2:53 pm Not For Sale
And we need to act fast. We have one week to raise the $10,000 necessary to sustain our newest international project:
Please WATCH this remarkable video.
At the Transitional Living Center (TLC), Vietnamese and Cambodian girls, ages 13-18, rescued from the slave trade are immersed into an innovative and holistic development program. Where most aftercare shelters experience a tragic 70% rate of failure - meaning the girls are re-victimized by traffickers or voluntarily return to the sex industry - Transitions Cambodia has a success rate of 75% and climbing! Graduates from similar programs often lack adult life skills, or are unable to secure a sustainable income with their substandard job training.
Transitions, however, champions an adult life skills program, integrated psychological therapy, exercise, spiritual reflection, and career training for the 21st century job market. Through this holistic approach, the young women are restored, empowered, and able to realize their dreams.
One MORE reason why we’re excited about our partners at Transitions: they have found a system that cuts the cost of aftercare in half! By outsourcing services for education, training, and vocational placement, Transitions supports local business, while reducing its own overhead. This system in Cambodia costs approximately $250,000 a year to successfully support 20 girls through the program — a small number when compared to other programs around the world. These costs ensure safe shelter, quality medical and dental care, counseling and therapy, as well as superior job training and education for every girl coming through “TLC.” The success is both astonishing… and invigorating! Restoring and empowering girls through belief and opportunity transforms these young women from victims… into survivors.
Amidst the strongholds of trafficking, abuse, and exploitation, hope is seeping in. Hope for young women to escape a life of bondage. Hope for these girls to abide in a haven of community, love and support. Hope for them to envision future vocations, and prepare themselves to live them out. And hope that disheartening statistics about the failure rate of aftercare programs not only can be broken, but can be completely reversed. That’s why we at Not For Sale are so excited.
But hope and excitement lead us to ACTION, and the timing for this action is critical.
Please consider partnering with us now to raise $10,000. This is the minimum needed to sustain the work of our Transitions Cambodia project through the month of October. Each dollar you give makes a difference. Partnered together, we feel confident that we can meet this need, and will continue to do so far into the future.
Donate HERE to fight Slavery in Cambodia.
For more information, download our information PDF (10 MB).
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In Cambodia, in 2008 an anti-trafficking policy change resulted in overnight criminal status of adult sex workers and drug users to be imprisoned in detention camps, malnourished and abused by authorities until their families can afford bail. The prisoners are detained in the same detention camps used during the reign of Pol Pot. This is all in an effort to prove that they are cracking down on human trafficking. NO ONE SEEMS TO BE FINDING the REAL CHILD TRAFFICKING VICTIMS so they arrest and imprison ADULT voluntary sex workers. Because there are the only ones they are finding.
Decriminalization makes it safer for everyone involved and helps to uncover underworld conditions that breed trafficking and exploitative prostitution. More people would go to police and report REAL CHILD TRAFFICKING VICTIMS since they won’t fear the police. Adult prostituton should be decriminalized.
Posted by christine, on November 3rd, 2008, at 12:43 pm. #.