1. Survivor Engagement & Ethical Business

The Freedom Hub provides exclusive access to survivor insights, empowering businesses to develop human-centred ethical policies, strengthen corporate governance, and drive meaningful change. Through our Survivor Engagement & Ethical Business Consulting services, your business will gain unique, survivor-informed strategies that strengthen your corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethical governance, and modern slavery compliance efforts.

“Survivors have the strongest voice in this work. They are the only ones who truly understand what it is like to be enslaved and what they need to recover.”
— Sally Irwin, Founder of The Freedom Hub

Embedding the voices and lived experiences of survivors of slavery into business policies and procedures is crucial for several reasons.

1. It brings a human perspective to the policies, ensuring that the voices of those directly affected by slavery are heard and respected.
2. Businesses gain a deeper understanding of the impact of slavery and its ongoing effects on individuals and communities, leading to more inclusive, sensitive policies.
3. Survivor voices offer invaluable insights into specific challenges, vulnerabilities, and potential solutions related to slavery. Their input can inform the development of effective prevention strategies, victim support programs, and mechanisms to combat modern forms of slavery within business operations and supply chains.
4. Embedding survivors’ lived experiences into business sends a powerful message of accountability and commitment to addressing slavery. It demonstrates a genuine desire to learn from survivors and prioritise human rights, dignity, and recovery.

Ultimately, by integrating survivor voices into business policies and procedures, companies can foster an environment of empathy, understanding, and social responsibility while contributing to the broader goal of eradicating slavery and promoting human rights.

Learning from lived experience and turning survivor insights into concrete actions leads to a more victim-centred and effective approach to combating modern slavery.

For many years, we have wrestled with a delicate tension: protecting survivors’ privacy and well-being, while amplifying their voices to drive systemic change.

Many survivors do not want their past experiences to define who they are today. They want to be seen as strong, capable individuals who have overcome tremendous obstacles, not as victims to be pitied. Retelling their stories can be retraumatising and undermine their hard-earned independence.

At the same time, survivor insights are critical. They inform better policy, strengthen government responses, and improve community awareness.

To balance these needs, The Freedom Hub created the Survivor Advisory Board: a safe, trauma-informed platform where survivors share their insights anonymously, with dignity and control over how their voices are used.

Our Survivor Advisory Board members are diverse in age, nationality, and experience, having survived different forms of modern slavery in Australia. They now lead fulfilling lives in freedom.