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September 18th, 2023

Creating Safe Harbours – Fall Gala 2023

Join us for an Unforgettable Dinner Cruise

Celebrating the Safe Harbours created through SA Global Network

Our Fall Gala is always full of inspiring stories, great people, and fantastic food. This year, we are also adding breathtaking views of the city skyline and the surrounding mountain ranges as we take to the water on a Harbour Cruise! If you are keen for a delicious meal, a stunning backdrop, and the opportunity to participate in the stories of Her Freedom, purchase your tickets today to come to our 10th Anniversary Fall Gala - Creating Safe Harbours!


When: Friday November 17th 2023

Time: Boarding time from 5:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Location: Bayshore West Marina, 450 Denman Street, Vancouver, BC


We desire to raise $100,000 through this elegant fundraising evening together, which will

Help sustain our current international programs and open up new doors of freedom in the Philippines.
Help us to develop other established program locations into training centres for their regions, such as Nepal and Greece.
Both of these areas of development and growth will allow the replicating ability and sustainability of the SA Program to be enhanced, and more women globally will be able to find refuge and healing from sex trafficking. Ultimately, we want to focus on training leaders and programs to be ready to respond to the urgent needs within their nations.

We can’t wait to see you and share this experience of creating ‘Safe Harbours’ together.

Early Bird - $140.00 (until October 17th)

Regular Ticket - $150.00

We can't wait to see you there!

https://www.safoundation.com/events/fall-gala-2023-creating-safe-harbours

September 5th, 2023

A little bit about launching a new program

A lot goes into launching a new program site! Before the first house is even rented, we have to build a team and prepare them for the work ahead.

The SA Foundation’s development process can take anywhere from 1-2 years before the women are welcomed into the program because well-trained and prepared leaders are critical to the program’s success. Few leaders have previous training or experience to equip them for this work, but they have a call from God and a passion to see women set free!

Our job at the foundation is spend time in mentoring and training them to do the work ahead. The Philippines team has been formed, with three key leaders, support staff and a house mom who is eagerly awaiting being able to build a home with the women! They have been participating in our spiritual development program, called the Formation of Servants, and are busy preparing for their onsite leadership assessment this coming February.

Stay tuned for regular updates!

August 22nd, 2023

August News

The Philippines welcomes tourists from all over the world to its magnificent landscapes and beaches. Visitors often remark on the warm welcome they receive from locals and marvel at the beauty of this country. Its dark underside is where over 100,000 young children and women are fed into the sex trade, either in the Philippines or trafficked to countries such as China, Japan, the Middle East, North America and Europe. There are few opportunities to escape, and fewer places to go for healing.

The SA development team is working closely with a dedicated team in Northern Luzon to plant the SA program model. Our timeline includes training, equipping and leadership assessment in 2023 and opening the first home, recovery program and offices in Fall of 2024. We are thrilled to have a second site in South Asia as the issue of exploitation is so widespread in this region.

August 19th, 2022

Genesis Vancouver Program Update

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Here is an update regarding our Genesis Vancouver Program. We are currently focusing on growing and expanding our job training program to women who have graduated from our Genesis Vancouver Program. Our Global Wonders division has many training opportunities, and we are excited this year to hire one of our graduates full-time through a partnership with Intersection Fair Trade! We want to give more skill development opportunities and to continue our ‘Follow Care’ with the women in the Vancouver area.

Over the 12 years that the Genesis Vancouver Program has been operating locally with the 1st stage house, many women have received life-changing services, made a clean break from their old lives, and rebuilt new ones for themselves and their children. Throughout its development, it maintained SA's standards and kept to a 70% or better success rate! Praise be to God!

The Genesis Vancouver Program never operated separately from the SA Foundation once the Foundation's leadership took it over from a local team who had founded it back in early 2007. When they left the organization, our team took it under their wings and operated it for these 12 years, with the same leaders managing international development simultaneously. Today, we have come to a crossroads and have needed to evaluate our resources and ability (human and otherwise) to manage a frontline program alongside our burgeoning international development. As a result, we have had to take the tough decision of putting the program on a 'hiatus' so we can evaluate and reshape the program and search for a local team of leaders who could take this ministry on and operate it with full support and training from the SA Foundation. We are committed to taking the next year to complete a full assessment of the needs of this program and to explore if God has a special team of people He calls to do the work. We value your prayers in finding such a team as we very much believe that the Genesis Vancouver Program provides vital services to young women in the lower mainland.

During this search for new leadership, we are focusing on continuing our relationship and providing training opportunities to the many women we served during those years as much as possible.

The SA Foundation's international programs are growing at a very rapid rate, with leadership assessments and new program openings happening in Italy, a reboot coming for the Budapest program, community development occurring in the Philippines and capacity building occurring with our teams in Germany, Greece and Nepal! A lot is happening, and we are so blessed to see so many women being rescued from situations of sexual trafficking around the world! We hope you will continue to support the SA vision and mission and pray with us for the relaunch of the local program under new leadership.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to let us know, as we value your input greatly. Please contact us using the following emails: carla@safoundation.com or steve@safoundation.com.

Sincerely,
The SA Foundation Leadership Team