Hotspot start date: January 2015
In Thailand, with the civil society component of the hotspot program, the Freedom Fund is providing support to frontline organisations across a number of fishing and processing sites as well as two border crossing areas between Myanmar and Thailand.
The partnership will implement a number of interventions aimed at equipping migrant communities with the tools and knowledge necessary to spot and report forced labour and trafficking, monitor working conditions at the workplace, and also seek compensation and redress when exploitation has taken place.
The private sector, authorities and the general public will also be engaged in the hotspot activities.
Read the Thailand Hotspot 2021 Annual Report.
Our impact as of end-2022
Metric |
Total |
Lives impactedNumber of active, regular participants of programs supported by the Freedom Fund. Includes members of community vigilance committees, self-help groups, individuals rescued from slavery, and those given educational, psychosocial or income generation services. Excludes those provided with one-time information. |
85,728 |
Total investedTotal funds invested in hotspot programs since the Freedom Fund’s inception. |
$14.4m |
Cost per personAverage cost of community interventions per active, regular participant. Excludes grants made to partners working indirectly, e.g. at international policy level or for research and evaluation purposes. Excludes grants made for research and evaluation purposes. |
$52 |
Victims liberatedNumber of people liberated from any form of slavery, be it through gradual change of circumstance or shorter “rescue event”. The Freedom Fund’s approach is to only support liberations where services for survivor recovery are provided. We formalised this policy with partners in July 2016. Prior to this date a small proportion of reported liberations may not have included follow-up support. Survivor recovery services are provided (by Freedom Fund partner or other agency) to ensure the individual can resettle with their family or independently, and can access socio-economic and legal assistance to ensure their freedom can be sustained. |
786 |
Community freedom groups supportedNumber of active, local groups, including community vigilance committees and self-help savings and loans groups, formed or supported by Freedom Fund partners. |
201 |
Micro-enterprises startedNumber of slavery survivors or highly vulnerable individuals who have started micro-enterprises or gained a new form of income as a result of Freedom Fund support. |
2 |
Individuals accessing social & legal servicesNumber of individuals provided with social and legal services by Freedom Fund partners. These services help slavery survivors recover from mental trauma as well as provide at-risk individuals with legal protection and options for recourse. |
55,949 |
Individuals with new access to gov't servicesNumber of people supported by our partners who gain new access to government entitlements such as employment rights, school places, pensions, compensation payments, ID cards, and land rights. |
1,382 |
Legal cases assistedNumber of individual legal cases that our partners provide any kind of support to, including advice, testimony, direct litigation, and witness protection. |
1,409 |
ConvictionsNumber of convictions of traffickers and slaveholders in which one or more Freedom Fund partners played a role |
18 |
Changes in public policyNumber of changes to public policy attributable in part to Freedom Fund partners. |
31 |
Media storiesNumber of media stories about slavery and trafficking that can be attributed to the Freedom Fund or its partners’ efforts to generate attention to the issue. |
522 |
Environmental Justice Foundation
Foundation for Education and Development (FED)
Fishwise
Human Rights and Development Foundation
Human Rights Watch
International Labor Rights Forum
Issara Institute
Labour Rights Promotion Network Foundation
MAP Foundation
Migrant Workers Rights Network
Raks Thai Foundation (capacity building)
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Social Responsibility Law Office (capacity building)
Stella Maris Seafarers’ Center
Verite