What a month! From day one, we have had such adventures and experiences. From sari clad puja pandal hopping, prepping and serving multiple lunches for 25 American guests, prepping and serving food for 100 guests at the inauguration ceremony for the HFC training center and sending the ladies on a three day Baking Adventure; it … Read more
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
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
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
How to Move Forward When All Seems Lost Last month, I visited our projects in India and Nepal for three weeks. As always, I was awestruck by the courage and resilience of survivors. Here are just a few of the remarkable women and children I got to spend time with… SARITA: At the age of 14, … Read more
Progress! In the anti-trafficking field, we have a lot to celebrate. When I first got involved in this issue 15 years ago, public awareness as well as government response were low to non-existent. When I first told my friends I was starting an agency to fight human trafficking, most didn’t know what those words meant. “You … Read more
Why India and Nepal? The latest report from the UN estimates that there are over 40 million slaves in the world today. 40% of the world’s slavery is concentrated in South Asia. This same region has the highest rates of child labor, child marriage and other severe problems affecting women and girls. Why India? India is caught between the developed and … Read more
Otherizing It troubles me that so many posters and campaigns about sex trafficking in the US depict a slender white girl with long, straight, blonde hair. The reality is that 77% of victims in human trafficking incidents reported in the U.S. are people of color. (Bureau of Justice Statistics Report). Of course, people of each and … Read more