Supported Transitions Global to Train and Employ Survivors of Sex Trafficking For Revenue-Generating Jobs
Needed: $4,125
Given: $4,523
Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
This three month intensive program prepared Cambodian and Vietnamese survivors of sex trafficking between the ages of 15-18 years old to enter the 21st century job market. The program included group classes as well as job training and mentorship. The girls learned the skills to successfully navigate obtaining and keeping sustainable employment. During the course, they worked with vocational trainers, job counselors, various employers, and an array of instructors that took them through the program. At graduation, they had extensive exposure to the expectations they will face in the work place and acquired the 'tools' to return to society successfully. They then returned to full-time study at Transitions and began their individual vocational training in the career field of their choice.
Helped rescue and care for over 250 children in slavery through Free The Slaves
Needed: $5,000
Given: $8,144
Location: Uttar Pradesh, North India
Free the Slaves works with locally based organization Bal Vikas Ashram (BVA) to rescue and rehabilitate children in slavery and stop the trafficking from home villages. BVA runs a rehabilitation center for children who have been enslaved in the carpet industry, brick kilns and stone quarries in Uttar Pradesh, north India. Most of these children have been trafficked hundreds of miles from desperately poor home villages in the state of Bihar.

When local volunteers or BVA staff learn about children held in slavery, they pressurize local police to join in a raid to rescue the children. Also, BVA trains transport police and railway porters to report on women and children who may be in transit to slavery. In 2007, BVA rescued 278 children. With these additional funds, BVA was able to increase the number of women and children rescued and the number of villages supported to end trafficking.
Helped provide employment to former child soldiers with Global Angels
Needed: $5,134
Given: $5,134
Location: Northern Uganda
Provided employment and revenue generation for former child soldiers at ChildVoice International's Lukodi Center in Northern Uganda. Effectiveness was ensured by Global Angels.
Helped Rescue Victims of Forced Labor with the International Justice Mission
Needed: $6000
Given: $6,186
Location: N/A
Using a sound understanding of local criminal law to prosecute perpetrators, IJM rescues victims of forced labor and brings them into new lives of freedom.
Enabled The Emancipation Network to Create Sustainable Employment and Independence For Survivors of Trafficking in Calcutta, India.
Needed: $5000
Given: $7,095
Location: Calcutta, India
Through The Emancipation Network's handicraft programs, survivors of slavery are employed by the Destiny Center to create profitable and self-sustaining businesses. With over $5000, TEN was able to hire 10 survivors and provided them with sewing machines. They were also able to offer education and workshops for all their employees.

Because of this program, survivors had the opportunity to leave shelters and live independently for the first time through financial support and a job provided by the organization.

The long term impacts of the Destiny program include:
  • Allowing survivors to rejoin society and support themselves
  • Slavery-proofing survivors and their children through economic empowerment and education
  • Creating community leaders who will challenge the current status quo educating more Americans through wider product sales
  • Opening room in shelters for newly rescued girls by enabling survivors to move out on their own
  • Enabling survivors to set an inspiring example for newly rescued girls

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