Fighting Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, and Slavery with Fair Trade and Economic Empowerment

Year of Giving

Year of Giving Club - Stable and Sustainable Employment for Survivors

We all spend hundreds of dollars in gifts each year.  Why not also save a life through your gift-giving?!  The Year of Giving Club is Made By Survivors’ newest program - enabling our supporters to help women build safe, slavery-proof lives, while enjoying and giving inspiring products Made By Survivors.

Club members will receive a selection of beautiful gifts 2-4 times a year, as well as special reports and stories from our programs and survivors, so you can share our joy in seeing lives transformed and feel a personal connection to the people you are helping.

Made By Survivors Short Documentary

 This new documentary short film about our work empowering survivors of slavery and human trafficking was created by a team of women filmmakers from Real Deal Productions.  A full length version is  scheduled to be released in 2012.  Hear from the survivors about their hopes and dreams, and meet heroes in the anti-slavery movement.

Brick by Brick Campaign a Success, Providing Survivor-Jewelers the Space to Excel

Thanks to the generosity and support of our community, we contributed $25,000 (over half the total cost)  towards this new schoolhouse, vocational training and employment center for the hundreds of survivors who come through our partner  Rescue Foundation's Boisar Shelter near Mumbai India.

This shelter is the home of Made By Survivors' Mumbai Jewelry Center, which opened in 2010, and survivors from our Jewelry Program now use the new building for their studies and for their jewelry making.

Team India Weekly Update

Team India updates from the field in Kolkata. 

Monday October 24th 2011

A Lesson in Human Trafficking - Border Towns

india nepal borderUS Mexico BorderLiving in or near an international border town greatly increases the likelihood of a person becoming a victim of human trafficking, for a variety of reasons:

Moment in Time

There are times when you can really begin to see a difference in the people you are working with or trying to help. A moment when it becomes clear that you are getting through to them and that your effort just might be paying off. I experienced one of those moments last year with the girls in the Made By Survivors / Women's Interlink Foundation Jewelry program at Child Care Home and it has stuck with me ever since. 

In Their Own Words

All year long I've shared - in my blog, newsletters, and on our website - how I feel about slavery and about our girls' incredible potential.  Now you can hear what the survivors themselves have to say.   The quotes below come from women and children in our jobs and school sponsorship programs, and members of communities hardest hit by slavery.  Learn what matters to former slaves, and what they want you to know about them, their dreams, and how we should go about ending slavery forever:

Thanks Rosie and the team at Rosie Radio!

Rosie O'Donnell and Sarah Symons discuss Human TraffickingI was on Rosie Radio with Rosie O'Donnell, and not only did I have a great time, but  Rosie's listeners really came through and supported Made By Survivors!  So a big thanks to Rosie, her senior producer Deirdre and the entire crew.  If you missed the show - we put the interview to pictures and you can hear/watch it here:

MadeBySurvivors in REDBOOK Magazine

Made By Survivors was featured this summer in REDBOOK redbook magazine cover juneMagazine, and founder Sarah Symons was honored as a REDBOOK hero.  Sarah's message to readers:  "Our survivors possess deep inner beauty and courage, far greater than the damage and evil that has been done to them.  They are the true heroes of our organization, and I thank you for caring enough to want to help them.  The quickest way you can help is to buy a survivor-made product, and spread the word every time you wear it.  You can also make a donation to help support our many programs"

The Evolution of a Made By Survivors Jewelry Program

Join us in following the creation of our new metalsmithing and jewelry manufacturing social enterprise for survivors of human trafficking in India! Though this blog you can follow our progress, the good and the bad, and learn how we create the programs that hire survivors of human trafficking.   All this in our new blog - From Dust To Dazzle

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