In October 2013, we proudly celebrated the opening of the Somaly Mam Beauty Salon, in partnership with the Estee Lauder Companies and AFESIP Cambodia. The salon provides survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation with the opportunity to learn world-class beauty skills and business operations training. This social enterprise offers the chance for survivors to become self-sufficient and empowered agents of change in Cambodia's growing economy, helping to move the needle and create a society that says “no more” to slavery and the oppression of women and girls.

To read more about our social enterprise in partnership with Estee Lauder, click here.

Goldman Sachs has shown its commitment to the anti-trafficking movement with various initiatives, from grants and funding to its 10,000 Women economic empowerment program. Goldman Sachs Gives was a major sponsor of the SMF’s 2012 and 2013 Galas. Dina Habib Powell, President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, was co-chair of the 2012 gala. In May 2013, Goldman Sachs Foundation invited the Somaly Mam Foundation to participate in an anti-trafficking conference at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; more info here.  

AFESIP Fair Fashion, co-founded by Somaly Mam and AFESIP, is now an independent entity dedicated to creating lines of survivor-made products and textiles.

AFF is a social enterprise that supports the empowerment and reintegration of women victims of trafficking, sexual exploitation, and physical abuse in Cambodia, to help them return to a normal life with economic independence. Victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation are among the most marginalised and neglected groups in Asian society. The primary objective at AFF is to help these vulnerable women through job creation, fair employment, enterprise and skills development as well as providing them with mental health counselling and medical care. Women in the AFF program produce high-quality products under the principles of fair trade, and profits from the sale of these products are reinvested into the program to help more women receive a second chance.

The Somaly Mam Foundation's Empowerment Store sources items from AFESIP Fair Fashion. 

To learn more, visit http://www.fairfashioncambodia.org/. 

The Made By Survivors Network is a U.S. based nonprofit organization that works internationally with survivors of slavery and human trafficking. Founded in 2005, their mission is to end slavery through economic empowerment and education, giving survivors and people at the highest risk the tools they need to build safe, independent, slavery-free lives.

MBSN currently operates programs in six countries, with a concentration of programming in India and Nepal. They offer job training and fairly paid employment to survivors, and provide intensive business development to support core programs and partners. They market and sell survivor-made products in the U.S. and also assist them in finding other buyers.

Beginning in April 2012, women in India from the Made By Survivors Network will be crafting the silver Somaly Mam Empowerment pendants sold on our Empowerment Store. We are honored to build this partnership and offer additional employment opportunities to these brave survivors. 

Sevenly is a social good platform for helping charities raise funding and social awareness to aid in today's pressing issues. Each campaign lasts a week, and a portion of sales benefits the charity of the week. 

The SMF has run three campaigns with Sevenly to date, where where $7 of each t-shirt sold goes directly towards ending sex slavery and empowering survivors. These campaigns have raised over $60,000 in all. 

To learn more, visit sevenly.org. 

The Half the Sky Movement is cutting across platforms to ignite the change needed to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide, the defining issue of our time. Inspired by journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book of the same name, Half the Sky brings together video, websites, games, blogs, and other educational tools to not only raise awareness of women's issues, but to also provide concrete steps to fight these problems and empower women.

Thorn partners with non-profits and academic institutions to gather new insights into the role technology plays in child sex trafficking, the creation and proliferation of child pornography, and the normalization of child sexual exploitation. They then go beyond insight to action to develop the tools, systems and approaches to help address these issues. in

In partnership with Polaris Project’s National Human Trafficking Resource Center, Salesforce Foundation and Twilio, Thorn created a text shortcode (BEFREE) to give victims a more discreet way to reach out for help while under the control of a pimp or trafficker. To visit their website, click here.