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Freedom Matters
Freedom Matters frees children and vulnerable people in Nepal from the bonds of slavery, stigma and extreme social deprivation. Conducting rescues where necessary, we rehabilitate and restore confidence; we educate and train providing the opportunity to join mainstream society.
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Trafficking in the Nepal headlines
Posted on Wed 19 Jun 2013
Last week The Himalayan Times announced the rescue of 47 boys from an embroidery factory in Kathmandu. But what was the full story?
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Dolly's new act!
Posted on Tue 18 Jun 2013
Visitors to our "Sapana" social circus happened to be on hand to film a first for Dolly!
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Child slavery in Nepal
Posted on Sun 16 Jun 2013
An estimated 25,000 children are domestic slaves in Nepal. Underneath this staggering statistic there are many accounts of personal tragedy.
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Trafficking TO Nepal
Posted on Fri 14 Jun 2013
Yesterday our Nepal team was involved in dealing with a case of trafficking TO Nepal, something that I haven't personally come across before.
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Circus outreach in Pokhara
Posted on Tue 11 Jun 2013
At the end of May our circus group held their first outreach performance in Pokhara...
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The Butwal mosaic project on film
Posted on Tue 4 Jun 2013
Artist volunteer Duncan Ross describes his involvement in the Butwal mosaic art project.
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Former Nepali street kids describe how our social circus programme has changed their lives
Posted on Fri 24 May 2013
Rajan and Bijay are two of the stars of the show in Kathmandu. Here are their uplifting stories.
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Nepali trafficking victims free
Posted on Thu 23 May 2013
Rescued trafficked Nepali women happy to be free.
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Circus Kathmandu performs "Swagatam"
Posted on Wed 22 May 2013
A promotional video of Circus Kathmandu performing their hit show "Swagatam".
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Circus Kathmandu attends British School Kathmandu fundraiser
Posted on Mon 20 May 2013
On Friday evening Circus Kathmandu performed at the opening of a photography exhibition in Kathmandu, a fundraising initiative by The British Schoo...
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Two Nepali girls rescued from Indian circus
Posted on Mon 20 May 2013
It's taken two years for us to overcome Indian bureaucracy and bring two circus trafficking victims back to Nepal.
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A report on our Nepal mosaic project in today's Nepali Times
Posted on Fri 17 May 2013
The weekly highly-regarded Nepali Times has published a very good report on our Nepal mosaic project, conducted in the midst of a trafficking hotspot.
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Trafficking in Nepal in today's Guardian
Posted on Fri 10 May 2013
Today's UK's Guardian has reviewed the challenge of trafficking in Nepal
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New website, new run!
Posted on Thu 9 May 2013
This week Freedom Matters has launched both its new website and a new UK run that's sure to be a winner!
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More pictures from the Butwal mosaic project
Posted on Sun 5 May 2013
As the Butwal slum school mosaic mural approaches completion I have just now added some fabulous new pictures to the CONTINUE READING
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A missing kilometre - The Freedom Run
Posted on Sat 4 May 2013
Um. I have now walked the route of The Freedom Run twice and I seem to be struggling with accurately recording the distance.
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A volunteer silversmith in Nepal
Posted on Fri 3 May 2013
Volunteer Jane Tadrist is coming towards the end of her assignment in support of Freedom Matters art projects in Nepal.
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Ten minutes with the Guardian
Posted on Fri 26 Apr 2013
See my interview with The Guardian in the UK
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The Freedom Run - 15th September 2013
Posted on Fri 26 Apr 2013
This morning, GPS in hand, I walked the route of the inaugural "Freedom Run" that Freedom Matters will hold on the 15th September this year.
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Nepal School Mosaic Project Update
Posted on Thu 25 Apr 2013
Pictures are still coming in from the installation of the mosaic mural at the slum school in Butwal, south Nepal.
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Trafficking in Nepal in an artistic nutshell
Posted on Tue 23 Apr 2013
In an earlier post I described the work of graphic journalist Dan Archer who has recently been documenting our circus project in comic format.
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AT LAST - THE BUTWAL SLUM SCHOOL MOSAIC TAKES SHAPE!
Posted on Mon 22 Apr 2013
A year and a half ago while I was still living and working in Nepal I tasked our then volunteer artist-in-residence, Duncan Ross, with designing a ...
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Working with trafficking survivors - mosaics in hetauda
Posted on Sun 21 Apr 2013
This evening I caught up with Lynne Rawling's wonderful account of her time as a volunteer in Hetauda working with trafficking survivors as they be...
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Tess in Nepal
Posted on Sat 20 Apr 2013
New Zealand aerialist Tess Munro Pedreros (right of photo) has just completed a three month volunteer assignment working with our circus project in...
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Hetauda remembered
Posted on Fri 12 Apr 2013
We've had a busy couple of weeks in taking on some of the behind the scenes tasks that the charity needs for its daily operation.
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mrs mitchard's mosaic completed in Nepal
Posted on Tue 9 Apr 2013
In February I blogged about the forthcoming visit of Shirley Rose to Nepal and how she'd ...
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A MOSAIC ARTIST VOLUNTEERS WITH TRAFFICKING SURVIVORS IN NEPAL
Posted on Thu 28 Mar 2013
For the past three weeks Freedom Matters UK volunteer and mosaic artist, Shirley Rose, has been in support of the mosaic workshop in Kathmandu that...
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The UK Border Agency
Posted on Tue 26 Mar 2013
How interesting to read that the UK Border Agency has been recognised today as having been a failed entity by the British Government, being desc...
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How it all Started - Freedom's Cause
Posted on Fri 22 Mar 2013
Here is a film from 12 years ago giving the background to why I changed my life in 1999.
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London Circus Visit Postponed
Posted on Thu 21 Mar 2013
At the end of last week we received the devastating news that our Nepalese circus performers - trafficking survivors - had been refused entry visas...
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Rebecca takes on Aerial Challenge
Posted on Thu 21 Mar 2013
Not literally...
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CIRCUS KATHMANDU IN SWAGATAM
Posted on Wed 20 Mar 2013
I have uploaded the first pictures received from Circus Kathmandu's wonderful production "Swagatam".
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Circus Kathmandu in Swagatam
Posted on Wed 20 Mar 2013
This morning I posted the final group of pictures from last weekend's Circus Kathmandu "Swagatam" performance to Flickr.
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Welcome to Lynne
Posted on Tue 19 Mar 2013
A very warm welcome to Lynne Rawlings who has joined the Freedom Matters UK team .
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"Astounding" Circus
Posted on Sat 16 Mar 2013
Over the past two days our Circus Kathmandu group has been performing at DAV School in Jawalakhel, Kathmandu. Pictures to follow, but just read how...
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Now the new york times!
Posted on Sat 16 Mar 2013
OK, it is a fleeting and indirect one but following today's coverage in The Himalayan Times we seem to have made the pages of CONTINUE READING
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