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| Since beginning operations in 2005, T.E.N. has been able to send over $150,000 back to survivors and to 18 anti-slavery shelters and prevention agencies in Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand, India, Ukraine, Uganda, Tanzania, the Philippines and the U.S. |
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| T.E.N. has put together products from shelters and prevention programs all over the world in a way to call attention to American women about this problem…through shopping. |
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| Handicraft products, ranging from handmade crystal jewelry, purses, clothing and home goods, are made by survivors and sold through sister company The Emancipation Network giving the girls their own business and ways to be self sustaining and independent. Along with other training T.E.N. Charities is trying to make these children and young adults slavery proof. |
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| 100% of profits earned from products sales made by survivors through sister company The Emancipation Network are donated back into anti-slavery efforts performed by T.E.N. Charities. |
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| The company’s mission is to help people help themselves – to provide them with opportunities to learn a skill, get an education and receive the care they need to regain control over their own lives. T.E.N. Charities feels that independence and empowerment is the key to healing. |
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The Emancipation Network (TEN) was founded as an organization dedicated to fighting human trafficking and modern day slavery. We help survivors build businesses and help prevent slavery by creating jobs in high risk communities.
We import and sell beautiful handicraft products made by survivors of slavery and persons at risk of being trafficked into slavery.
There are many aspects to fighting slavery, so we link our income generation programs with public outreach and education programs about human trafficking and slavery. T.E.N’s Staff members, "Ambassadors" and volunteers organize awareness events across the country to educate people about human trafficking. |
Founder Sarah Symons first learned about the scope of human trafficking when she saw the film “The Day My God Died’ by Andrew Levine, at the Tribeca Film Festival. |
According to Sarah "I was at the festival on totally unrelated business: I write and record music for TV, and for the first time, in 2002, a song I had written was used as the title song in a film (‘Nola’).
This independent film was selected for the Tribeca Festival, so with great excitement, I went down to see my song in the film. |
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The trip was supposed to be a celebration, so when I looked at the film listings and saw ‘The Day My God Died’, a documentary about child sex trafficking between Nepal and India, I did not immediately think I should go. I thought I already knew all about the issue - wrong! I had many misconceptions.
I also thought the film would be too sad and depressing for this celebratory occasion in my life - wrong again! The film was deeply disturbing and along with most of the audience, I cried almost all the way through it, but it was anything but depressing! In fact, the film was incredibly hopeful and inspiring, in that it profiled survivors who had turned the tables – they were using their horrific experiences as a springboard for social change, creating an Underground Railroad to help others avoid the suffering they had experienced as sex slaves. Read more>> |
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Alicia MacGregor, Executive Director, Board Treasurer Email Alicia
Alicia has worked with TEN since its early days, with a personal mission to help children and their families. Currently she is TEN Charities Executive Director and her main focus is on bringing education to these children and young adults to help them become “slavery proof”. She holds a Bachelor of Science in cartography, and has an entrepreneurial background as a coffee shop and historic inn owner . She has traveled extensively around the world and enjoys exploring new places as well as old. Her home base is in the Cape Cod area. She has a flair for business, decorating, gardening and helping children. |
Dan Spacek, Board Director Email Dan
Associate Pastor of the First Church of Christ in Sandwich, where Dan has been involved with forming an Abolition Task Force to educate and equip church/community members to fight modern day slavery. An avid runner and sometime singer, Dan enjoys combining his passion for music and athletics with creative fund-raising for The Emancipation Network, TEN Charities. In 2007, Dan participated in a TEN service trip to Kolkata, India and he looks forward to leading another group in 2008. Dan's motivation for this work emerges from his love of children, his penchant for seeing possibilities within people and situations, and his passion for living a life that builds justice and hope in the world.
2008 achievements for TEN Charities, running the Boston Marathon and raising over $5000 for TEN Charities |
Elizabeth Goldberg, Board Director Email Elizabeth
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of English at Babson College, Wellesley, MA, where she teaches courses in international literatures and human rights. Author of Beyond Terror: Gender, Narrative, Human Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2007), Dr. Goldberg has published articles in journals and edited collections in the areas of multicultural literature and pedagogies, gender studies, and human rights. In addition to other service and community work, Dr. Goldberg was recently elected to the position of Vice Chair of the Barnstable County Human Rights Commission. |
Jackie Reeves, Board Secretary Email Jackie
Jackie Reeves is a mother of three daughters and a professional mural artist. As an arts instigator and community activist, she encourages people to stay connected with their creative spirit by providing outlets, opportunities and programs for creative expression. Jackie's work with TEN involves coordinating arts events that raise awareness about modern day slavery. Originally from Canada, she's now loving the Cape Cod beaches! |
Jacqueline Cronin, Board Director Email Jacqueline
University of Wisconsin undergrad, Attended Suffolk University Law School (nights) while working as an international flight attendant. Currently practicing law at a general practice firm in Lexington and handling contract work. Most importantly: Mother of three children. |
John McDonagh, Board Director Email John
John A. McDonagh is a volunteer for The Emancipation Network (TEN) and a member of the TEN Charities Board of Directors. In his other life, John serves as counsel for the U.S. Army's massive groundwater cleanup effort at the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod. John and his family live in Sandwich, MA on Cape Cod." |
Paula Grieco, Board Chair Email Paula
As an entrepreneur and business executive, Paula Grieco has a significant track record in company building disciplines including strategy, business planning and development, technology, sales and marketing. Currently, Paula is Principal, Co-founder, and Co-owner of Etimes3, Inc., a web strategy and technology firm serving corporate clients in the media, non-profit and other industries. Paula leverages her business expertise as an active member of her local and international community with particular passion for advocacy and social justice for women and girls. Paula serves as Chairperson on the board of The Emancipation Network (TEN), a social enterprise focused on helping end modern-day slavery through education and economic empowerment. |
Sally Pollard-Fiore, Board Director Email Sally
Photographer, gardener, snow boarder
Although her education concentrated in Foreign Language and International Business, Sallly currently work as a photographer and artist. Originally from the South Shore of MA and finds it always a wonderful place to return to. Sally strives to women and children and has found that helping survivors of human trafficking through TEN Charities has added new depth of purpose to her work and life on every personal and professional level. |
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