OUR MISSION
We prevent the exploitation of girls, by strengthening family and community systems to prioritise the safety and education of their children.

WHO ARE WE
Free To Shine is a child protection organisation that prevents school-aged girls being trafficked into the commercial sex industry in Cambodia. Free To Shine focus on strengthening family and community systems to prioritise the safety and education of their children. Founded in 2010, Free To Shine has secured the safety of more than 750 girls and their families across 59 rural villages.

ORIGIN STORY
In 2009 Free To Shine’s founder, Nicky Mih, spent a month in Cambodia with survivors of sex trafficking. “I asked this group of survivors how I could help, and I learned that the day they got rescued the traffickers didn’t go without a girl, they just went out to the rural villages and took a new young girl.

‘Nicky, go out to the rural villages, find the girls who aren’t in school and get them into school,’ they said. Not one of them had been in school when they were trafficked, and they told me that when a girl is rescued, the traffickers do not go without; instead they simply go out to the villages and find a new girl to take her place. They believed that if they had been in school they would have been safe…So that’s what we do.

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