Liluye: Shift The Power

Hi Everyone, 

Hope you’re all doing well. I wanted to give an update about what Liluye’s been up to since our March post.

1.    At the beginning of this month, we launched our new Community Ambassador program. This program provides additional leadership to those who are invested in the Liluye online community. It’s a leadership opportunity for active and engaged Liluye community followers who aspire to help trafficking survivors feel safe, empowered, healed, and heard globally. Liluye Ambassadors increase human trafficking and brand awareness and generate organic followers, email subscribers, potential donors, and even potential volunteers. To learn more, and or to apply, visit: https://liluye.org/ambassadors-2/. **Please note this program is not affiliated with World Pulse.

2.    At the end of May, we sadly but proudly concluded The Thrive Tribe (TTT) online personal development and coaching program that was led, hosted, and facilitated by Emma Lees (our director of coaching and World Pulse member). Our final celebration honored the ten coachees, or survivor leaders, and their commitment to this seven-month program, but also all our dedicated volunteer mentors, psychologists, and featured program survivor speakers.

Throughout the journey, the group focused on reconnecting with themselves, developing self-compassion, and overcoming inner barriers. What several coachees described as their "second family" were originally total strangers. Some participants highlighted how the program and support from their mentors provided clarity in their work and business development, with two making significant progress in writing their books. Others shared how they found the program empowering, helping them rediscover their true essence.

For more information, funding opportunities to support a second cohort of this impactful program, or to get involved with any potential future cohorts, please private message me.

3.    We updated our Success Stories page to include recent, inspiring testimonials and imagery from our Thrive Tribe (TTT) program coachees. The Success Stories home page highlight image and the page itself feature Chylian Ify Azuh (our global migrant support expert and fellow World Pulse sister), her work, and organization, FRMNET. See our Success Stories page here: https://liluye.org/stories/

4.    We published a couple of powerful blog posts. One featuring the amazing Ronke Ojeikere, Founder of Society to Heighten Awareness of Women and Children Abuse (SOTHAWACA), Liluye partner, and fellow World Pulse sister. It highlights her 26 years of hard work that prioritizes advocating for improved education, healthcare, gender equality, and violence prevention through a structured approach and consistent efforts. The second post is the first from Aditi Chatterjee who is an independent researcher and guest blog post writer for us. She provided a powerful account of the harsh realities of sex trafficking in India from her own personal experiences of speaking to survivors. She drew from personal conversations, exposing the deception, loss of agency, and stigma endured by women and girls lured from villages in source locations with false job promises only to be sold into brothels in trafficking destinations. Read our blog posts here: https://liluye.org/blog/

5.    We gained one amazing new team member, Anoushka Bhandari, as our new Grant Researcher and Writer. 

6.    We attained four new impactful partners, Sierra Cares Foundation, Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), Brenna Wallace International Initiative (BWII), and Tafara Wellness Initiative. We now have 50 partners who share our vision and values, helping to elicit the most collective impact for women and girls globally, are open to collaboration, are helping to eradicate modern slavery, and that empower and sustain our people and planet. You can see our partner page here: https://liluye.org/partners/ 

Liluye is a global, collaborative community of trafficking survivors, allies, and workshops committed to empowering people. Currently, we provide PTSD trauma healing resources to our partners that are providing survivors with safe places to work, viable trades, living wages, agency training, and together, we provide holistic resources to help them heal, grow, and thrive. We strongly believe in the power of collaboration and believe the more collective efforts we can do to bring more awareness to trafficking, the more prevention work we can do, and the more resources we can provide survivors with to help them thrive, that it will #ShiftThePower from the traffickers to a freer, healthier world for everyone. Specifically, survivors need more economic empowerment opportunities, equal pay and to get paid for their work, legal representation, freedom from identity theft challenges, housing/shelters, holistic healing resources, as well as trust, empathy, and to be heard.

Thank you for reading my initiative update and sharing in our vision of collaboratively creating a better and safer world where all girls and women are safe, empowered, healed, and heard.

We are excited to create even more change, collaboration, and impact through our prevention, aftercare, and economic empowerment programs for those who are most marginalized, unseen, and unheard in 2024 and beyond. Together, we can create a more peaceful, joyful, and safe world.

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