AFESIP CAMBODIA
PROJECT FUTURES has supported AFESIP Cambodia (AFESIP) since 2009 and is our longest standing beneficiary partner.
Weak law enforcement, corruption, grinding poverty and the fractured social institutions left by the country’s turbulent history has helped earn Cambodia an unwelcome reputation for child trafficking and sexual abuse. With approximately 18.6% of people living below the poverty line, access to education and safe employment opportunities can mean the difference between a person being “re-trafficked” into a life of servitude and one of long-term financial independence.
AFESIP seeks to care for and secure the rights of women and girls who have been victims, or are at-risk, of sexual slavery, exploitation and abuse by providing safe and secure housing, confidential psychological support, routine and emergency medical treatments, as well as professional legal assistance.
AFESIP also helps young girls enrol or return to school, employ reintegrated survivors into trades such as hairdressing and tailoring or gain scholarships to university, with many choosing to complete courses in Psychology, IT and Accounting at Universities.
Images by Tenille Salmon Soul Images as part of the 2018 THREADS OF HOPE project, seeing the publishing of our coffee table book. Every sale empowers victims.
Ongoing medical treatment and immunisations are delivered to those rescued by onsite AFESIP employees and professionals.
Extra curricular classes are provided to all those residing at the AFESIP centre, ensuring the opportunity achieve an education and financial independence in the future.
One of the key goals of AFESIP is to support the safe reintegration of victims back into communities. Repairing & empowering individuals but also their families and the Cambodian people.