Sara Kang and the Somaly Mam Foundation

Sara Kang (IPE '10) is spending the fall semester raising money to fight human trafficking. She reports that she has raised $734.56 so far. Here is her story. Follow the links to learn how you can support this cause, too. Here is Sara's story in her own words.

The Somaly Mam Foundation is a foundation started by Somaly Mam herself in order to fight human trafficking in Southeast Asia and hopefully in the future, all over the world. I read her book during sophomore year and was touched by her courage and determination. Somaly was a former sex slave sold by her parents at a young age. This foundation is what she started after she found a way to escape.

I am taking a semester off from school to work as a server at a restaurant hoping to save all my tips and donate them before I return to UPS in the spring. I really encourage anyone who is a little bit interested in Somaly’s story as a sex slave in Cambodia who was brave and determined enough to escape the brothel she was confined to for a significant portion of her life to read her book, The Road of Lost Innocence: by Somaly Mam.