Modern Slavery

Today you can help protect people from trafficking and exploitation

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Recent facts of impact

1,000+
1,000+ people have attended community-based awareness events in the Solomon Islands
4,763
4,763 people have benefitted from our partner’s work in Nuwakot District, an area with one of the highest trafficking rates in Nepal
884
884 survivors have been removed from harm in Thailand by our partner, who has also been involved in the conviction of 199 offenders.
12
12 communities in Fiji have developed a Community Action Plan/safety net.
786
786 people in Myanmar attended training to learn more about trafficking and how to stay safe


Tackling Modern Slavery

Today, more people are trapped in modern slavery than ever before - and nearly 60% are in our Asia-Pacific neighbourhood.

Tearfund supporters like you are taking a stand against this abuse and injustice. Together we are working with our partners (like the one in this video) to prevent human trafficking and support the prosecution of traffickers. In 2025, we stood alongside 28,857 people across five countries, helping them build the awareness and resilience needed to protect themselves from exploitation. With your support, we can extend this vital work even further reaching thousands more people living in poverty who are vulnerable to exploitation, abuse, and trafficking.

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Proclaim freedom to the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.

Isaiah 61:1
I’ll help people at risk

 

A multi-level response

Communities understand their own challenges better than anyone. That’s why, with our donors, we resource our local partners to develop culturally sustainable solutions to tackling human trafficking threats in their communities.

Our experienced partners on the ground take a comprehensive approach built on the 5 P's:

Reducing vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation by addressing the root causes. This includes awareness-raising and community mobilisation, increasing income generation and education opportunities and supporting women's empowerment initiatives.

Investigating both domestic and cross-border cases of trafficking and exploitation; facilitating the rescue of victims; and prosecuting perpetrators through strengthening judicial and financial systems and holding these to account.

Providing trauma-informed aftercare services for survivors of trafficking and exploitation for recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration into the community.

Supporting research, policy development and advocacy to strengthen institutions and policy mechanisms to deliver justice and protect victims.

Supporting inter-agency collaboration and strong partnerships to resist the co-ordinated networks of traffickers.


A multi-country response

The impact of Tearfund’s modern slavery work reaches deep and wide. Our partners are supporting vulnerable people living in low-income communities across five nations (Fiji, Solomon Islands, Myanmar, Thailand and Nepal).

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Meet our partner in Fij

Our partner in Fiji is Homes of Hope, a Christian organisation walking alongside women and children recovering from forced sexual exploitation. 80% of survivors they work with report a positive change as they rebuild their lives. Learn more in the short video below.

At a systemic level, Homes of Hope sits on Fiji’s government steering group, where they advise on combating trafficking, and provide trafficking awareness training.

Homes of Hope created the highly successful Thumbs Up! child safeguarding curriculum, recognised by the Fiji government and rolled out to 361 schoolteachers. Thumbs Up! is now being implemented by our modern slavery partner in the Solomons Islands

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I gained profound awareness and knowledge. I learned where to seek help and report incidents of violence against women, as well as the necessary procedures for seeking justice.

Sarita, Nepal

   

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New Zealand business sees the impact in Nepal

When women’s fashion brand Flo & Frankie launched, they created a philanthropy label, Flo Gives Back. Inspired by the transformation they saw while visiting our modern slavery work in Nepal, they chose to support our partner Share and Care.

Flo recalls:
“The difference was incredible! The women that we met were just so confident and outgoing; passionate really. They are trained and coached in how to start a business and use the funds, and how to be empowered against trafficking. I could really see how the work with these villages is life changing.”

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Ever since Tearfund’s partner, Hope Trust, brought the programme into the community on human trafficking and sexual exploitation, I’ve seen a gradual decrease in these issues.

Reverend Dudley Qeto, Solomon Islands

SAFE: A powerful combination

The SAFE programme combines our modern slavery work with farming and enterprise initiatives, giving vulnerable communities sustainable future options free from exploitation in Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Myanmar.

The New Zealand Government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has been so impressed with the measurable, life-changing impact of our SAFE programme that they are matching every donation sent by Kiwis.

Every $1 we can send to these SAFE projects will be matched with $2 by MFAT, vastly increasing what we can accomplish.

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With your support today, Tearfund's Modern Slavery programme will help rewrite stories of exploitation into stories of freedom.

Together we’re standing strong against modern slavery by tackling human trafficking and empowering women and children to building new futures of dignity, safety, and opportunity.

 

A chain has been unlocked from my ankle - I am now free!

Survivor, Thailand


 

Tackling Modern Slavery

Today you can help protect people from trafficking and exploitation

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