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PROGRESS REPORT
PROJECT FUTURES creates meaningful experiences that raise funds, educate and empower our generation to end
human trafficking. The funds we generate support projects in the Asia-Pacific region that work to prevent, support
and empower victims, survivors and those most at-risk of trafficking and exploitation.
Our current impact partners are AFESIP Cambodia, Cambodian Childrens Trust, The Salvation Armys Trafficking
and Slavery Safe House and Child Wise.

THE POWER OF PERSEVERENCE

PREVENTION
Education and access to basics like food,
water, shelter and healthcare will lead to
higher earning capacity and standards of
living, thereby reducing the elements that
make people vulnerable to exploitation.

SU PP ORT SERVICES
Safe accommodation, rehabilitation services
and legal support helps victims to build
confidence,
enhance their physical and
mental well-being and allow them to develop
positive healthy relationships.

AFESIP Cambodia has been PROJECT FUTURES longest standing

partner. Since 2009, we have donated over $1.28 million to help
shelter and rehabilitate the young women and girls who fall
victim to sexual violence and exploitation every year.

One of those women is Nora; a young woman we have had the

pleasure to meet, support and see thrive at university. This year
she graduated with a Bachelor in Psychology from the Royal
Phnom Penh University.
You can watch her story (and ours) HERE.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
EM P OWERM ENT
Access to vocational training, tertiary
education and employment opportunities
leads to economic independence and reduces
vulnerabilities to repeat exploitation.
In Australia, advocacy is key to empowering
communities to take action.

SNAPSHOT*
57 people accommodated and
90 active reintegration cases in
progress at AFESIP Cambodia

Cambodian Childrens Trust (CCT) is a community development

organisation with a holistic model of programs and services
that enable vulnerable children in the province of Battambang
to break free from the intergenerational cycle of poverty, while
promoting family preservation and reintegration.
CCTs Foster Care Program currently provides care,
accommodation and support to 25 children (across five foster
homes) who are currently unable to live with their parents or
other biological family members.
Thanks to support from our Platinum Partner Massland Property
Group, three out of five of these homes are being renovated to
ensure CCTs high standards for foster care are maintained.
The good news is that they are currently half way through the
second build.

46 people supported by The

Salvation Armys Safe House, of
which 8 were minors experiencing
(or at risk of) forced marriage
More than 59,000 nutritious meals
were served at CCTs community
youth centres and pre-school
13 schools confirmed to participate
in Child Wises Personal Safety
Program
* Figures based on January - June 2016 reporting

Original Top Room

Original Wall

New front of house

New toilet & shower

Room #1

Foster Parents

STORY TELLING
Kim and Nhel have been foster carers for CCT for over six years.
They have provided short and long-term foster care for teenage girls
overcoming trauma, some of whom lived with chronic illness.
These devoted foster parents have also provided years of consistent parenting
to Vanny* - a little boy who came into their care so developmentally delayed
that he was expected never to walk or talk, and at three and a half years old,
had never sat up. After years of home physio, encouragement, stimulation and
nutrition from his foster parents, Vanny is now walking and has just completed
his first day of Grade 1 at public school!
Vannys story is extremely important, as children with disabilities are often
considered unsuitable for foster care, and are targets for traffickers who may
use them to beg however this story shows how with support, every child can
grow up safe and loved in a family.
And the best part? Kim and Nhel have decided to legally adopt Vanny and
his older sister as soon as local adoption procedures are fully operational in
Cambodia meaning they have a family for life!
In order to provide round-the-clock care for the children they have nurtured,
Kim and Nhel have been living full-time in houses rented by CCT, away from
their own land, home and neighbors (including extended family).
The reason why Kim and Nhels house couldnt be used as a foster home, is
that it doesnt meet CCTs minimum standards for foster care placement. It is
an extremely basic one-room home on posts, which is severely weathered and
comprised largely of scrap iron and perished wood that would not be able to
withstand monsoon season.
The new home is located central to Battambang City, making it easy for the
children to attend public school and CCTs Community Youth Centres, and for
the family to access medical outreach and social work support by CCT.
Construction of the home is now at approximately 30% and is should be
completed by the end of December 2016.

SLAVERY IN AUSTRALIA
REPORTING IS LOW.
AWARENESS IS LOW.

4,300
ONLY

PEOPL E ENS L AVED* *

469 INDIVIDUA LS INVESTIGATED

7-DAY CAMBODIA IMMERSION TRIP

J U LY 2017

If our traditional 400km cycle across Cambodia is not

your thing, but youre keen to learn, travel and have fun,
our NEW Cambodia Immersion Trip is for you!
You will visit Angkor Wat and the Killing Fields, ride on
the infamous bamboo train, partake in traditional cooking
classes, visit projects supported by PROJECT FUTURES
and engage with various social enterprises and not for
profit organisations to learn about the growing issue of
human trafficking and exploitation.

O R A S S ES S ED S INCE 2004

41 NE W INVESTIGATIONS OF FO RCED
MA R R IAGE IN 2014-1 5 IN AUSTR A LIA
W ITH

80%

OF VICTIMS

UNDER THE AGE OF

** Global Slavery Index 2016, Walk Free

18

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