The Women Like Us Foundation is dedicated to encouraging, empowering and engaging women and girls to make a difference globally and locally.
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Catt Sadler of E! News International Spokesperson
Women Like Us Foundation
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Our 2012 Campaign...fighting human trafficking
and child prostitution.
We're commited to doing our part for making a difference in this horrible crime. From providing much needed funds to help create awareness to supporting programs for protecting girls to supporting appropriate legislation, we need your help. Learn more and DONATE here!
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Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign
Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution
Fundraising Event
The Women Like Us Foundation is proud to announce The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution, our current effort to save children from sex trafficking. Our nine-month initiative will culminate with our Annual Afternoon Tea and Speaker Series, on October 18, 2012, featuring two pioneers of children's rights.
Keynote Speaker Somaly Mam
Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2009 and a CNN Hero.
Somaly Mam is the founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation envisioning a world where women and children are safe from slavery. She was born to an impoverished tribal minority family in Cambodia-- a family that resorted to desperate means to survive. A man who posed as her grandfather sold Somaly into sexual slavery. Forced to work in a brothel along with other children, Somaly was brutally tortured and raped on a daily basis. After witnessing the murder of her best friend, Somaly heroically escaped her captors and built a new life for herself. She vowed never to forget those left behind and has since dedicated her life to saving victims and empowering survivors.
Linda Smith is a former US congresswoman heading up an international effort to save children from being forced into prostitution through Shared Hope International which is an organization she founded that exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis. Her uncompromising belief in the value of every child has carried her from leadership in her home state to the halls of Congress, and ultimately to serving victims of sex trafficking around the world.
These two women have drastically different experiences, but they fight the same evil: the exploitation of our youth. Their stories embody the vision of The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution.
WLUF is proud to align our mission with the vision of these powerful women. Please join us as we launch The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution. You can support the cause by joining us as a partner.
Each ticket includes a copy of
Women Like Us Illuminating the World. Real Stories. Real Strategies.
by Linda Rendleman, MS with Sally Brown Bassett,PhD.
Cover art by N A Noel.
See Our Photos from 2011 Women Like Us Foundation Tea
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Will you consider our mission in your giving and DONATE to our foundation? It is through your donations that we can continue to grow and lead the way for women to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others.
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Global Projects 
Costa Rica
Carbon 1 is a small village two miles inland from Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica. It has about 300 inhabitants spread on a large area of about 1 square mile. The current primary school receives partial aid from the Government and, mainly, from the willingness of the principal/teacher as well as some of the parents of the children.
Women Like Us Foundation currently supplies all required school books and unforms for the 21 students enrolled in the school. We recently hired a teacher to teach English to the community which includes the school and the El Yue Women's Center.
India
Through humanitarian trips and fundraising efforts, Women Like Us Foundation supports children in Rishikesh, India with clothes, books, computer, educational programs and health services on a regular basis. It is through these initiatives that children are able to have the opportunity to work within their caste system to create change and improve conditions of their families.
Serbia
Hundreds of children in Serbia today are living in poverty. Women Like Us Foundation supports assists in providing nutrition and health programs through our volunteerism and humanitarian trips to this country. We work to raise funds for and support initiatives for better quality of life, especially for those children without parental care.
Uganda
The physical, emotional and spiritual well being of communities impacted by war, poverty and HIV/AIDS in Uganda is an important mission for Women Like Us Foundation. We raise funds and volunteer for a birthing center in rural Uganda which was opened in January 2011. Our goal is to continue supporting the efforts at the birthing center as well as the very needy New Hope School and Orphanage in Entebee,Uganda.
This year we travelled to Uganda with a group of 20 women and raised over $15K plus $5300 in in-kind donations.
Kenya
WLU N.A. Noel Preschool Chapter is dedicated to providing quality education, including tuition, uniforms, books, and a school, as well as meals and medical treatment to the children of Rusinga Island in Kenya, Africa.
Africa
The mission of Sound of Soweto is to provide annual funds for Soweto students to be able to attend a university to pursue the future they have dreamed about and change the cycle of poverty in their family and community.
Haiti
Women Like Us Foundation empowers children, with the help of their families and adult volunteers, to aid disadvantaged women and their families throughout the world. Our goal is to inspire, empower and engage kids and their families to have fund raising events to help provide resources for churches, schools and villages for impovershed areas around the world.
