New Opportunities for Human Trafficking Survivors

Destiny Productions at the Thomas Clayton Center in Calcutta, India is TEN's newest initiative to help survivors become fully independent, and to slavery-proof them and their children into the future.

One of the biggest problems confronting the shelters that rehabilitate survivors is that the survivors have no place to go. They are often not welcome back in their own community, especially if they were sold into prostitution. Typically they were trafficked at a young age (average 11-12yrs) and have never lived independently. This not only means they don’t have good options for the survivors, but it also means that the shelters can't free up space to take in newly rescued survivors.

To assist survivors in reintegration, this summer, The Emancipation Network, in partnership with T.E.N. Charities, the Clayton family, and three of our shelter partner organizations, opened Destiny Productions at the Thomas Clayton Center in Calcutta, India. Destiny Productions is housed in a rented 3-story house in the Kasba neighborhood of Calcutta. Calcutta is a city of over 18 million people, near the Nepal border in Northwest India. Poverty and human trafficking are endemic there, but there are amazing anti-trafficking NGOs that we partner with in Calcutta.

Rescued survivors who have received several years of aftercare, education, and training at our partner shelters, will now be able to work at the new production center, and support themselves independently for the first time in their lives.

This is truly the last stop on these young womens' Underground Railroad journey. We need help to maintain this program. Please visit www.tencharities.org if you are interested in making a tax-deductible donation.

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