What do we fundraise for in 2024?
In 2024-25 our goal is for even deeper impact and more lives rescued.
The Peak Race (Running To Stop The Traffik) is a Hong Kong-registered charity with a host of anti-slavery initiatives including:
Mentoring Workshops
Youth Empowerment Conferences & Events
Student Leadership Programs
Incubators and Youth Seeding Campaigns
And much more
In addition to this, we are collaborating with international anti-trafficking organisation A21, supporting their frontline work in Thailand and Cambodia.
Here is a breakdown of some of A21's current projects to give you an idea of type of impact your team's fundraising will have:
HKD $7,800 | Provide Legal Assistance to Survivors for 1 Month
HKD $4,056 | Support Reach Programs in Cambodia for 1 Week
HKD $9,126 | Survivor Health Care Budget for 2 Months
HKD $32,760 | Supports a Child Advocacy Centre for a whole month, ensuring child victims of slavery are in a safe environment, while allowing the team to conduct cases against child sex offenders, child traffickers and online crimes against children.
An in-depth report will be available at the end of 2024 outlining the projects A21 worked on and the impact of each project.
Check out last year’s project and more about A21 below:
In 2022-23 we supported the rebuild of the Child Advocacy Center and a major film project in Cambodia.
Why This Matters
Child Advocacy Center
A child advocacy center seeks to create a child-friendly environment employing interviewing methods which take a child’s age development into consideration. Such forensic interviewing techniques will ensure that information elicited from the child is not tainted or suggestive. This will result in testimony that is more usable by the court in a prosecution. As a result of proper forensic interviewing techniques, there will be an increase In disclosure of abuse by a child, increase in child victims identified, recognition by law-enforcement of proper techniques for interviewing a child, and utilizing properly trained interviewers for such interviews. Creation of MDTs will result in coordination of both prosecution efforts and service provided to survivors.
Film Project
The film produce will go into every school in Cambodia warning children about two specific things: Online Exploitation and Forced Marriage.
Who Are A21?
Vision
We believe in a world without slavery. For 10 years now, we've rolled up our sleeves and set our feet to action. Why? Because in a single moment a number can turn into a name, a tragedy into a victory, and a belief into an action. Freedom. That's our goal for every human being on the planet.
Mission
Abolish slavery everywhere, forever.
Past Projects
We have partnered with some amazing charities since 2010. Check out some of past projects with our charitable partners.
Operation24
Click on the link below to read our 2018-2020 project. This partnership with The Exodus Road, called Operation24, saw the 24 Hour Race fund the freedom of 326 victims of slavery and the entire process of putting 177 traffickers behind bars:
Chab Dai Coalition
The 24 Hour Race helps finance programs through 49 Cambodian NGOs by supporting Chab Dai Collection’s work with anti-slavery organisations. Chab Dai Collection develops best practises, connecting programs and providing much needed support to under-resourced NGOs. Some of their programs include prevention, protection, intervention, aftercare, reintegration, vocational training, employment provision for victims of slavery.
Justice Centre
Justice Centre is a Hong Kong-based charity that provides free, independent high-quality legal information to all people going through the Unified Screening Mechanism, in their own language, where possible. They aim to provide life-changing services to refugee men, women, and children. They campaign for fairer legislation and policies, produce reports and policy papers, conduct research and work with schools, universities and the media to fight root causes and change systems and minds.
Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation
Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation is an Australian charity in Vietnam founded in 2003 when two friends offered English lessons to street kids. Since then, Blue Dragon has expanded into an organization of 67 loyal staff, helping to support over 1,500 children throughout Vietnam every year.
Right4Children
Right4Children focuses on the prevention and long term change aspect of battling human trafficking. They do this through various projects ranging from hotel training programs to earthquake rebuilding. They focus on helping young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, which includes former trafficking victims. Right4Children acknowledges the ease in which rescued trafficking victims tends to go back to traffickers as they face many hardships during their reintegration into society - they have most likely missed many crucial years of education making it hard for them to find jobs, and they also have to face social stigma.
SUKA Society
SUKA Society is a small but growing organization, one that has already inspired our student network in Kuala Lumpur through its educational and awareness programming. This year 24 Hour Race will support the operations of SUKA’s transitional shelter for victims of trafficking to Malaysia, a destination country for domestic workers, bonded labor, and the sex trade. SUKA’s shelter is designated primarily for children, so often exploited in these circumstances. This is a key resource in the government’s effort to address the human trafficking situation. SUKA’s programming at the shelters place an emphasis on vocational skill-set development, so that victims not only have a productive pipeline back into society, but are able to generate income while in the transitory shelter.