Empowerment & Hope for Survivors of Trafficking and Slavery
The Emancipation Network fights slavery by empowering survivors and people at high risk to rebuild their lives. We help individuals and communities become slavery-proof with jobs, job training, education, aftercare and reintegration. We sell beautiful products Made By Survivors at our web store, and use the profits to provide help, home and hope to others rescued from slavery. You can help us, and make a real difference in the lives of trafficking survivors by hosting an Awareness Party in your home or community. Click to Read more
Destiny - New opportunities for survivors
Destiny Productions in Calcutta, India is TEN's newest initiative to help human trafficking survivors become fully independent, and to slavery-proof them and their children into the future.To assist human trafficking survivors in reintegration, The Emancipation Network opened the Destiny Center to hire survivors from four different area shelters.
Going All In to Fight Slavery
My abolition hero this month is author Kathleen McGowan, who is going "all in" - using her gifts and influence as a bestselling fiction writer to spread the word about slavery and to promote the work of our organization. In fact, Kathleen has pledged to donate 5% of the royalties of her newest release, The Book of Love (available at Amazon.com), to help us build a jewelry casting program for survivors in India! Click to Read more
India Trip Report 2009
Each year we take a team of volunteers to work with survivors and high risk kids at our partner shelters in Calcutta. Read the full report from this year's trip. Also, check out the video from the trip (embedded at the end of this post): The team took 92 children and their mothers, from the Kidderpore red light area, on an all-day outing to the Bay of Bengal. It was a rare day away from the poverty, stigma and constant menace they face on the streets.Click to Read more
Video Blog from January Visit to Partner Shelters
Volunteers from the Body Shop describe their experience visiting MadeBySurvivors partner shelters
Abolition Community reaches out to Obama
The Action Group to End Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery, which we are an Ally of, has put together a great document that outlines what the US should be doing to fight slavery. Click to read it hereClick to Read more
"Sister you cannot imagine..."
Jan. 5: Reporting from Calcutta , where I am leading a 10 day volunteer trip at our partner shelters: Yesterday was a day of seemingly magical transformations. I spent the day at the Sanlaap shelter home – Sanlaap is one of India’s biggest and most respected anti-slavery agencies, serving hundreds of red light area kids as well as the 100 rescued survivors at the shelter home. Some of the survivors are very recently rescued and speak an obscure tribal language that no one else here speaks, so they havebeen mostly keeping to themselves.Click to Read more
