Freeset organic cotton bags are at the heart of a business set up to abolish the enslaving trade of prostitution for India’s poorest women and girls.
In 1999, New Zealanders Kerry and Annie Hilton left their country with their four children to work with the poor in Calcutta. When they moved into their new house, they discovered that in the evening the neighborhood turned into a sex-trafficing district. As they started to get to know their neighbors, ideas began forming about creating a business that could employ the woman and restore their self-esteem.
Each bag tells a story of one woman’s journey to freedom. She used to stand with 6,000 other prostitutes in North Calcutta. She didn’t choose her profession; it chose her because of her poverty.
She still lives in the same area, but instead of selling her body she creates Freeset Bags.
