Youth in Dallas Program Completed Their First Corporate Internship!
Youth in Dallas Program Completed Their First Corporate Internship! For the youth in our Dallas program, a paid internship is a vital experience that exposes them to new employment opportunities, a professional networkof female leaders, and a pathway toward furthereducation, specialized certification, and career planning. Hilti Corporation is a multinational company that strives to create […]
Adolescent Girls in India Use Their Voices to Protect Those Most Vulnerable in Their Communities
Adolescent Girls in India Use Their Voices to Protect Those Most Vulnerable in Their Communities During a recent staff visit to Odisha, an adolescent client, Akira, shared with our Director of International Programs that she and a friend saw a couplefighting in the local market. When the husband hit the wife, Akira called the police […]
Saachi Jumpstarts Her Career in Business Development, Landing a Promotion and Overcoming Her Fear of Forced Marriage
West Bengal, India Growing up, Saachi always feared that, like many girls in her village, she would be forced to marry at a young age. She dreamed of finishing her university studies and helping her family financially, but her future was sidetracked when her father became implicated in a criminal case. After her father’s case, […]
India Program Participant Starts Successful Jewelry Business, Providing Safe Jobs for Other Women in Her Community
India Program Participant Starts Successful Jewelry Business, Providing Safe Jobs for Other Women in Her Community Since most girls in Aashvi’s rural hometown are raised in poverty and discouraged from completing their education or attaining financial independence, women are at extremely high risk of being trafficked. At one of our West Bengal sites, program trainer, […]
After Reaching Economic Freedom, Rashmi Rises as a ‘Responding Hero’ in Her Community
West Bengal, India Rashmi always took pride in her studies. Financing her schooling was difficult for her father, who is a painter and does not earn much. She is also the eldest of her parents’ daughters, a status which brought other challenges. According to local customs, her younger sisters could only get married if she did […]
Sokha’s Journey to Freedom
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Jayla’s Journey to Freedom
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Charvi’s Journey to Freedom
Despite the prevalence of exploitation around her, Charvi is now on a path to freedom.
Meet this Freedom Bearer: Kanary on Motherhood
Kanary is the Founder and Director of Cambodian Women’s Support Group (CWSG)––a social business creating job opportunities for women through pattern making, sewing, embroidery, and handicraft production. In 2015, Kanary was approached by 17 women who lost their jobs at a sewing center in Phnom Penh. After months of settling for laborious cleaning jobs, they […]
Meet this Freedom Bearer: Roshan on Motherhood
Like many women and girls from her hometown in Bihar, Roshan lived in poverty with a high risk of being trafficked. But Roshan rewrote the narrative of her life by joining the very first cohort of our Workforce Development Program, a two-year foundation training consisting of life and technical skills training, group counseling, job placement, […]
