The launch of the Somaly Mam Foundation in 2007, she has established a funding vehicle They also have the emotional and economic strength to face the future with hope. Under her leadership, AFESIP employsĪ holistic approach to ensure that victims not only escape their plight, but that (Agir Pour les Femmes en Situation Precaire). In 1996, Somaly Mam established a Cambodian non-governmental organization called AFESIP Her life to saving victims and empowering survivors. She vowed never to forget those left behind and has since dedicated Fearing the same fate, Mam heroically escaped her captors and set aboutīuilding a new life. One night she was made to watch as her best friend was viciously Her on an unimaginable path fraught with danger, desperation and, ultimately, triumph.įorced to work in a brothel alongside other children, Mam was brutally tortured and Of a wounded memory, she does not know who this man was to her. To this day, due to the passing of time and the unreliability Mam was sold into sexual slavery by a man who posedĪs her grandfather. This confluence of dire circumstances led to the unspeakable horrors With limited options as part of a severely marginalizedĮthnic group, and living in unimaginable despair, her family often resorted to desperate Born to a tribal minority family in the Mondulkiri province of Cambodia, Somaly Mamīegan life in extreme poverty.
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