AnnaLynne McCord, Shay Mitchell and Ashley Rickards invite you to join Somaly Mam – heroine, survivor of sex slavery and co-founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation – for the Los Angeles launch of PROJECT FUTURES global, a new platform for volunteers, activists and young professionals to ?ght trafficking and modern-day slavery.
The event takes place at the SLS Hotel Beverly Hills on July 23, and will include hors d’?uvres by Spanish chef Jos� Andr�s, an open bar, a silent auction and music by Chhom Nimol of the LA Cambodian pop band Dengue Fever.
Other hosts for the event include Emmanuelle Chriqui, Ron Livingston & Rosemary DeWitt and Laurie Holden.
The Somaly Mam Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the eradication of slavery worldwide, with a special focus on Southeast Asia, where the trafficking of women and girls is widespread. SMF supports survivor rescue, shelter, and restoration programs globally, as well as empowering survivors of slavery with job training and education. SMF’s awareness and advocacy campaigns shed light on the crime of human trafficking and involve governments and individuals in the fight against modern-day slavery.
SMF’s newest program, PROJECT FUTURES global, engages a generation of young professionals, students and activists in the fight. By using their talents skills and tapping into social media, this passionate network of volunteers can produce grassroots campaigns and events to raise awareness and funds for the cause.
PROJECT FUTURES was established as a non-profit organization in Sydney, Australia in 2009 by young activist Stephanie Lorenzo to raise awareness in the local and international community about the global issue of sexual exploitation and trafficking. The organization is run voluntarily by a network of young professionals dedicated to combating the illegal practice of sex trafficking. With a network of over 10,000 supporters and volunteers, PROJECT FUTURES has raised over AUD$320,000 for the Somaly Mam Foundation and has reached over 30,000 Australians through awareness initiatives.
In January of 2011, five of the Sydney team members flew to New York City in the darkest week of the winter to plan their partnership with SMF and their Young Professionals network. In the first meeting, the groups realized that they were mirror images of one another in how they started (one founder reading Somaly’s book) to how they planned their events (an events team with individual jobs and roles). From this week of brainstorms, conference calls, arguments, laughter and very little sleep came a plan for the SMF’s new volunteer activist program, entitled PROJECT FUTURES global. By merging the branding and best-practices of the Australian FUTURES platform with existing Young Professionals’ own network and events model, and the widsom of both groups for guidelines for grassroots events and activities, campaigns and media outreach, PROJECT FUTURES global empowers a passionate network of socially-engaged volunteers, activists, and young professionals to raise awareness and funding to combat human trafficking and sex slavery worldwide.
Tickets for the event are available here.
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