Our Partners
The projects highlighted are merely a summary of only a handful of the OM projects The Freedom Challenge is currently supporting.
Mission Trip
PREVENT
We believe the cycles of poverty, exploitation, and oppression can be broken before any life-long damage is done. Education, skills training, and basic support systems empower women to end these cycles. Once these women learn how much God loves them, they just can’t be kept down!
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Traffic Wise
The program educates at-risk communities throughout Africa on knowledge and awareness about trafficking as well as tools to help identify trafficking. Their goal is empower, equip, and mobilize the people in the community to be active in taking preventive measure to protect vulnerable from becoming victims.
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Scholars Program
To break the cycles of poverty and oppression, 120 high-risk scholars are receiving long-term academic scholarships (from elementary to college). During these years scholars are discipled and given access to quality education, where they can become godly leaders and educated change-makers in their communities.
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Mercy House
This day center is located in Mukululu, the largest slum in the country. Approximately 80 children come to the center daily to receive biblical teachings and a meal, often the only meal they will have that day. This center also hosts weekend youth events with games for teenagers, devotions for moms, and now has a rescue safe house available for up to 15 girls escaping extremely abusive situations.
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Children Day Centers and Camps
Approximately 400 vulnerable children attend the day centers daily to receive, warm meals, help with homework, and learn about the Bible. Additionally, each year the OM team in Moldova holds girl and boys summer camps During these camps, children receive social, spiritual, physical, and emotional education, focused on specifically equipping them to be protected from sexual exploitation.
RESCUE
At the point of intervention, women and children are usually without hope. We coordinate rescue efforts for the enslaved and bring these women and children to a safe place for long-term care and healing.
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Hope House
This program works to place girls who have experienced abuse into the loving homes of local OM missionary families so that they experience a caring father figure to help them know healing and love from their Heavenly Father. While living with their OM families, these girls attend the local OM school and skills training programs.
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Anti-Human Trafficking Outreach
A ministry located within multiple European countries that focuses on outreach in brothels. These ministries focus on increasing awareness and providing information that will help women leave a life of exploitation. They also offer needed hygiene products. They boldly proclaim the love of Christ to the vulnerable while also providing awareness-raising programs in regional source countries.
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The Tamar Center
For 21 years, this center has ministered to over 35,000 girls in Pattaya, Thailand. The need to find work in Pattaya and send money home to their families has led to many of these girls into forced prostitution. This outreach center, located in the red-light district, is where the girls are ministered to through weekly outreaches, a hair salon, English classes, and a safe place to which they can escape and be prayed for, receive counseling, and connect them with a church community.
DEVELOP
We provide long-term solutions to help women overcome poverty through things like vocational training and micro-saving programs. These opportunities not only empower women but also make current and future generations less vulnerable to exploitation.
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Threads of Hope
Threads of Hope aims to provide life-changing opportunities through training and employment. Women rescued from trafficking are invited to join a training program; they learn not only sewing but other business skills. After completing the training program, trainees can apply for employment through Threads of Hope, where they can utilize their newly learned skills to create beautifully sewn purses, bags, and home goods.
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Women’s Tailoring and Computer Training
Every year more than 200 young women, who are college-educated, but don’t have access to computers are trained in computer skills. To date, 80% of the women have gone on to find business employment. A second training program provides for approximately 280 uneducated women to be trained annually in tailoring, allowing them to provide for their family’s needs.
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Tabitha Designs
Beginning in 2012 with approximately 10 vulnerable women, this center has expanded to include about 70 women yearly, providing them with the opportunity to learn skills such as tailoring, cooking, beading, knitting, crocheting and literacy. Many of these trained women then go on to train others.
RESTORE
We realize that these victims are often broken. So, we provide extensive care to help them rebuild their lives, including physical and spiritual healing, trauma counseling, and life skills training. Our programs aim to put these individuals on a new path, a path full of hope and dignity.
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Transformational Development Ministries
Project Freedom is a social work project that helps children, women, and families from abusive and/or exploitative backgrounds, who are seeking to break out of the cycle of poverty. Through counseling and education courses, this ministry seeks to empower and facilitate children, adults, and families in changing their own personal circumstances.
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House of Damaris
A safe home for women who have escaped prostitution, House of Damaris offers women a place to stay for the duration of their time in the recovery program, or until they are ready to move out and live independently while attending classes.
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Self-Help Groups
Begun in 2003, these groups are a self-sustaining movement, made up of approximately 18,000 women. They are grounded on the principle that every woman is created in the image of God with gifts and abilities to lead change in their families and communities. These united women are immeasurably strong, have tackled issues such as; child marriage, domestic violence, literacy, public transportation, and clean water.