Posts in Reintegration
Lets celebrate, grieve and learn from 2023 at the SHE Rescue Home!

Welcome to 2024. We have some exciting new plans for the year including re-opening more of our programs in Cambodia and welcoming more new girls into the home!

But first lets celebrate, grieve and learn from 2023 at the SHE Rescue Home!

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15 years ago she was a child. Now she shares her story

A Legacy of 15 years! In March 2008, we opened the doors of the SHE Rescue Home. We have had the privilege of seeing those young girls grow up over the last 15 years. They are now in their 20’s building careers, starting families, finishing school, graduating from university. Some of them wanted to share their stories.

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IDs, schooling and the true cost of having your humanity erased

We welcomed a new girl into our SHE Rescue Home last month. She is only 11 years old. She hasn’t lived with her mother for years and can’t remember where her family lives. We know finding her family is important for her emotionally but it is also necessary for practical reasons. Without knowing where her family is or where she was born we cannot get her birth certificate or any official identification. She cannot attend school or officially/legally exist in Cambodia without ID.

Her social worker knows how difficult this process will be as finding a girl’s family has been struggling for previous girls in our care as well.

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Incredible, supportive and brave families!

So often in our SHE Rescue Home we have girls being rescued from horrific circumstances made all the worse by parents, family members or family friends being the perpetrators, abusers, or victims themselves unable to protect their children. However, this year we have seen some incredible, supportive and brave families that have made an immense difference for their daughters that came into the SHE Rescue Home for safety.

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New Careers

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

While very cliche, this thought quintessentially captures our mission. We can give money to those who need it. We can fundraise money, ask for cash donations; we can gather enough to provide for the vulnerable. But we don’t have a stash of purpose, of passion, of motivation and identity. That must be cultivated by the user.

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2020: The Year of the Harvest

This March is our 12th anniversary of rescuing girls from sexual exploitation and rehabilitating them in our SHE Rescue Home.

We have seen the immediate effects in so many lives as we bring girls out of very dark places into new light where they can be educated, loved upon and healed. But for the first time, we are starting to see the long-term effects of our work, now that the young girls who we rescued 12 years ago are living the futures they once hoped for.

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Sokhim's* Story

Sokhim’s* story is an amazing, heartbreaking, exciting and hopeful journey that beautifully encapsulates the heart of IT'S NOT OK Projects. There is nothing like seeing restoration brought to a girl’s life that was once filled with shame and hurt. Watching their eyes widen as they understand the beauty of their identity and their possibilities never gets old, and it’s a whole new and different journey with every girl.

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Closing Sokhim's* Case

Sokhim’s case will be closing soon. After coming to the SHE Rescue Home in 2014 she spent two years in our care before reintegrating. She is now thriving! Recently married, she is living in a house she and her husband paid for together, on a plot of land gifted to them by her Mother. She is also a mother to a beautiful 6-month-old baby boy. 

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Defeating All Odds

Sokha* arrived into the care of the SHE Rescue Home pregnant as a result of sexual exploitation.  Her perpetrator lived near to her family, and often threatened them to drop the court case. She arrived timid, unable to read or write, possessed little education, and was filled with hopelessness as an all too young, single mother-to-be. 

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