page_title: Agape International Missions
hierarchical_section_title: Agape International Missions
caption_attribution_description: English: A photograph of an interview between Don Brewster (left) and Benjamin Nolot (right) for the film Nefarious: Merchant of Souls.
context_page_description: Agape International Missions is a nonnonprofit, non-denominational, non-governmental organization working to rescue, restore, and reintegrate girls who are victims child sex trafficking in Cambodia. It has staff in California and Southeast Asia and carries out housing, education, health, employment, rehabilitation, and community care initiatives in Cambodia. The AIM Shop is a retail store that sells jewelry and other products made by survivors and supports the organization's initiatives. AIM received GuideStar USA, Inc.'s gold seal of transparency in 2019. Charity Navigator gave AIM the highest rating of 4 out of 4 stars and a score of 100 out of 100 for accountability & transparency.
  AIM has a SWAT team, authorized by the Cambodian government, that conducts investigations, raids brothels and indirect sex establishments, rescues sex trafficked victims, and arrests perpetrators alongside Cambodian law enforcement. AIM also rescues girls and women sex trafficked to China.
  Rescued victims are provided with support, education, employment opportunities, and more so they are well taken care of, heal from physical and psychological trauma, and do not end up in child prostitution again.
context_section_description: Agape International Missions (AIM) is a nonnonprofit, non-denominational, non-governmental organization working to rescue, restore, and reintegrate girls who are victims child sex trafficking in Cambodia. It has staff in California and Southeast Asia and carries out housing, education, health, employment, rehabilitation, and community care initiatives in Cambodia. The AIM Shop is a retail store that sells jewelry and other products made by survivors and supports the organization's initiatives. AIM received GuideStar USA, Inc.'s gold seal of transparency in 2019. Charity Navigator gave AIM the highest rating of 4 out of 4 stars and a score of 100 out of 100 for accountability & transparency. 
  AIM has a SWAT team, authorized by the Cambodian government, that conducts investigations, raids brothels and indirect sex establishments (i.e. beer gardens, massage parlours, salons, karaoke bars, retail spaces, and non-commercial sites), rescues sex trafficked victims, and arrests perpetrators alongside Cambodian law enforcement. AIM also rescues girls and women sex trafficked to China.
  Rescued victims are provided with support, education, employment opportunities, and more so they are well taken care of, heal from physical and psychological trauma, and do not end up in child prostitution again. 
  AIM was founded by Bridget and Don Brewster, a former pastor of Adventure Christian Church, in California in 1989 and began operations in Cambodia in 2006. The organization opened its first shelter and restoration center for former child sex slaves in the village of Svay Pak, Cambodia.
caption: CEO Don Brewster (left) being interviewed by filmmaker Benjamin Nolot (right) for the documentary Nefarious: Merchant of Souls
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