Prevent
The final phase of our process, the Prevent phase, focuses on strengthening a community's lack of tolerance for sex trafficking and forced prostitution. As the ministry of Project Rescue has become known and respected in North India and other ministry site cities, it is not uncommon for our outreach team to be confidentially notified by concerned villagers that a village family is in the process of negotiating the sale of a daughter to traffickers. In response to this, several initiatives have been developed:
Providing safe houses: Project Rescue's donor-funded Homes of Hope have been created with the goal of saving sex workers' young daughters from alife of forced prostitution. Getting the word out into the red-light district communities that daughters of brothel workers can be placed in aHome of Hope with the mother's permission, ensures a new life of opportunity for young girls destined to be the next generation of sexually exploited victims. Ongoing contact between the mother and childis facilitated for the benefit of both.
Conducting AIDS and sex trafficking awareness projects - Project Rescue in partnership with the Napali Community of Faith conducts community awareness projects to educate and warn families in high-risk geographical areas of the tragedies of girl-trafficking and AIDS. Several Communities of Hope have been established in Western Nepal, to:
- Bring adult awareness to the subject of forced prostitution
- Provide basic literacy training for girl children
- Provide medical services via our clinics
- Offer spiritual outreach to the local community.
Unfortunately, travel has been severely curtailed in these areas due to increased Maoist activity and political instability. Project Rescue prevention projects have had to be temporarily curtailed until conditions improve. Intervening and preventing the selling of young girls - Through careful negotiations, Project Rescue workers have been able to intervene and prevent the sale of numerous young girls into sexual slavery. By offering financial help to the impoverished parents and arranging to place their daughter in a Christian home, orphanage, ora local Home of Hope until more permanent arrangements can be made we have been able to redirect the course of many young girls' lives.
