Why I'm Doing It

Be a Voice for Justice

Will you join us in protecting, restoring, and empowering victims of injustice with Embers International?

From February 20 - March 1, 2025, Embers staff will be traveling to visit with our field team at Sahasee Embers in Mumbai, India. Each year, we visit Sahasee Embers to encourage our staff, assess our clients' progress, refine our programs, and cast a vision for the next season of our work.

We are seeking to raise $50,000 before our trip. All funds will go towards our programmatic initiatives at Sahasee Embers Center.

$25

Provides school enrollment fee for five children

$45

Provides food for one month for one of our clients pursuing an advanced degree

$200

Provides safe housing for one month for a survivor mother and her children

Sahasee Embers Center

Sahasee (“courageous” in Hindi) Embers Center is a haven serving women and children living in red-light districts in South Asia. Once a brothel, it now serves the community as a daycare center, emergency shelter, community center, legal aid clinic, and education center. For children born into brothels, Sahasee Embers Center is a safe place to rest, play, learn, and sleep, and for women trapped in sex trade, the center provides a caring community. Our Sahasee Embers children have a chance to experience a future filled with freedom and hope, and through our various programs, families have a chance to break free from generational violence and bondage. As the name Sahasee Embers implies, we see those whom our center serves as courageous little flames.

Our Programs

Trauma-Informed Counseling

Trauma- informed counseling is a special form of treatment for those who have experienced sexual abuse, trafficking, or other forms of violence. We partner with a local team of trained counselors who assess the trauma experienced by each survivor and formulate appropriate long-term treatment plans that promote physical, psychological and emotional restoration and empowerment.

Restore, Renew, Reintegrate for Multi-Generations

Trafficked victims, inevitably and tragically, give a legacy of exploitation to their children who are born into brothels. To stop this intergenerational exploitation and help them be reintegrated into the society, it requires a tailored, individualized case management approach (rather than a prescriptive program) that supports both generations for sustained freedom. R3G2 Project provides a holistic approach that addresses each survivor’s physical, psychological, familial, educational, and socio-economic needs as well as a case management team that consistently journeys with them in each step of their restoration, renewal, and reintegration towards intergenerational freedom and economic independence.

Legacy Education

Legacy Education is a blooming program that provides at-risk youths and the survivors of trafficking with access to higher education. Our model creates opportunities for them to become professionals, such as nurses, teachers, lawyers, technicians, and designers and to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty for themselves and their family. All of our Legacy Education students are the first generation to go to college in their family. Upon securing gainful employment, our Legacy Education graduates are invited to invest in the education of the next round of students, creating an enduring and generative legacy.

G.R.A.C.E. Initiative

The Generational Restoration and Children’s Education Initiative (“G.R.A.C.E. Initiative”) provides our Sahasee Embers children, born into brothels and/or living in a red-light district, with an opportunity to re-write their own destiny through access to proper education in private pre-primary, primary, and secondary schools. To support their school education, the G.R.A.C.E. Initiative also provides our children with after-school programs, counseling, nutrition, health checkups, and extracurricular activities. We are hopeful that through this generation-transforming opportunity, our children will be empowered to overcome the adversity into which they were born and become catalysts for change.