Who are we
PROJECT
FUTURES
Transforming the lives of women and girls impacted by modern slavery, sexual abuse and sex trafficking in Australia and Cambodia.
Who are we
PROJECT
FUTURES
Transforming the lives of women and girls impacted by modern slavery, sexual abuse and sex trafficking in Australia and Cambodia.
Project Futures is an Australian non-for-profit organisation that connects people to the issue of modern slavery, sexual abuse and sex trafficking of women and children. We raise vital funds that goes towards services that rehabilitate, support and empower survivors.
What is modern slavery and Sex trafficking?
Modern slavery occurs when a person cannot refuse, or leave a situation because of physical threats, violence, psychological coercion, abuse of power or deception.
It refers to one person possessing or controlling another in such a way as to significantly deprive them of their personal freedom with the intention of exploiting that person for use, profit, transfer or disposal.
Sexual slavery is a type of modern slavery in which mostly women and girls are forced through fraud or coercion to perform commercial sex.
40.3 MILLION people*
In modern slavery
4.4 out of 1,000*
Children in the world are victims of modern slavery
human trafficking is the 3rd most profitable crime industry**
*Source: Global Estimates of Modern Slavery (2017), Alliance
**Source: The World Counts (2020)
Impact Partners
IMPACT PARTNER
We partner with service providers in the Asia Pacific region in three key areas; prevention, support services and empowerment.
Impact Partners
IMPACT PARTNER
We partner with service providers in the Asia Pacific region in three key areas; prevention, support services and empowerment.
OUR funding is targeted to the following 3 key areas
Cambodia
cambodia
Cambodia remains a source and destination country for exploitation of women and children, including forced marriage, trafficking for marriage, commercial sexual exploitation and orphanage tourism. Over 260000 of Cambodia’s 16 million people are trapped in modern slavery.
Project Futures main beneficiary partner in Cambodia is AFESIP. Project Futures has a special and a longstanding relationship with AFESIP, where we have a deep understanding of their work and where the funding and donations are directed.
Cambodia
cambodia
Cambodia remains a source and destination country for exploitation of women and children, including forced marriage, trafficking for marriage, commercial sexual exploitation and orphanage tourism. Over 260000 of Cambodia’s 16 million people are trapped in modern slavery.
Project Futures main beneficiary partner in Cambodia is AFESIP. Project Futures has a special and a longstanding relationship with AFESIP, where we have a deep understanding of their work and where the funding and donations are directed.
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.