Google Inc. Announces Battle with Slavery

Wednesday, 28 December 2011 00:00

Written by Navid Iqbal

The most popular and world’s one of the largest valuable site Google Inc. has announced at Wednesday that this site is going to  provide 11.5 million dollar in funding to the ten organizations who actually work to the end contemporary slavery as well as  human trafficking.

Gary Haugen who is the president as well as a CEO of the “International Justice Mission” plus well known as one of the big donation recipients indicated the move as the "game-changing investment." However, this International Justice Mission is actually the Washington-based individual rights agency what actually works for rescuing the victims of the slavery and the sexual abuse in around dozens of countries.

The CEO has said that "This is the largest corporate step up to the challenge that is beginning to apply direct resources to the fight against slavery,” In accordance with the estimates by the grant recipients, this site of Google support will obviously free a predictable 12,000 human beings from the slavery and will also be able to prevent the millions of people from being unfortunately victimized. Generally the numbers differ broadly, but the policymakers, the activists as well as the scholars estimate amount of the current slaves at anyhow between ten million and thirty million people around the whole world.

The director of the Google's charitable providing, Jacquelline Fuller, told that this company has already chosen to spotlight this issue of the slavery. Fuller told “Many people are surprised to learn there are more people trapped in slavery today than any time in history." The reason behind it is this topic of the freedom and the most fundamental rights of the human resonated with the company employees throughout the world. She also added “The good news is that there are solutions. Google is supporting organizations that have a proven track record and a plan to make a difference at scale." The grant will be equally shared by the newly formed coalition of the international anti-trafficking associations. The volume of donation counting $8 million will surely go to the two coalitions which are led by the IJM in the country of India. As well, $1.8 million is decided to go to U.S. Anti-Trafficking Initiative.  The IJM tells most of the funding will come from the private donations. Again, in the year of 2010, it says, less than 1 percent of its grant came from the large business or big corporate foundations.