Episode Details

Dr. Sandie Morgan and Amy Rahe, Freedom Fund Director of North America, discuss the global anti-slavery organization Freedom Fund and their role in anti-human trafficking. They speak on the importance of organizations being survivor-informed and what that looks like in practice.

Amy Rahe

Amy Rahe is a leading voice on the need for survivors to be included in more meaningful ways within the anti-slavery movement through avenues such as employment and leadership. She joined the Freedom Fund in 2020 as Director of North America, managing major partnerships and engagements, and is active as part of the global management team.  Amy is a passionate advocate for sustained liberation pointing to the need for long-term support to survivors and working to dismantle the root causes that allow modern-day slavery to flourish. She describes herself as a storyteller, catalyst, and connection maker.

Key Points

• The Freedom Fund is a global anti-slavery organization, that identifies and invests in the most impactful frontline organizations in areas with the highest prevalence of exploitation (both sex and labor trafficking).

• The Freedom Fund invests in these organizations with funding from donors interested in directly supporting communities most impacted by modern slavery and with support in scaling these organizations and networking with one another to have an even deeper impact.

• Being survivor-informed means being survivor-led. We need to make room for survivors in the fight against human trafficking.

• A survivor may have many opportunities to better themselves; however, if we do not provide access, they are still going to be stuck in the same place.

• Survivors are very much capable of leading and working in the anti-trafficking space, we just need to provide them access to the opportunities.

Resources

• Freedom Fund

• The Praxis Project

• Amy Rahe’s Journey to the Freedom Fund

• “Girls Like Us” by Rachel Lloyd

• Survivor Alliance

• Survivor Alliance Allies Training

• Survivor Alliance list of Ally Actions

• Survivor Engagement Resources

• How to Ensure Survivors of Modern Slavery Stay Free by Amy Rahe

• Unlocking what works: How community-based interventions are ending bonded labor in India by Freedom Fund

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