Our Cambodian Cycle Challenge

projectfuturesglobalchallenge — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:03:40 +0000

In February 2012, Sue Beer and Alison Price will embark on a grueling 500km, 11-day cycle challenge through Cambodia to help stop sexual slavery in SE Asia.

According to the U.N., trafficking is a $32 billion annual industry that ensnares about 2.5 million people around the world at any given time.

Girls as young as three years old are sold for as little as US$50. Pimps are sewing them up again so they can be sold as “virgins”. This is Sue and Alison’s drive to do what they’re doing. They will cycle over undulating terrain from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville to help put an end to slavery, and rescue and heal its survivors for the Somaly Mam Foundation.

Somaly Mam is a survivor of human trafficking after being sold into prostitution at the approximate age of 12. She doesn’t know her real name. She doesn’t her parents. She doesn’t know when she was born. Her foundation has saved more than 5,000 girls from the Cambodian brothels, but 30% of the girls commit suicide.

One of the reasons Alison and Sue are undertaking this challenge is because of this:

Sue and Alison each need to raise US$7500 for the Somaly Mam Foundation and they need your help.