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New Rivers’ goal is to make slavery obsolete  within three generations through disrupting slave-based industries, wherever they exist...

There is, however, a healthy space between dower financial management and impulsive consumerism. Money can be enjoyed without guilt or...

There is, however, a healthy space between dower financial management and impulsive consumerism. Money can be enjoyed without guilt or...

When families transition from slavery into regular employment it is important for them to quickly improve their financial literacy to...

To quote The Rolling Stones “You can’t always get what you want but sometimes you find that you get what you need”. Over the past few...

"Many countries do not have 'social safety nets' to support families who fall on hard times. Persistent inflation and low wages lead to...

"Exposure to slavery is being recognised as a weakness within a business which must be addressed. The tide is turning, slowly." I started...

"The heat from this process is intense. The men working on the brick hill must wear wooden shoes as these provide the best insulation...

"There is a universal lack of transparency and cooperative business practices to ensure that consumers have adequate information to...

"There is a pervasive interconnectivity between the services and products we buy and slavery or slave-based industries. Unwittingly,...

"It is easy to be overcome by the sheer size of the challenge facing us at New Rivers. In many ways, I have found a bottomless well of...

"Is slavery today the same as slavery in the past, now that the trans-Atlantic slave trade of the 1600 to 1800s has ended?" We continue...

"Community and education are vital components of the rehabilitation process. Without education children may end up in the same...

"An effective way to distinguish between child labour and child slavery is to consider the extent to which the labour performed results...

"Freedom of the choice to determine what kind of work and for whom to work is a clear difference between low-wage labour and slavery."...

"A relatively small number of changes to the remuneration of workers, labour distribution and fuel sources can significantly improve the...

"By allocating unused land to factory workers for personal cultivation and introducing simple technologies like charcoal water filtration...

Understandably, we all want cheaper food, but the increasing competition within global food markets puts pressure to cut corners and pay...

"At New Rivers, we don't just avoid unethical industries; we transform them. Our direct investment approach turns traditional ethics on...

"The well-known business principle of supply and demand can be used to make slavery obsolete. All that is needed is ingenuity, patience,...