Our Survivor Awareness Program is rooted in the belief that survivors are powerful agents of change. Through survivor collectives, we equip women with leadership skills, advocacy tools, and platforms to raise their voices and help end child sex trafficking.
Leadership & Advocacy Training
Survivors are trained in public speaking, policy advocacy, and media engagement, enabling them to share their stories with confidence while safeguarding their emotional well-being. They develop the skills to engage policymakers and work with businesses across sectors such as hospitality and wellness to prevent exploitation within their spaces. Survivors also learn to communicate effectively through interviews, storytelling, and digital platforms transforming lived experience into informed advocacy and action.
Mentorship & Survivor Support
Healing and leadership grow stronger in community. Survivor leaders mentor newly rescued women, offering guidance, encouragement, and lived wisdom. Support groups and healing circles provide safe spaces to process experiences, build resilience, and move forward together. Survivors also gain professional and life skills, including financial literacy, career readiness, and personal empowerment.
Community Engagement
Survivors lead awareness efforts by speaking at schools, community centers, conferences, and public forums. Through social media and digital advocacy, they amplify survivor voices and educate the public. Educational workshops are also conducted for law enforcement, educators, and service providers to strengthen identification, response, and survivor-centered care.
Policy & Legislative Action
Survivors play an active role in shaping systems and laws that affect their lives. They testify before legislators, serve on survivor advisory boards, and collaborate with policymakers—including CSW and other institutions, to influence survivor-centered policies. Survivors also lead campaigns for systemic change through petitions, advocacy initiatives, and public action.
Survivor-Led Research & Storytelling
Survivors contribute to research projects that improve anti-trafficking responses and inform best practices. Through writing, publishing, and survivor-led documentaries, they share their experiences to raise awareness, challenge stigma, and inspire action.
Sisterhood survivors lead prevention-focused awareness programs designed to protect vulnerable children and communities from exploitation. Drawing from lived experience, they create safe, relatable, and impactful learning spaces.
Survivors educate children, families, and communities on common offline trafficking methods, including false job offers, fake marriages, agents, neighbors, and known community networks (CNs) that exploit trust. Sessions focus on real-life scenarios, warning signs, and practical prevention strategies.
Survivor-led workshops build self-worth, boundaries, and consent awareness, helping children spot unsafe situations and adults prevent trafficking early.
The Survivor Conclave was a survivor-led gathering that brought together survivors from different states and across borders, creating a powerful space for connection, reflection, and collective leadership. Survivors participated not as beneficiaries, but as leaders, sharing lived experiences, shaping solutions, and strengthening long-term freedom. Throughout their journeys, survivors openly shared the realities of reintegration. Some spoke of families who supported them, while others faced pressure to marry as a way to “move on.” Many described the burden of judgment from their communities, the difficulty of securing safe housing due to stigma, and the challenges of finding dignified employment. Several survivors reported facing unsafe or abusive work environments, limited job options, and economic insecurity. Many were also unaware of their legal rights, government compensation, and the protections available to them, leaving them vulnerable even after escaping exploitation. By the end of the second day, survivors collectively developed solutions rooted in their own lived experiences for an supportive and effective rintegration solution model. These included supporting other survivors in accessing safe shelter through partner NGOs, creating pathways to education and sustainable employment, and building survivor-led mentorship networks. Survivors also committed to becoming advocates, guiding others, sharing information on rights and compensation, and offering peer support during reintegration. A key outcome of the conclave was the call to sensitize families, communities, stakeholders, and policymakers through trauma-informed approaches. The conclave transformed personal journeys into collective action, where healing became leadership, and leadership became lasting freedom.