About

The Blind Project is a collective of passionate individuals uniting together, leveraging our unique talents to empower women rescued out of the commercial sex trade in Southeast Asia.

The Issue

The problem is clear. Right now millions of women and children are enslaved and exploited in the multi-billion dollar commercial sex trade.

Victims of the commercial sex trade are treated like meaningless commodities. They are sold and bought, resold and bought again. Often times even when women are rescued, many fall back into the trade because of limited resources, scarce economic opportunities and/or social stigmas.

Contributing Factors

There are a number of key contributing factors luring and confining victims into situations of sexual exploitation in all its forms:

• Abject poverty
• Inadequate employment opportunities
• Limited or no education
• Political, social and economic instability
• Organized crime
• Family instability and disintegration
• Gender discrimination
• Domestic abuse and violence
• Social stigmas

Our Inaugural Approach

The Blind Project is creating a sustainable style brand called Biographe, for those exploited by the commercial sex trade.

Biographe promotes the holistic restoration of victims, teaches them marketable job skills in fashion design and production, and employs them in a positive work environment while earning a living wage.

We exist for each girl. To tell her story. To write her a new story.

We are biographers.

Our Partners

We partner with multiple established local aftercare facilities in Southeast Asia to meet the physical, social, emotional and economic needs of women at all points of the commercial sex trade spectrum, from trafficking to prostitution. No woman who wants to change her life is turned away*.

* If our partner organizations accept women who are victims of rape or domestic violence we will not discriminate by preventing these women from being beneficiaries of TBP services.

NightLight, Our Flagship Partner

NightLight is an international organization committed to addressing the complex issues surrounding trafficking and prostitution by catalyzing individual and community transformation. NightLight’s vision is to offer intervention to sexually exploited women and children, to enable them to discover their dignity, and to provide a program of holistic transformation, empowering them to live and work in their community.

NightLight’s mission is to build relationships and provide hope, intervention, rescue and assistance to women and children exploited in the sex industry by offering alternative employment, vocational opportunities, life-skills training and physical, emotional and spiritual development to women seeking freedom. NightLight builds support networks internationally to intervene and assist women, men and children whose lives are negatively impacted by the sex industry.

http://nightlightinternational.com/about