Joining our list of CLC 2013 speakers is Sakia Wishart, who works in Amsterdam with the international anti-human trafficking NGO, Not For Sale Campaign. Personally, she began combating the issue of human trafficking in 2008 while living in South Africa. She has several areas of experience in taking action; from prevention and mass media awareness, to identification and intervention, to the designing of new futures for survivors of trafficking. She assisted in the founding of Not For Sale South Africa, at which time she ran the "Red Card Campaign," which focused on raising awareness about sex trafficking and the 2010 World Cup. She organized a country-wide "Stop Paying for Slavery" tour and, using the skills she learned through NFS training, her team went on to identify or assist with the cases of 52 victims of human trafficking. In 2012 Saskia moved to the Netherlands and is currently working in Amsterdam on an innovative social enterprise that seeks to empower vulnerable women through skills training that focuses on creating dignified employment for survivors of exploitation.
You can read about Saskia's work on the streets of Amsterdam in her article, below, that appeared in Issue 7 of the Eye See Magazine.
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