Freeset

Driven by poverty or dragged by trafficking, many women of Kolkata, India are left with only one option for provision: To sell their bodies on the streets of the infamous sex district.

Enter Freeset! Freeset is a fair trade operation in the business of freedom that empowers women trapped in the sex trade through the employment of making quality jute bags and organic t-shirts.

The business originated after a naïve move from New Zealand found Kerry & Annie Hilton and their family in the center of the red light district, and their eyes opened to a world of hopeless women in need of an income alternative. In 2001 Freeset humbly entered the scene with 20 brave women who dared to leave the sex trade behind for the hope and dignity offered to them by a couple of strangers.

Today more than 150 women have made the same choice to make the journey to FREEDOM.

At wages double to that of comparable employment, along with health insurance, pension plans, education opportunities, and child care, the women not only are equipped to change their own lives, but to bring freedom to their families as well.

Profits for Freeset are turned into funds to further grow the business to bring more women the opportunity of a life beyond the streets.