About Riding for Freedom from Modern Slavery
Through this cycling fundraising event you can free vulnerable people including women and children and give them a voice. Supporting this event will have an extraordinary impact, empowering women and children in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, to live with dignity.
Tearfund's Modern Slavery work means that you will be able to help prevent trafficking, through providing their partners with the necessary funds to deliver holistic support to communities.
Tearfund's partner in Fiji focuses on equipping women and survivors with practical skills to secure safe and sustainable work. Over 60 live-in residents within the programme receive practical skills which they could use to seek a vocation.
In Thailand, Tearfund's partner has gained traction on shared cases with government organisations and agencies, strengthening collaborative efforts to increase deterrence of trafficking at a systemic level. Tailoring anti-trafficking programmes and advocacy efforts to align with cultural values, beliefs and behaviour is an approach also being modelled across Tearfund's work.
Currently Tearfund's SAFE (Modern Slavery) programme benefits 20,000 people, and indirectly impacts more than 81,000. Tearfund is weaving together their Modern Slavery and Farming & Enterprise initiatives to build safe, aware, free and empowered communities through our partners in Sri Lanka, Vanuatu, Fiji and Solomon Islands.
You can find out more about this work at www.tearfund.org.nz
Leaderboard
The Event
Your cycle event begins in Wellington and winds its way to Palmerston
North. You then need to organise transport back to Wellington.
Saturday November 4th, 2023.
