Mary Frances Bowley: Wellspring Living

[L-R: Mary Frances Bowley & Ed Outlaw, Rotary President]

Mary Frances Bowley, founder of Wellspring Living, spoke at a recent meeting of the Peachtree City Rotary Club.  Wellspring Living is a non-profit organization dedicated to confronting the issue of childhood sexual abuse and exploitation through awareness, training, and treatment programs for women and girls.   Bowley has been acknowledged as a leading voice in America on the fight against domestic sex-trafficking, which is one of the missions of Rotary International.

Mary Frances found herself working with marginalized women.  As a result of this work and the massive need it represented, she founded Wellspring Living in 2001.  She and volunteers began working with women who had been sexually abused or exploited as children. Today, Wellspring Living provides survivors with a recovery home and safe house, an education program and counseling for survivors, ages 12-25, of trafficking and those at risk both residentially and in a community-based program.