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Imagine…

“I was working for about 17 hours each day. I had to work for several months without pay, and I had no way of communicating with my parents.” Sophia, 16, exploited whilst working in a private home in Tanzania.

Imagine yourself in stifling heat, with no shade from the sun, dust in your eyes and blocking your throat, your hands blistered from moulding bricks for hours every day. Now imagine you are only 8 years old. This is the reality for children working in India’s brick kilns.

Or imagine having to leave your parents home as a child, like Sophia, and work in someone else’s home all day long, isolated from an outside world, exploited and abused. This is the reality for children forced to work as domestic workers in Tanzania.

Or imagine, if you can, being kept in isolation and forced to have sex with strangers. This is the reality for children trafficked into sex work in Nepal.

Or imagine growing up in a place where your family and your whole community are treated as slaves by traditional masters. This is the reality for children from communities of slave descent in Niger.

It is very difficult to imagine ourselves in situations like this – but it is easy to do something to help. You can help a child in slavery by donating today.

10 million children with no freedom

Slavery is a daily reality for estimated 10 million children around the world. Everything we take for granted is impossible if you are a child in slavery. You cannot go to school, or go out and play with your friends, and you cannot dream of a better future.

You can help give a child a different future by donating £6.50 today.

Anti-Slavery runs projects helping children in slavery in 11 countries around the world.

• In India, where entire families are trapped in debt by brick kiln owners who refuse to pay them, we are helping workers claim their salaries, leave the brick kilns and ensure their children go to school.
• In Tanzania, we help children in domestic work leave abusive employers, and support them to build confidence and skills to rebuild their lives away from domestic work.
• In Nepal, where there is little support for survivors of sex-trafficking, we are training former victims to become paralegals, so they can work with the police and help children sold into sex work receive the treatment and care they need.
• In Niger, where whole communities have been treated as slaves for generations, we run schools to give children an education and the chance of a better, independent future.

Please donate today and help us bring more children out of slavery.