Katie Daehler This summer, we launched a new computer training program for kids growing up in slum communities and red light areas of Kolkata. For most of the children, this is an opportunity to touch a computer for the first time, and they are euphoric every single class. We are offering these classes in collaboration with our … Read more
Baishakhi Gayen, a social worker with HFC, recently completed her Master of Social Work. For her dissertation, she sat down with 30 women in Sonagachi, Kolkata’s largest red-light district, and asked them about their lives: how they arrived, how they are treated, what they fear, how they cope, and what they hope for. Every question … Read more
At the Freedom School in Nuwakot, Nepal, the team has moved from crisis response to a longer term anti-trafficking strategy. In the 3 weeks following the disaster, our staff and teens jumped into action, collecting, packing and distributing truckloads of emergency supplies to two villages devastated by the flood: Dunche, a 12 hour drive from … Read more