Free for Life International

Outreach and Awareness: Free for Life equips and strengthens communities through education and outreach. Our goal is to create concerned citizens who observe and respond to potential trafficking situations around them. We focus this program in the Middle Tennessee area. In this fiscal year, 96,884 people were educated to be concerned citizens, through a variety if educational platforms. In addition to general outreach and awareness, Free for Life prevents human trafficking through a unique curriculum that empowers at-risk youth across languages and cultures -- the materials teach healthy boundaries, safe support networks, and how to Prevent,Identify, and Respond to trafficking dangers. The Prevention Curriculum has been implemented in Latin America in Guatemala, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, training a total of 1,216 orphans and foster care practitioners, educators and government officials.

Survivor Scholarship and Mentor Program: Free for Life provides one of the only survivor-focused scholarship programs in the country, and works to reduce barriers to higher education and vocational training.Through this program, FFLI walks hand-in-hand with survivors as they achieve their educational dreams. The scholarships are flexible and renewable, and awards can be used for any higher education or vocational training program of a survivor's choice, from welding to cyber-technology. Last year, FFLI introduced a mentorship component of the survivor scholarship.Recipients are paired with qualified mentors who provide academic and professional guidance. We want every recipient to have a sold foundation as they transition into their desired career field. 50 scholarships were awarded from the 2021-22 fiscal year, with recipients located in: Texas, Oklahoma, Maine, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Washington, and Ohio, spanning 23 different areas of study.

Border Monitoring and Rescue: Free for Life's cornerstone rescue program is border monitoring, located in Panitanki, India, the border between India and Nepal. Through this highly effective and ethical method, we have rescued 3,494 women and children since the inception of the program just over ten years ago. In this fiscal year we rescued 1,081 girls, women, and boys. In 2020, FFLI expanded our rescue program to include transit monitoring, which specially focuses on rescuing boys from forced labor trafficking outside of New Delhi.