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

Thanks Rosie and the team at Rosie Radio!

Submitted by Sarah Symons on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 13:57

Rosie O'Donnell and Sarah Symons discuss Human Trafficking I was on Rosie Radio with Rosie O'Donnell, and not only did I have a great time, but wow - Rosie's listeners really came through and supported Made By Survivors! After the show we have our best sales ever, we had 12 new children sponsored for school, scores of party sign ups and a huge jump in our facebook and mailing lists. So a big thanks to Rosie, her senior producer Deirdre and the entire crew. If you missed the show - we put the interview to pictures and you can hear/watch it here:

Sarah Symons talks Human Trafficking on Rosie O'Donnell from john berger on Vimeo.

UPCOMING EVENT - FREEDOMFEST Cape Cod, August 14

Submitted by Sarah Symons on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 16:29

Saturday August 14, 3-11 pm at Heritage Museum and Gardens 67 Grove Street, Sandwich MA. Come have fun, celebrate, listen to music -- and help stop Human Trafficking. This is a family fun event -- Kids under 14 get in free!!! Your advance ticket includes the following a raffle for one of Rob Surette's paintings, which typically sell for over $6,000. Rob Surette is an internationally-known master showman who’s life goal is to inspire and raise the consciousness of the world with his genius artistry. He has been profiled on The TODAY Show, Good Morning America and The OPRAH Winfrey Show.

Performing Artists at the event include Caravan of Thieves, Adam Hofmann Revival, Funktapuss, S ara Leketa, Jeff Conley, Roz Raskin and the Rice Cakes and Cape Cod African Dance and Drum Ensemble -

Personal Message to REDBOOK Readers

Submitted by Sarah Symons on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 16:44

Thanks for taking the step of coming to our website after reading about me in REDBOOK Magazine. I am truly honored to have been chosen as a REDBOOK hero! I am a REDBOOK reader too, because I love how the magazine focuses not just on how women look but on the beauty that is inside each one of us. Our survivors also possess deep inner beauty and courage, far greater than the damage and evil that has been done to them. They are the true heroes of our organization, and I thank you for caring enough to want to help them.

The quickest way you can help is to buy a survivor-made product, and spread the word every time you wear it. You can also make a donation to help support our many programs - the Destiny center in Calcutta, our new jewelry program, the Freedom School for former quarry slaves, jobs and education programs for survivors in Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Uganda and New York, clean water, aftercare and rescue. Believe me, we stretch every dollar, re-use every box, and keep overhead costs in the US to an absolute minimum so that every donation can go where it is needed most - to help people get free from slavery and remain slavery-free through empowerment and education.

The Evolution of a Made By Survivors Jewelry Program

Join us in following the creation of our new metalsmithing and jewelry manufacturing social enterprise for survivors of human trafficking in India! Though this blog you can follow our progress, the good and the bad, and learn how we create the programs that hire survivors of human trafficking. All this in our new blog - From Dust To Dazzle

India Site Visits and Volunteer Trip, Jan. 2010

Submitted by Sarah Symons on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 17:25

MEET OUR SURVIVORS AND INDIA STAFF - LEARN MORE ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND HOW WE FIGHT IT:

Each year we make site visits and take a team of volunteers to work with survivors and high risk kids at our partner shelters. We assess programs, and offer therapeutic art project to 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.