and raise awareness of the 27 million people who are being held in slavery around the world today. Yes, slavery still exists. These are real people whose lives have been shattered by this travesty.
We support organizations that are rescuing and restoring the lives of those destroyed by human trafficking.
News A BIG thank you to all who ate at Carino's for our "Dine out for Freedom" fundraiser event, January 14, 2010. Carino's took in $1,000 and they gave Free at Last a check for $200. Thank you Carino's!
One hundred percent was sent to: The Garden of Hope in Thailand
The Garden of Hope is community that protects vulnerable and at-risk children and women from abuse and exploitation in Southeast Asia and equips and enables them to develop maturity and responsibility, bearing fruit for the glory of God. Please visit them online and see the incredible heart they have for trafficked victims. www.thegardenofhope.org
The Pampered Chef Fundraiser is complete It was a great success! We sold $1,200 in products and raised $400 for NightLight! www.nightlightinternational.com
NightLight is an international organization committed to addressing the complex issues surrounding trafficking and prostitution by catalyzing individual and community transformation. NightLight’s vision is to offer intervention to sexually exploited women and children, to enable them to discover their dignity, and to provide a program of holistic transformation, empowering them to live and work in their community. NightLight’s mission is to build relationships and provide hope,intervention, rescue and assistance to women and children exploited in the sex industry by offering alternative employment, vocational opportunities, life-skills training and physical, emotional and spiritual development to women seeking freedom. NightLight builds support networks internationally to intervene and assist women, men and children whose lives are negatively impacted by the sex industry. In Bangkok, Nightlight operates as a business (NightLight Design, Co. Ltd) and a non-profit (NightLight Foundation). In the United States, NightLight operates as a 501c3 with branches in Los Angeles and Atlanta
On July 31, 2009, Free at Last raised $18,540.00 through a golf tournament, Banquet and Auction entitled "Tee It Up to Drive Out Human Trafficking." Please see our sponsor page for all our generous sponsors All money raised was given to the International Justice Mission. IJM is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems.
To learn more go to www.ijm.org The need for restoration is great.
Donate By Mail: Free at Last Ministries 133 State St. #133 Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284
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*Free at Last Ministries does not have paid staff. We are all volunteers. We do not have an office and overhead expenses. We do our best to get everything donated so that 100% of your donation can go to the aftercare of victims.