Who We Are
The Somaly Mam Foundation is a nonprofit charity committed to ending modern day slavery in North America and around the world.
Human trafficking, a multi-billion dollar industry, is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world. With over two million women and children sold into sexual slavery each year, it is a global crisis that must be stopped. More resources are critically needed to support the rescue and rehabilitation of these young victims.
Founded by sexual slavery survivor, Somaly Mam, the foundation works to eradicate human trafficking, liberate its victims, and empower survivors so they can create and sustain lives of dignity. The foundation supports survivor rescue, shelter and rehabilitation programs globally with a special focus on Southeast Asia, where the trafficking of women and girls, some as young as five, is a widespread practice. The Somaly Mam Foundation also runs awareness and advocacy campaigns in North American and around the world that shed light on the crime of human trafficking and focus on getting the public and governments involved in the fight to abolish modern day slavery.
Our Vision: A world where women and children are safe from slavery.
Our Mission: To give victims and survivors a voice in their lives, liberate victims, end slavery, and empower survivors as they create and sustain lives of dignity.
Read more about how the Somaly Mam Foundation is helping to end human trafficking >>
Who We Are
- Who We Are
- About Somaly Mam
- Foundation History
- Profiles for Change
- Board of Directors
- Information Pack (pdf)
Somaly Mam is the Recipient of the First Roland Berger Human Dignity Award
The esteemed Human Dignity Award honors individuals and organizations that play a successful and exemplary role in promoting human dignity and advancing international understanding, tolerance and a free and peaceful society.
Somaly Mam's extraordinary personal strength and ongoing struggle for a just world where human beings are no longer enslaved and exploited, earned her the first Roland Berger Human Dignity Award in 2008. Her monetary award will go towards supporting the Somaly Mam Foundation's work.