Choose Freedom: Protect Children Now
Will you join the Freedom Partner movement to protect children now?
Join the movement as a monthly giver (Freedom Partner) and help protect children from ever experiencing violence.
Together, we can protect children from experiencing the abuse that Nway did.
Orphaned and living on the streets, eight-year-old Nway had no one to protect her from traffickers.
Nway was locked in a compound and forced to work as a maid. She was overworked, starved and brutally abused.
"I remember how painful it was being beaten and humiliated repeatedly. They took off my clothes while they punished me. I still have the scars.”
Will you join the movement to protect children like Nway?
Become a Freedom Partner now
Children are twice as likely to face violence during trafficking than adults.
Nway experienced shocking violence, including being beaten with a golf club and burned with boiling water.
As a Freedom Partner, your monthly gifts will help IJM and police bring children to safety and support them to heal and obtain justice.
You’ll also help IJM train and fund partners around the world – scaling this work faster and reaching more children.
Thanks to the support of Freedom Partners, Nway is no longer alone.
When Nway managed to escape, IJM and partners immediately stepped in – placing her in an IJM-funded shelter where she could receive the care she urgently needed.
With the support of IJM's legal team and partners, the trafficker was sentenced to 10 years in prison - protecting more children.
Today, inspired by her time learning dressmaking at the shelter, Nway wants to become a successful dressmaker.
Comfort from the BBC's Great British Sewing Bee is part of the movement protecting children like Nway
A dressmaker and passionate champion of women and girls, Comfort was deeply moved when she heard Nway's story.
She decided to help Nway in her journey to becoming a dressmaker by sending her a sewing pattern and a personal video message!
Nway is on her way to fulfilling her dressmaking dreams, thanks to the support of people like Comfort and Freedom Partners.
Currently we can't reach every child. We want to make sure children aren't left behind.
Join the movement to protect children as a Freedom Partner now.
Plus, as an IJM Freedom Partner, you’ll receive exclusive updates and event invitations.
Here’s how your regular gift could help each month:
£19 a month could help children like Nway heal with group trauma counselling
£48 a month could help IJM and police bring children like Nway to safety
£76 a month could help a child like Nway heal with trauma-informed therapy
Will you join the movement today?
Adom in Edinburgh, Freedom Partner for 1 year
Reverend Chris in London, Freedom Partner for 5 years
Karen and Billy near Belfast, Freedom Partners for 12 years
"My husband and I have been Freedom Partners for over a decade and have recently doubled our monthly donation. We particularly like IJM's professionalism, persistence and integrity." - Karen
*Pseudonym. To protect survivors, an actor has been used to represent Nway, or her face has been obscured. All images used with consent.