Our Story

THE CARASA STORY

An Insight

As a 12-year-old, Rachel Heard participated in a child slavery simulation at school and was shown how millions of children worldwide are treated, working as slave labour in order to pay their parents’ debts. Many young children have had their childhoods ripped away from them and their futures destroyed in order to create luxury items for the fortunate to use at their leisure.

Rachel’s Vision

Rachel was so profoundly impacted and discomfited by the experience, she went home and set out plans to establish a Foundation which would raise funds to address the problem and provide a better life for these children.

CARASA stands for Care for All, Reach All, Serve All. We strive to raise awareness of the issue of child slavery and slave labour. It is our aim to free children from slavery and also to help provide a fair and just economic future through shelter, hospital care and education.

An Outcome

Since 2011 The CARASA Foundation has been working alongside fair-trade organisations to provide this better future.

From 2014 to 2022, we were partnered with Freeset India to help girls and women escape from the sex trade and find respect and employment with a living wage in making fair trade products including bags and t-shirts.

In 2022, we started a new partnership with Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation based in Hanoi, Vietnam who work to prevent children and their families from being trafficked into slavery.