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In addition to supporting survivors by buying their products, we need donations to run our programs. Every dollar donated to this campaign will go directly to programs for survivors, helping women and children get free and remain free from slavery with education and empowerment programs.

Not only will all your donations go to programs (our overhead is funded separately) but we are committed to stretching every dollar of impact from your donations.  We keep our staff small, don't waste money on anything fancy, recycle every box, and keep overhead costs and salaries to an absolute minimum. We are committed to using every penny to preventing slavery and helping survivors.

 Our Current Funding Priorities:

Free Forever Campaign  Beginning in fall 2011, we are building a shelter home and production facility in Darjeeling, India to house 125 survivors and train up to 200 a year.  We are partnering with Womens Interlink Foundation on this initiative, and hope to raise 30,000 by the end of 2011, so that construction can begin in the New Year.  (as of Dec. 14, we are halfway to this goal!)  Darjeeling is a major source region for human trafficking victims due to poverty, the closing of many tea gardens which provided jobs in the region, and proximity to the borders of Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Tibet.

Survivor Training and Employment.  Support or training and jobs programs, especially our jewelry program that provides tools, six months of metalsmith training and full employment in a high value profession for the survivors.  You can follow the development of this program and hear from the trainers and the survivors in our blog From Dust To Dazzle.

Gift Of Education.   School sponsorship costs $360 a year, which can be paid monthly or annually, and you can learn more about it here.  We currently have 25 kids in urgent need of sponsors, and would like to expand the program to offer education to many more kids (200 are currently in our education program). In our experience, education through 10th grade practically guarantees that a child will not be trafficked or re-trafficked.

How to Made a Tax Deductible Donation:

 You can earmark your donations for one of our three priority programs, or make a general donation to all our programs.  We are a 501 (c) 3 charity, and donations are exempt from US taxes.  If you dont want the tax deduction, you can ask to keep your donation anonymous if you like, but you can rest assured we never share or disclose donor information.

Donate by Check: Write on the check if you want to specify what program to fund.  You can send a check to TEN Charities PO BOX 3403, St. Augustine, FL  32084

Donate by Credit Card: You can also click on the button below to make an immediate donation.

You will have the option to specify the priority you want to fund when you enter your donation info online.  The donation will be in our legal name, TEN Charities.  Made by Survivors is a social enterprise which is a wholly owned subsidiary of TEN Charities, a federal tax exempt charity.

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