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Sarah
Field Report – Spring 2022
I have just returned from a 3 week trip to India and Nepal. This was my first chance to visit India in over two years! It was a heart-opening experience that inspired many new ideas and insights. This past year has been a time of tremendous change and growth for HFC. We are all feeling … Read more
Summer 2021 Updates
Summer Newsletter 2021 After working in Kolkata for 13+ years, we finally have the opportunity to create a space large enough for all of the education, mental health and vocational programs we already offer, and some new ones we have only dreamed of. We are so excited! The new space is being made possible by … Read more
Nepal Update – Nov. 2021
Nepal Update – Nov. 2021 I just returned from several weeks in Nepal, working alongside Anjali Tamang at the new school that she has built – and that HFC is supporting – in her village. The work that Anjali, her husband Binod, and their growing team are doing is powerful and beautiful beyond my ability … Read more
Minu
A Beautiful Soul – Minu Last week we lost one of our own. Our Community Organizer Minu Chetri passed away from tuberculosis. TB is very common in red light area, where Minu lived for much of her life. Minu was a beautiful soul who brought light, hope and a much-needed sense of humor to everything. I first met … Read more
Spring 2020 at Her Future
COVID-19 Update India is in the midst of a strict, nationwide 40 Day lockdown. This means you cannot leave your home without police permission, even to buy food. Our families in the red light areas and slums live on daily wages: they did not have any food supplies before the lockdown, and they were going … Read more
How common is HIV/AIDS in India’s Red Light Areas?
How common is HIV/AIDS in India’s Red Light Areas? by Sarah Symons, Founder & Director, and Richa Gupta, Research Fellow One survivor who inspired the founding of Her Future was Anita, who I met at a shelter in Nepal in 2004. Anita had been trafficked from Nepal to India at age 12, soon after the death of her father. … Read more
The Role of Tech in Human Trafficking
The Role of Tech in Human Trafficking by Her Future Research Fellow Richa Gupta That technology has made our lives infinitely easier and miles more convenient is an indisputable fact; but with the good must come the bad—with the benefits must come the darkness. Technology is increasingly being employed and abused for the purposes of … Read more
Child Marriage in India
Child Marriage in India – Another Form of Human Trafficking. by Her Future Research Fellow Richa Gupta, Stanford University According to Girls Not Brides, India has the highest number of child brides in the world. The legal age for marriage is 18 for women and 21 for men—so child marriage occurs when people below these … Read more
Pain Won’t Be Her Only Story
Pain Won’t Be Her Only Story By Sarah Annay, Her Future Communications Director and creator of Vision for Empowerment workshops. We first started offering Vision for Empowerment workshops in 2015. What started as an employment exploration project has turned into something even more empowering—a workshop that gives young women and girls a voice in Kolkata, through … Read more