About the 24 Hour Race

In 2010, the 24 Hour Race was founded by a high school student called Christopher Schrader.
Our movement is almost entirely student-led, with events organized by committees of high school volunteers and supported in the background by our headquarters, located in Hong Kong.
We have been a Hong Kong registered Charity since 2014.
The 24 Hour Race has incubated 90 talented high school students who have been "Directors" responsible for managing and executing our races. These students have gone on to found their own social impact ventures, making the world a better place.
The 24 Hour Race has directly engaged over 120,000 young people across four cities in fundraising and awareness campaigns to fight modern slavery.
To date, the 24 Hour Race has raised over HKD 8,000,000 to impact the trajectory of slavery and exploitation in Asia.
The 24 Hour Race has High School events in four countries: Hong Kong (2010), Singapore (2011), Kuala Lumpur (2014) and Seoul (2016), and will expand to six in 2018
The 24 Hour Race has supported the work of 12 NGOs that work in the field, reaching over 5,000 victims of slavery.
In 2016, over 2,200 students from Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Seoul ran in our events, raising over HKD 1.7 million and reaching 100,000 + young people in our social media advocacy campaigns.
In 2017, over 2,500 students from Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur aim to raise USD 100,000 to fund "Operation 24". The Seoul race will take place in mid-2018.

About Slavery

Slavery is a broad term used to describe human trafficking, forced marriage, forced labour and exploitation. If human trafficking is a sympton, then slavery is the disease.
According to a 2017 report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on modern slavery:
- The industry generates annual profits of over USD 150 billion
- On any given day in 2016, there were an estimated 40.3 million people who were victims of modern slavery.
- Female slaves account for 71% of all slaves
- 1 in 4 victims of slavery are children
- At any given time, some 16 million people around the world are victims of forced labour exploitation in the private sector (not including sexual exploitation). On average, they are held 20.5 months before escaping or being freed.
- At any given time in 2016, 4.8 million people are victims of forced sexual exploitation. On average, they are held for 23.4 months in their situation before escaping or being freed. The vast majority are women and girls. Children represent more than 20% of the victims.
- The prevalence rate of slavery in Asia and the Pacific is 0.61% or 6 people out of every 1000