The Freedom Cafe

Turning Awareness Into Action Since 2015!

This year, we’re celebrating 10 years of raising awareness, funding critical initiatives, and promoting ethical, sustainable consumption—all in the fight to end human trafficking and exploitation.

Join us in celebrating a decade of impact—and help fuel the next one.

Here’s what your support made possible in 2024:

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  Educated 584 frontline workers and leaders through 12 industry-specific prevention programs, equipping them with the tools to identify red flags, establish protective policies, and respond to potential trafficking situations. Notable trainings included:
  

• NH Restaurant & Lodging Association


• Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences


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  A collaboration with the U.S. State Department training human and civil rights leaders from 5 Central African nations
  

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  Fostered conscious consumerism & local engagement by:
  
  
  • Welcoming 6,000+ visitors to The Café
  
  
  • Hosting 63 advocacy and educational events to build awareness and inspire action
  
  
  
  

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  Empowered the next generation of advocates by
  • Training 23 volunteers and 2 university student fellows to lead with compassion and courage
  
  

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  Provide Direct Service Funding Support
  
  
  • Love146 - $400
  
  
  • ChildVoice - $700
  
  
  • Thrive NE - $1100
  
  
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    Brigid's House of Hope - $500.
    
    
  
  
  
  

Help Us Launch the Next Decade - Your donation fuels education, engagement, and citizen-consumer responsibility. Support The Freedom Café’s mission to create an exploitation-free world—one conscious cup at a time.

Your NH Gives Donation will Help The Freedom Cafe:

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  Launch a new location in New Hampshire, multiplying the impact of Freedom Cafe programs!
  
  


• Provide training and awareness events equipping community leaders to address trafficking within their organizations and professions


• Expand outreach in the seacoast NH area by supporting staffing and resources for lectures and programs discussing human trafficking issues


• Enable Freedom Cafe to mentor student fellows each semester who will carry their knowledge about how to address human trafficking into their career fields


• Expand research on human trafficking in the supply chain

The Freedom Café is a non-profit café working to end human trafficking - by providing a space to engage the community in conscious consuming and ways to take personal and professional action toward a traffick-free world.

Human Trafficking targets society’s most vulnerable - particularly young women, children, LGBTQ and impoverished persons. Through force, fraud, or coercion, individuals must perform grueling labor or commercial sex acts with little hope of escape.

Trafficking exists in all 50 United States, and all 10 counties of New Hampshire. The critical work of supporting law enforcement, funding specialized aftercare facilities, investigating and addressing supply chains with exploitative labor, and advocating for survivors cannot be done without basic awareness and community support to address this complex problem.

The Freedom Café is in a strategic position to bring awareness, resources and activism to the region. Through regional, state and national partnerships, including participation in the NH Human Trafficking Collaborative Task Force and the United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN. GIFT), The Freedom Café facilitates connection, consciousness and collaboration to address human trafficking.

Learn more at www.thefreedomcafe.org

Who We Are

The Freedom Cafe of Durham is a non-profit specialty café dedicated to ending human trafficking and the commercial exploitation of all people. The café provides a collaborative space that invites the local community to take action toward a traffick-free world. Through presentations, discussion groups and community events, we seek to educate local citizens about the complexities of the issue and its root causes, the actions necessary for preventing it, and ways to support reputable organizations working to bring about a world where all people are free.