S07 E07 Evelien Hölsken on Free A Girl

Mastering Agility

Summary
Evelien Hölsken, founder of the Free A GIrl Foundation, discusses her work to end sexual exploitation of children. She shares her journey from a commercial background to the nonprofit sector and explains how she was inspired to start her own foundation. Evelien discusses the challenges of fundraising and the need for transparency in the nonprofit sector. She also highlights the importance of education and prevention in combating child exploitation. Evelien shares heartbreaking stories of children trapped in the sex trade and the impact her foundation has had in rescuing and rehabilitating survivors. She emphasizes the need for continued efforts to bring justice to perpetrators and support survivors.
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Keywords
sexual exploitation, children, nonprofit sector, fundraising, transparency, education, prevention, rescue, rehabilitation, justice

Takeaways

• The Free A Girl Foundation works to end thesexual exploitation of children and has rescued almost 8,000 children so far.

• The foundation focuses on both rescue and rehabilitation, as well as prevention and raising awareness.

• There are challenges in fundraising, but transparency and personal connections with donors can help.

• The justice system needs improvement to ensure perpetrators are convicted and survivors feel safe to report cases.

• Education and prevention are crucial in combating child exploitation, and the foundation runs programs to empower survivors and educate communities.

• The foundation aims to continue its work until there is no more sexual exploitation of children.

Titles

• Empowering Survivors: Education and Awareness

• Challenges and Triumphs: Fundraising for a Nonprofit

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Sound Bites

• "The direct impact, the outputs, the results are the rescue of almost 8,000 children."

• "There's lots of impunity. So perpetrators are arrested, they are hardly convicted."

• "We educate survivors to become lawyers themselves, or judges, or prosecutors or other kind of professions that have to do with human rights."

Chapters

00:00Introduction and Background

08:04Rescue and Impact

21:32Empowering Survivors

25:26Fundraising and Awareness

33:37Call to Action

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Capitole

1. Introduction and Background (00:00:00)

2. Rescue and Impact (00:08:04)

3. Empowering Survivors (00:21:32)

4. Fundraising and Awareness (00:25:26)

5. Support the Cause (00:33:37)