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Gift of Empowerment for a Slavery Survivor |
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As an alternative to traditional gift-giving, you can make a donation in
honor of a loved one, and the recipient will receive a beautiful card
acknowledging and explaining the donation.
The Gift of Empowerment
pays a month's salary for a survivor in our Indian jewelry training
program, in which survivors are trained and employed in the highly
respected trade of silversmithing and jewelry design.
When survivors escape or are rescued from slavery, they need a lot of
support in order to reintegrate into society. Many families will not
accept them back, and in some cases it is not safe for girls to live at
home (if their families sold them in the first place). So for many
girls, a shelter is the safest place for them to stay immediately after
returning from their place of bondage.
Also, they can get services at a shelter, such as health care, education, job training, and legal aid.
But no one wants to spend her whole life in a shelter. After a few
years, most young women are ready to live independently, and want to
find work. Finding work is difficult for anyone in depressed economies;
it is more difficult for a slavery survivor because of prejudice, trauma
and limited education/literacy.
Our handicraft programs offer these survivors a job that enables them
to support themselves and live a meaningful, independent life. For
those still living at the shelter, handicrafts programs provide
therapeutic benefits, job training, literacy, social interaction, and a
stipend for part-time work.
Made By Survivors also provides an economic alternative to slavery and
exploitation for women and youth at high risk for being trafficked. We
work with existing prevention programs providing education and jobs that
help reduce or prevent slavery. In one example of a prevention program,
we provided funding for one of our partner programs in Thailand to
expand their handicrafts program to include mothers and the rest of the
community.
Often a wage as little as a hundred dollars a year is enough to keep
families from selling their daughters. Sadly, in some parts of the
world, girls are not intrinsically valued. But when women become
artisans, wage-earners, and business-owners, their status is greatly
enhanced in the community.
Made by Survivors partners with 15 anti-slavery shelters and prevention programs around the world,
including Thailand, Cambodia, Nepal, India, Ukraine, Uganda, and the United States. We visit and
communicate regularly with each of our partners, to ensure that our
ethical standards are met.
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