Somaly Mam, Cambodia 2010
DFW Funding: $32,307
About SMF Law Enforcement Training
The Web Site: www.somaly.org
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Nicholas Kristof writes about Somaly Mam in his New York Times column
Download and view videos on the Somaly Mam website HERE , including:
SMF Board Member Susan Sarandon on the Tyra Banks Show
CNN’s Anderson Cooper reports on Sexual slavery in Cambodia
Somaly Mam on the Tyra Banks Show
Additional Links: www.amazon.com/Road-Lost-Innocence-Cambodian-Heroine/dp/0385526229
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEx75iqUAho
The Mission: to give victims and survivors a voice in their lives, liberate victims, end slavery, and empower survivors as they create and sustain lives of dignity.
Somaly Mam Foundation was co-counded by sexual slavery survivor, Somaly Mam.
The Project: The Somaly Mam Foundation (SMF) is focused on helping survivors of human trafficking in SouthEast Asia. The major goals are to provide Victim Services, eradicate Human Trafficking and to empower survivors. A key strategy to empower survivors is to provide educational scholarships, including college scholarships. Dining for Women’s donations will go to the SMF scholarship fund and victim training program , which will be invested in a trust fund and used to pay for primary, secondary, and higher education and other services for victims who wish to continue formal academic education.
Why We Love this Program: The project highlights the importance of recognizing trafficking as a legal and health issue and recognizes women and children’s rights to protection and access to health service to a level commensurate within the severe harm caused by trafficking. In this light, it is important to recognize the long-term health consequences of trafficking (particularly mental health outcomes), and the provision of long-term strategies. The services provided by the project will foster women and children’s overall well being with practical forms of assistance like legal, medical, social service and education. The second emphasis is on social reintegration in order to provide professional skills and tools to have access to the job market or to set up a sustainable micro business. The third priority is access to legal service as receiving justice and being fairly treated is a healing process in itself.
Left, Somaly Mam and Susan Sarandon fight against a form of slavery that still exists today: the sex trafficking industry.
