Protect a child from slavery

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 while working in a private home in Tanzania.

Imagine leaving your family home, like Sophia did, to travel to another city and stay in a stranger’s home to work all day. Imagine you were kept isolated from the outside world, exploited and abused. This is the reality for children forced into domestic work 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 molding 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, if you can, 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.

What we take for granted

Slavery is a daily reality for 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 10 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 follow their own ambitions in life.
• 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 give children a better future.