Did you know that an average of 173 million tons of sugar are produced worldwide each year, and much of it comes from farms that use forced labor child labor and event forced child labor in countries like Mexico, India, Bolivia, and more. Being aware of your sugar consumption and where you are sourcing your ingredients is the first step towards becoming a conscious consumer!
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Recent UNH Today article, " A Movement on the Move ," features The Freedom Cafe. The article shares the evolution of the café from our humble beginnings to our move to Main Street! We are so proud of how far we have come and grateful to be on this journey with you!
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Carol has been a volunteer barista at the Freedom Café for about four years. She began volunteering with us during her freshman year at UNH after attending a Perform for Freedom event. She has since graduated, but continues to live in the area and volunteer each week.
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Meet Rachel, one of our very dedicated board members! Rachel has been involved with the Freedom Café since her freshman year at UNH in 2014, when she started out as a volunteer barista, and has been moving up through the ranks ever since! In her time here, Rachel co-founded the Outreach Team, worked as an HR intern, and helped managed the café's interns as Assistant Director.
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Today marks a pivotal day in the history of the Café!!!… too dramatic. Today marks a pivotal day in my history with the Café! This will be my first week, as an employee, that I will not have to stick my hands in the dirty compost bin to condense everything into an 8 gallon Mr. Fox Composting bin. We’ve gone commercial size!!! 32 gallons of glorious space!!!!!! Big shout out to the incredible company @mrfoxcomposting for offering services! I’m so emotional about this that I wrote an entire blog on my journey over the past 6 months with composting via the Freedom Café.
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“With an experienced and supportive board of directors and staff team, and clarity around our unique role in the movement to end trafficking, The Freedom Café is confident that this move to Durham’s Main Street will create a community space to engage audiences of all ages,” said Sean Matthews, Board Chair. “We are excited to expand our menu to include new consciously-sourced items, build a fully sustainable infrastructure to support educational programing and project fund capacity, and increase awareness and resource generation to continue to fight human trafficking.” Support The Freedom Cafe’s “Building Freedom” Campaign
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During a visit with UNH Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics , "Business for People, Planet, and Profits" class, we asked students to consider, "What barriers keep student from buying consciously sourced products?" Their responses (below) echo the challenges we all face when seeking to be savvy shoppers who support fair wages, sustainability and integrity throughout the supply chain.
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In 2020 – 42 volunteers gave a collective 945 Hours helping The Freedom Café serve over 3000 guests, host 45 Advocacy Training Programs and equip 549 individuals with foundational knowledge and resources to identify, address, and prevent human trafficking.
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The Made By: Freedom Box will introduce you to new high-quality products and brands that fully embrace transparency and sustainability and also give you insight into how to make conscious purchases in the future.
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