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"  Some guys play Xbox and fantasy football in their spare time; Jared Greenberg and Nicholas Lumpp save young women from sexual slavery in Southeast Asia. The 25-year-old Air Force Academy graduates are the founders of the Somaly Mam Foundation, a new nonprofit group named after a woman who escaped the brothels of Cambodia and now rescues enslaved girls. (Her remarkable memoir, The Road of Lost Innocence, hits bookstores this month.) We asked Greenberg, who works as a consultant by day, and Lumpp, who runs a personal-finance Website, about their heroic side job. MC: What sparked your interest in this? GREENBERG: I was studying in Russia during college, and I read an article about a local meat market where women were for sale \u2014 not for an hour or a night, but for the rest of their lives; they were being sold as slaves. I thought, Someday I&amp;#039;ll do something about that. Later, I had dinner with Nic and we decided: Why not do something now? So, we set a goal of raising $1 million. We&amp;#039;re more than halfway there; the money goes to helping rescued women and girls gain job skills. MC: How did you hear of Somaly Mam? GREENBERG: We came across her in our research and were amazed by how she&amp;#039;d gone from victim to leader. We e-mailed her \u2014 then got on a plane to Cambodia. MC: How did the girls in Somaly&amp;#039;s shelter react to you on your visit? GREENBERG: Because we were there with Somaly, they really welcomed us. In fact, Somaly wanted them to meet us so they could see that there are men who don&amp;#039;t want to rape them. MC: Describe what Somaly&amp;#039;s girls had been through. LUMPP: The brothel owners have brutal ways of making these girls submit. One girl had been kept in a cage for two years and beaten; Somaly warned us to be careful around her because now she hits men she meets. But eventually she warmed up to us. MC: How old were the girls you met? LUMPP: As young as 5, as old as 20. MC: How had they become sex slaves? LUMPP: Some parents get tricked; they think they&amp;#039;re sending their kids off to get a legitimate job. Others are so poor, they&amp;#039;ll flat-out sell their kids. MC: Do people ask you why men would want to get involved with this cause? GREENBERG: All the time. But this is not a &amp;quot;women&amp;#039;s issue.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s about human rights \u2014 slavery and freedom. I know where I stand when it comes to slavery. MC: How did you start the foundation? GREENBERG: We networked with supporters of this cause: Susan Sarandon, Daryl Hannah, Petra Nemcova, and the company LexisNexis, to name a few. MC: What can Marie Claire readers do? GREENBERG: They can go to our site, somaly.org, and donate $2 a month. If every reader did that, we&amp;#039;d raise millions overnight. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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