Thursday Wkly Mtg: Robin Singer, Anti-trafficking

Join us to hear an update from Robin Singer of the Falmouth Rotary Club and to learn the latest on the club's current international project on Anti-Trafficking and the progress Her Future Coalition is making globally. This is an update related to a previous presentation with Anjali Tamang.

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Robin Singer is the vice-president of the Rotary Club of Falmouth, Cape Cod and on the Board of Directors.  She joined Rotary after retiring from teaching math at Sturgis Public Charter School in 2019.  She also spent 20 years at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where she was a research engineer.   

In 2006, while working, Robin also began volunteering for an NGO called Her Future Coalition, which has helped more than 5000 girls and young women who have been rescued from slavery in brothels or are at high risk of being trafficked. HFC provides shelter, vocational training, mental health services, and education, so that each girl or woman can become self-sustaining and realize her dreams.   

Robin has led the anti-trafficking subcommittee of the Falmouth Rotary Club as they have provided funding for Learning Centers in Nepal and India, provided a library at a hostel in Nepal with a Rotary Action Group Against Slavery (RAGAS) grant, and helped fund a shelter in the Newakot region of Nepal.  They are currently designing a solar power facility there with the help of the Environment and Sustainability Rotary Action Group, ESRAG, and they have developed and sustained an educational program over zoom, teaching English and math to at-risk girls.