Personal Message to REDBOOK Readers

Thanks for taking the step of coming to our website after reading about me in REDBOOK Magazine.  I am truly honored to have been chosen as a REDBOOK hero!  I am a REDBOOK reader too, because I love how the magazine focuses not just on how women look but on the beauty that is inside each one of us.   Our survivors also 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 Destiny center in Calcutta, our new jewelry program, the Freedom School for former quarry slaves, jobs and education programs for survivors in Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Uganda and New York, clean water, aftercare and rescue.  Believe me, we stretch every dollar, re-use every box, and keep overhead costs in the US to an absolute minimum so that every donation can go where it is needed most - to help people get free from slavery and remain slavery-free through empowerment and education.

We are also in great need of school sponsors for child survivors and kids born into brothels - you can change a child's life and end the cycle of slavery ina  family forever for $30 a month.  Unlike most other charities that do sponsorship, we do not take any money out for administrative costs-  100% of the sponsorship money goes to school fees, shelter or boarding school room and board, transportation and wire fees.

As you may have read in the article, I'm also a mom and I run this agency in partnership with my husband John Berger (challenging but wonderful situation!)  Watching my own kids grow up safe, strong, educated and free really adds motivation to my work for the children in slavery that are not so lucky.  Some of the survivors i met on my last trip in january were young enough to sit on my lap.  And that's unacceptable!

Please don't stop here - join our community and continue to research slavery and learn more so that you can become a modern day abolitionist.  We need your voices, your loving hands, and your compassionate heart which perhaps like mine is broken by the human rights emergency of slavery.

Yours in Hope, Sarah