Freedom Fighting Kiwis Tackle Sex Trade

Stuff.co.nz:

The former Albany couple have saved dozens of women from a life of prostitution in Calcutta’s red light district.

They have given each a job and hope for the future through their company Freeset.

‘It’s a business of freedom taking on a business of slavery,’ says Mr Hilton. ‘We want to bring freedom in a way that means something.’

The seeds of Freeset were planted eight years ago when Mr Hilton started noticing the plight of Auckland’s poor. Every weekend he left his family’s Albany cottage to talk to the homeless in places like Karangahape Rd and Otara.

He learned poverty is mainly about a lack of choice rather than a lack of money.

‘It was my journey of discovery. I had to understand what poverty is all about,’ he says.

He soon latched on to the idea of a business transforming poverty-stricken communities after reading an article on Calcutta.

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