From Vulnerability to Leading Change: Sonya’s Journey Through Nomi Network
January marks Human Trafficking Awareness Month, at Nomi Network we are shining a spotlight on how women and girls are strengthening communities. Meet Sonya, a 14-year-old girl from a rural village in West Bengal, India, whose journey from vulnerability to leadership showcases the impact of Nomi Network’s Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP). Sonya’s Dream: From […]
Empowering Women, Ending Exploitation: 15 Years of Impact with Nomi Network
2024 marks 15 years since Nomi Network began empowering survivors of human trafficking and vulnerable women through life-changing support and economic opportunities. Though the organization is fifteen years old, the Nomi Network story began years before that in a small hut in rural Cambodia. A Father’s Plea for Help Diana Mao Kelly was traveling throughout […]
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, […]
