Norma Hotaling Awards

Dear Friend,

I am asking for your help in establishing the Norma Hotaling

Anti-Trafficking Awards, so named to honor her two decades of work
to abolish sex trafficking. It has been one year since she passed away.
Norma was a light and a leader who emerged from the darkest of places –
child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and drug addiction – to become an
inspiration to all who work to stop commercial sexual exploitation of
women and children.
Norma told her story in order to help people understand how
children are trafficked into prostitution, and how women become trapped
in a hopeless cycle of violence and exploitation. She described her entry
into prostitution when she was a teenager, her heroin addiction, which
numbed her against the prostitution, and again the prostitution, which fed
her heroin habit. She detailed the series of violent pimps and traffickers
who held her life hostage, from the time she was a child until she was in
her mid-thirties when she was able to beat her drug addiction and leave
prostitution behind.
Norma founded the SAGE Project (Standing Against Global Exploitation) in 1992 to help other
women who were facing the same ordeal. Her vision was to provide a place that would be a safe harbor for
those hurt on the streets. Her earliest innovation was her street outreach, a comprehensive set of services for
sexually exploited men and women, and exit strategies for those trapped in prostitution. She was also the first
to realize that we needed to address the demand side of sex trafficking in order to stop it and she created a
series of innovative projects aimed at men and boys. It is a tribute to Norma’s work that SAGE is still in
operation today, co-directed by Allen Wilson and Francine Braae, and it is recognized as the premier survivor-
centered service provider.
Please help us create the Norma Hotaling Awards – one for innovative work in shelter and service
providers and one for innovative work to curb demand. In this way we can honor and remember Norma and
support and recognize the work of abolitionists here and around the world. Our plan is to find 1,000 people
who will give $100 each. We have already raised $10,000 in small and medium size donations. Any
contribution would be greatly appreciated. Please go to our website: www.globalcenturion.org/donate to
donate directly to the campaign by pressing the Norma Hotaling donation button. Or, make your check out to
Global Centurion, earmarked “Norma Hotaling” and send it to the address below.

Sincerely yours,

Laura J. Lederer, J.D.

President, Global Centurion
1513 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20002
T 202 547 8172
F 202 547 8174
www.globalcenturion.org