Author Archives: Seema Naidoo

Human Trafficking and Smuggling of Ethiopian Nationals into South Africa

A number of individuals in Ethiopia are involved in illegal types of transnational migration, namely human trafficking and smuggling. Human trafficking, which is becoming an issue of global concern, is affecting Ethiopia significantly. However, little is known about the predisposing factors that subject people to illegal migration in a manner that makes them vulnerable to […]

Hope to Heal Foundation High Tea Gender Equality, Human Trafficking & Gender-Based Violence

Hope to Heal Foundation hosted a High Tea at the DaVinci Hotel in Sandton to empower men and women to be the forefront for Gender Equality and to end Human trafficking, Gender-Based Violence, and Child Abuse. With the upcoming Global Action for Freedom Summit and the National Hope for Freedom Campaign, Ms Naidoo is inviting […]

Hope to Heal Foundation is proud to present our Brand Ambassador, Mrs. South Africa 2021 Finalist, Patricia Vermeulen

Hope to Heal Foundation extends a warm welcome to Mrs South Africa 2021 finalist, Patricia Vermeulen on board as our Brand Ambassordor. Patricia Vermeulen, 36-year-old mother of two gorgeous girls and married to entrepreneur Chris Vermeulen for the 5 years, born and raised in the bright lights of Johannesburg and now live in the City […]

Action For Freedom World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

Human Trafficking is one of the fasted growing organised crimes in the world, affecting billions of lives and generating billions of dollars profit per annum. It is a serious crime and a grave violation of a person’s human rights and an egregious assault on its victims. Although Slavery was abolished in 18th Century, Modern-Day Slavery has […]

Businessman Raj Kundra, arrested for Allegedly producing pornographic Films.

Businessman Raj Kundra, husband of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, was arrested on Monday by the Mumbai police in a case related to the alleged creation of pornographic films and streaming them through a mobile app called “Hotshots”. Raj Kundra and his brother-in-law Pradeep Bakshi are the alleged masterminds of the international porn films racket perpetrated […]

National Human Trafficking Awareness Day – January 11

Seema Naidoo People are familiar of the slave trade many years ago but not many are aware that slavery to this day exists and in a much larger scale, whereby over 30 million people are trapped in modern-day slavery. Every year thousands more people are exploited by criminals, mainly women and children. Almost every country […]

Annual message from Seema Naidoo, Founder and CEO of the Hope to Heal Foundation

2020, A year that will go down in history, the COVID-19 Pandemic gripped the world and stopped it in its track. The cruelty of the global pandemic seems limitless, whereby so many lives are affected. To contain the spread of the virus State Leaders had to bring countries under lockdown.  Businesses hard hit by the […]