All Posts in category: Pearl Alliance
Reintegration
After many months of monitoring, extended overnight family visits, and counseling, two girls from the transition were reintegrated home to their family on March 15, 2012. The SHE staff stood beside the girls—sisters aged 11 and 15—to celebrate the final step of their journey through
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Two paths merging
Sopheak and Ali are about to celebrate their two-month anniversary as husband and wife! We have loved watching their transition. This new season has led to increase in every area of their lives: Sopheak continues to teach, lead worship, and oversee Youth Aflame, IHSI’s youth service; while
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Learning to Lay Down Your Life…
Our friends Sokura and Nomi have been married for a little over three months. Sokura continues his work as a teacher and worship leader at In His Steps Cambodia. Nomi sews for Sak Saum at their home in Saang, which they share with Sokura’s parents. She is also preparing to open a small
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Sak Saum Advocate
You can be a voice that helps release trafficked women from shame and despair into a life of dignity, healing, and purpose. Through your faithful support, we’ve been able to partner with Sak Saum to build a vocational training center and sponsor 12 girls in receiving vocational training in
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Let Legacy Begin
The Groom Comes for the Bride… It was seven o’clock on a warm, hazy morning. Khmai wedding music and a sense of anticipation mingled in the air. Guests holding trays of fruit, meat, and other foods lined up along the dirt road. Leading the procession was the groom, Sopheak, and his
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Family Issues
Anti-trafficking work isn’t just about the initial rescue. It’s not as simple as getting a girl into a program or preventing the exploitation of a child for a season. Sustainable liberation requires a reshaping of the communities where exploitation occurs. It’s about mind-sets, customs,
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Interview with Sokura
We’ve been privileged to share the journey of Nomi and Sokura, a newlywed Cambodian couple whose wedding you helped fund a few months ago. This past weekend, Ginny at Sak Saum had the opportunity to sit down with Sokura and ask him a few questions: 1.How is married life so far? It is
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Checking in with the Newlyweds
Sokura and Nomi have been married for a little over a month now, and they are doing wonderfully! Here is an update from Ginny at Sak Saum: “We are thankful that we get to see them regularly and have been able to follow their initial journey as newlyweds. Sokura is still working for In
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Ali’s wedding fully funded
As we celebrate this season of love, we had the opportunity to position a beautiful young couple for a future of dignity and happiness together. We asked you to stand with us in providing a trafficking survivor named Ali and her fiancé, Sopheak, with the most beautiful wedding they could
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Thank you- from the transition home
Last year, Pearl Alliance had the privilege of partnering with She Rescue Home to establish a transition home for girls who had been rescued from human trafficking. Months later, here is a video update from the home. Thank you all for your support on this project!
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Set Free to Set Them Free: Devi’s Story
Devi (above, on left) was the first treasure that Ginny, the director of Sak Saum, discovered in Kuala Lumpur. They met during Sak Saum’s first trip to a Malaysian shelter that helps girls trafficked from Cambodia transition back home. For Ginny, it was love at first sight. Devi’s warmth,
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Reintegration of one 11-year-old girl
The new year ushers in a season of change at the She Transition Home. We are thrilled to share wonderful news of one 11-year-old girl who will be reintegrated into Cambodian society within a few days. This girl had a simple wish: to own and ride a bicycle for the first time. All her
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Her Prayer Answered
Nomi and Sokura first met through Nomi’s involvement in Saang, where Sokura lives and works for IHSI. Sokura is a teacher and worship leader for IHSI. Through Nomi’s involvement with IHSI’s church plant and her participation in staff meetings, Nomi and Sokura began to build a friendship.
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Breaking the cycle
Sak Saum first met Ali in 2008 when she was 19 years old. She found Sak Saum through one of our girls who had recently transitioned from a drop‐in ministry located in the red light district to Sak Saum’s full-time ministry. When she came for her interview, she was fearful, shutdown and
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Freed from a cage
When Sak Saum met Malise, she was 21 years old, orphaned, and in debt bondage at a local garment factory. As an orphan, she felt pressured to help provide for her siblings. When Malise’s brother pushed her to take out a loan to finance his business, she agreed. Once the garment factory held a
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