Harvard for Free the Slave is currently a student-run organization that has three main objectives, 1) to raise awareness within both the Harvard and Boston-area community through the dispersion of information and positive action, 2) to raise funds for grassroots organizations worldwide that help liberate and rehabilitate former slaves in order to help create healthy, sustainable lives, and 3) to generate a student-driven initiative to bridge the community of knowledge and the community of practice. We work in partnership with the national organization of Free the Slaves, which is a national charity established by Professor Kevin Bales, who is one of the foremost modern-day abolitionists today. To learn more about slavery, the anti-slavery movement, Free the Slaves, and Kevin Bales please refer to: http://www.freetheslaves.net/.
We work with in partnership with a new task force in the Boston-area called Human Trafficking Students (HTS). Human Trafficking Students is a consortium of several Boston-area universities and high schools that are dedicated to the mission of eradicating modern-day slavery through the activities of raising awareness, promoting student engagement and activism, and most significantly, social networking between college universities, high schools, NGOs, and businesses. HTS aim to bridge the community of knowledge with the community of practice through its social networking approach. For more information about HTS, please click on the following link: http://www.humantraffickingstudents.webs.com/.
We also work in partnership with many other human rights programs on Harvard campus, which include many of the faith-based organizations at Harvard, mainly Harvard Catholic Student Association and Harvard Hillel, and members of the wider university, such as the Harvard College Advocates for Human Rights, Act on a Dream, the Carr Center of Human Rights at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and The Committee of Human Rights Studies of Harvard Law School. In time, we hope to network with more student groups on campus in order to specialize our focus on specific regions of the world, where slavery is more prevalent. In addition, we hope to expand our network to not only to other Boston-area collegiate institutions, but eventually, also to other out-of-state colleges and universities to strengthen the national student anti-trafficking contingent.