Miami Gardens, Florida — A South Florida woman who spent decades carrying the pain of childhood sexual abuse in silence has transformed her experience into a mission to protect others.
Tania Andre, founder of The Mavuno Project, is now working to educate communities about human trafficking while helping survivors find hope and a path forward.
For Andre, the journey from survivor to advocate was not something she planned. It emerged after years of keeping her own story hidden and eventually realizing that speaking about her experience could help others.
Breaking Years of Silence
Andre has openly shared that she was sexually abused at the age of 3 but did not tell others about it for many years. She said she feared that revealing what happened would change the way people viewed her family…