Through fundraising efforts in 2012 we sent approximately $5,000 to be used for developing cleaner water for the communities.
One Girl at a Time Programs
A WLUF One Girl at a Time Program is the outreach arm of Women Like Us Foundation. Our programs serve to educate and engage women and children to make a difference.
One Girl Award Program
One of the goals for Women Like Us Foundation is to raise funds for enrichment scholarships for girls. The scholarship would includes a mentoring program and a short-term international humanitarian trip.
Women Like Us Foundation acknowledges the need for better prepared and educated youth within our own communities. Through this program, these high school girls can become our partners and serve as future committed and engaged women in making a substantial difference in all of our futures. These participants will also realize that they can be good will ambassadors for the United States, while becoming culturally literate of the world in which they live.
Olivia's Cause 
Olivia's cause is dedicated to providing inspiration, support and awareness to teens on anti-bullying and teen suicide prevention. At 14 yrs old, Olivia's message, "It's OK to be Different", shows her teen audences that "You Can Be Great", whatever your challenges might be.
Hollywood Tween Mentoring Program
The mission of the WLUF Hollywood is to give at-risk, inner-city tween girls an opportune mentorship program that enables them to build confidence and seek out all realms of success. Women empower girls with interactive and enriching activities enabling them to develop their potential and blossom into Women Like Us.
Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign
Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution
The Women Like Us Foundation is proud to announce The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution, our current effort to save children from sex trafficking. Our nine-month initiative will culminate with our Annual Afternoon Tea and Speaker Series, on October 18, 2012, featuring two pioneers of children's rights.
Our fundraising dollars for Human Slavery will go to the following:
- Rescue
- Recovery
- Counseling
- Reintegration
- Eradication
Eradication efforts include raising global awareness of the cause through social media, the entertainment industry, celebrity voices,speaking engagements, and by promoting university and high school involvement.
RESCUE - Once victims have been identified, funding is used to have an investigative report completed and submitted to legal workers who engage the police and appropriate agencies, setting the legal process in motion.
RECOVERY - Once rescued, the victim is taken to a safe house. In addition to safety and protection, the center offer a medical and psychological assessment, evaluation of educational and social development, childcare, and legal assistance.
COUNSELING - A counselor is part of the safe houses. Other types of healing activities offered in centers include: yoga, traditional dance,meditation, and art therapy.
REINTEGRATION - After completing a comprehensive recovery process,survivors are ready to make the transition back into mainstream society as productive, thriving citizens.
Please DONATE to our campaign.
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PURCHASE A TABLE, BECOME A SPONSOR, JOIN US AT OUR FUNDRAISER EVENT ON OCTOBER 18, 2012
Keynote Speaker Somaly Mam
Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2009 and a CNN Hero.
Somaly Mam is the founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation envisioning a world where women and children are safe from slavery. She was born to an impoverished tribal minority family in Cambodia-- a family that resorted to desperate means to survive. A man who posed as her grandfather sold Somaly into sexual slavery. Forced to work in a brothel along with other children, Somaly was brutally tortured and raped on a daily basis. After witnessing the murder of her best friend, Somaly heroically escaped her captors and built a new life for herself. She vowed never to forget those left behind and has since dedicated her life to saving victims and empowering survivors.
Somaly will share her incredible story about her childhood and her fight for awareness and irradication of human trafficking and child prostitution.
Former Congresswoman Linda Smith
Shared Hope International
Linda Smith is a former US congresswoman heading up an international effort to save children from being forced into prostitution. Our other speaker is a former child sex slave from Cambodia who has devoted her life to saving other victims. Linda Smith is the founder of International an organization that exists to rescue and restore women and children in crisis. Her uncompromising belief in the value of every child has carried her from leadership in her home state to the halls of Congress, and ultimately to serving victims of sex trafficking around the world.
These two women have drastically different experiences, but they fight the same evil: the exploitation of our youth. Their stories embody the vision of The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution.
WLUF is proud to align our mission with the vision of these powerful women. Please join us as we launch The Women Like Us Foundation 2012 Campaign: Fighting Human Trafficking and Child Prostitution. You can support the cause by joining us as a partner.
EACH ATTENDEE RECEIVES A FREE COPY OF THE BOOK:
WOMEN LIKE US ILLUMINATING THE WORLD
by Linda Rendleman, MS with Sally Brown Bassett, PhD
Cover Art by N A Noel
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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the one we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
President, Barack Obama
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