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Lets celebrate, grieve and learn from 2023 at the SHE Rescue Home!

Welcome to 2024. We have some exciting new plans for the year including re-opening more of our programs in Cambodia and welcoming more new girls into the home!

But first lets celebrate, grieve and learn from 2023 at the SHE Rescue Home!

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15 years ago she was a child. Now she shares her story

A Legacy of 15 years! In March 2008, we opened the doors of the SHE Rescue Home. We have had the privilege of seeing those young girls grow up over the last 15 years. They are now in their 20’s building careers, starting families, finishing school, graduating from university. Some of them wanted to share their stories.

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Human Trafficking Report 2022: There are things to celebrate but many injustices still to fight

The annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report has been released for 2022. The report does an incredible job of showing the scope and response of human trafficking in the world. There are some things to celebrate. Unfortunately there is not much to celebrate in their annual analysis of Cambodia.

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IDs, schooling and the true cost of having your humanity erased

We welcomed a new girl into our SHE Rescue Home last month. She is only 11 years old. She hasn’t lived with her mother for years and can’t remember where her family lives. We know finding her family is important for her emotionally but it is also necessary for practical reasons. Without knowing where her family is or where she was born we cannot get her birth certificate or any official identification. She cannot attend school or officially/legally exist in Cambodia without ID.

Her social worker knows how difficult this process will be as finding a girl’s family has been struggling for previous girls in our care as well.

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We often say ‘together we can end human trafficking’. But how can we?

We often say ‘together we can end human trafficking.’ But how can we? The answer is to break the cycle of exploitation. There are several things that make people vulnerable to human trafficking - poverty, desperation, isolation. Anyone seeking to better their lives can fall into a traffickers trap.

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Incredible, supportive and brave families!

So often in our SHE Rescue Home we have girls being rescued from horrific circumstances made all the worse by parents, family members or family friends being the perpetrators, abusers, or victims themselves unable to protect their children. However, this year we have seen some incredible, supportive and brave families that have made an immense difference for their daughters that came into the SHE Rescue Home for safety.

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To succumb to the enormity of the problem is to fail the one

From day one, our work has proven not easy. We face challenges of a deep-rooted culture of shame that a young girl carries after sexual exploitation and the challenges of working with a developing legal system.

This season has taught us that there will always be a new challenge. No one saw the COVID-19 pandemic coming and if we’re honest, it’s another ‘enormity of the problem’.

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