Human Trafficking Sex Trafficking, and Slavery

To improve the lives of slavery survivors through empowerment and education, to assist rescue shelters by offering job programs and funding, to improve rehabilitation and reintegration, and to prevent trafficking in high risk communities...

Beautiful Handicrafts MadeBySurvivors

Our programs are supported not only by donations, but also by the efforts of our survivors themselves, who design and create unique fair trade jewelry, bags and gifts. 100% of profits are donated to survivors and shelters.

Helping Slavery and Human Trafficking Survivors with Employment

We offer fairly paid and dignified work to survivors of slavery in Nepal, India, Cambodia, Thailand, Uganda, the Philippines and Ukraine, giving them the means to rebuild their own safe, slavery-free lives

MadeBySurvivors Handicrafts

These beautiful jewelry items, handbags and gifts are made by survivors of slavery at shelters around the world, offering them sustainable income, dignity, and a bright future free of slavery and exploitation

Reintegration

After rescue and aftercare, reintegrating into mainstream society is the final step in a survivors journey to freedom. However, many rescued survivors have no safe place to go, because of the risk of being re-trafficked, social stigma, and a lack of skills, education, or economic options. We offer caring, holistic, long term support to assist survivors in reintegration

Education

Education is key to ensuring that families remain free, through the generations. Through school sponsorship for child survivors and kids born into brothels, and nonformal education for adults, we enable survivors to become leaders who transform their communities from within

Giving You the Power to Change Lives

We offer you the opportunity to bring the abolitionist movement to your community, making a huge difference in the lives of survivors and educating your friends in a hopeful, empowering way

Rescue

27 million people are enslaved in the world today. The first step is to rescue slaves or to give them the tools to free themselves when possible Rescued survivors then need intensive medical and psychological care, housing, legal aid and education

Help your cause while helping human trafficking survivors

Times are tough for charities and donations are down. In tough times we need to work together, so Made By Survivors has created a program that lets you support your favorite charity while helping survivors of human trafficking and slavery.

All you have to do is fill out this form and let us know about the charity you want to support. Then we will email you a promotion code and we will donate 25% or all sales of Made By Survivors gifts purchased with that code. Send that code to all your friends so they can use their holiday shopping to help!

You can support any kind of charity or fundraiser, school, club or place of worship. Please spread the word about this program!

Women and Girls Renewing the Earth and Rebuilding their Lives

The Emancipation Network's newest project is to build a biodiesel plant in Boisar, India, at the Rescue Foundation shelter for survivors of brothel slavery. The plant will enable us to train survivors in renewable energy management, agriculture, and animal husbandry, and will provide dairy products and fuel for the shelter home. Excess energy and dairy products will be sold locally to provide sustainable income for the survivors and shelter

Incredible Slavery Survivor-Activists honored at Freedom Awards

Submitted by Sarah Symons on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 16:30

The annual Freedom Awards event in Los Angeles, hosted by FreetheSlaves, brought international attention to the abolition cause, and honored unsung heroes such as Sina Vann from Cambodia and Veero from Pakistan - both survivors of slavery who have dedicated their lives to rescuing others from slavery.
I was blown away, and humbled, by one small detail of Veero's story: In order to get resources to help rescue her neighbors from bonded labor slavery on farms or in heavy industy, Veero sometimes sells a pot from her own kitchen. I know sometimes I think I work hard, or have given up a lot to do this work, but imagine if you had just two pots, and you had to sell one of them to free a neighbor?! Veero lives in a simple thatched dwelling with a dirt floor - from this no-frills headquarters, she has helped several hundred people to freedom. Talk about keeping it real!

Weddings and a New Family for Sex-Trafficking Survivors

Submitted by Sarah Symons on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 19:30

In India, just like here in America, weddings are fun and powerful celebrations that bring together families. Weddings are normal, happy, and a core part of the progression of life. But weddings are not typically part of the normal happy life for survivors of sex trafficking. Some have even been trafficked by means of false marriages. More importantly, it’s very hard for survivors of sex trafficking to get over the stigma that they are somehow bad or dirty, and to get accepted into a new family or community.

To one of our partners in India, Rescue Foundation, this was unacceptable. Rescue Foundation rescues girls out of sex trafficking with the goal of reintegrating them back into their typically rural, agricultural communities. These communities often have a shortage of eligible women to marry due to a gender selection.

Breaking the bonds of Bonded Labor

Submitted by Sarah Symons on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 03:41

In Firojpur, a remarkable group of children who were recently working as slaves alongside their parents are now learning to read and write in a simple bamboo bungalow. They are students at TEN's Freedom School in Uttar Pradesh, India. The hands now weilding pencils held instead the tools of heavy labor, working in quarries or toiling on farms from dawn to dusk, and the future seemed devoid of other alternatives. Millions of families are enslaved in bonded labor across South Asia. They never see the benefits of their dirty, dangerous or degrading work -Instead, they are working off ‘debts’ typically less than $100, which only accumulate over time as the system is designed to keep them in bondage indefinitely. Threats of violence, or actual violence, serve to keep them enslaved, and many do not realize that bonded labor is an illegal practice.

Upcoming Events to Fight Slavery

Washington DC, Sat. Nov. 21 at 8pm, Washington Club on Dupont Circle.

The ball is an elegant and fun black-tie gala with a cocktail buffet, a silent auction and a great band for dancing. Proceeds will benefit Innocents at Risk, Polaris Project and The Emancipation Network to support their work fighting human trafficking and modern-day slavery. Tickets are on sale now at www.CapitalCityBall.org

Maine Mom Becomes MadeBySurvivors Ambassador - Fighting Slavery from Home

Becky Mallory, a MadeBySurvivors Ambassador, was just featured in the news! You can watch the story HERE.

Polaris Project - Support their work in Chicago!

With a few clicks of your mouse you can join Polaris Project in helping the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE) win a much-deserved $20,000 grant to fund their new project, Engaging Young Men In Ending Violence Against Women.

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. We do building restoration projects and therapeutic arts with kids, teens and adults, to build relationships and to learn more about their needs, hopes and dreams, so that we can provide continuing and meaningful services throughout the year.

Read the full report from this year's trip. Also, check out the video from the trip (embedded at the end of the post)

Destiny - New opportunities for survivors

Destiny Productions in Calcutta, India is our initiative to help human trafficking survivors from four area shelters become fully independent, and to slavery-proof them and their children into the future. Click here to SEE DESTINY PRODUCTS