Real freedom means release from the debt that binds a family to a kiln, sometimes for generations. It isn't a metaphor — it's an actual sum of money a family owes the kiln owner, passed down and added to until working it off becomes impossible. Settling that debt is what makes everything else — school, work, a home of their own — possible in the first place.
Ten families are currently identified, documented, and waiting on exactly that. Here's what it takes to buy out their debt and set them free.
Ten families — 31 children among them — are currently identified, documented, and waiting to be freed from the debt that binds them to a kiln. The Slavery Freedom Fund buys out each family's debt in full, covers the legal paperwork that makes their release official, and helps them resettle once they're free.
Every family's debt is individually documented and verified before a dollar moves — here's what the total is built from.
About $1,146 is what it costs, on average, to free one family — parents and children together — from the debt that binds them to a kiln.
Every gift moves us closer to buying out all ten families still waiting on their freedom.
