Google donates £7.5m for global fight against slave labour

Google donates £7.5m for global fight against slave labour

World’s famous search engine, Google, will be donating £7.5m ($11.5m) as a grant to those organizations in India, Europe and US who fight against modern slave labour and its hold on 27
million people worldwide.

The donated money will go to 10 intervention and education organisations tha are working in the above mentioned regions to eradicate slave labour. The technology giant’s donation is so
far expected to be one of the largest corporate initiatives ever to fight slavery.

The renowned search engine said on its charitable website that the £7.5 grant will free more than 12,000 people from modern-day slavery and will prevent millions more from being victimised.

Google has listed 10 recipients of its recent anti-slavery grants, which mainly conduct intervention and education projects in India, Europe and the United States.

The groups include International Justice Mission, BBC World Service Trust, ActionAid India and Aide et Action, which will form a new coalition in India to work with the local governments
to eradicate slave labour.

Google added that the alliance will identify slavery ring masters, document abuse, free individuals and offer them therapy.

The non-profit organisations Slavery Footprint and Polaris Project will also get benefit from the Google grants to help track slavery and educate Americans about the problem.

President and CEO of International Justice Mission, Gary A. Haugen, said, “It’s hard for most Americans to believe that slavery and human trafficking are still massive problems in our
world, but it’s not hard to believe for the more than 27 million men, women and children held in slavery today.”

Google has announced worth £26.5m grants recently and the just given £7.5m donation is a part of these grants. The technology giant is also funding many efforts from various organisations
to expand teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths, and helping girls in developing countries receive an education.

Short URL: https://www.newspakistan.pk/?p=7726

Posted by Zeeshan Gohar on Dec 30 2011. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry