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Social Media Campaign for WDATIP

There was a time when behind these curtains was a kidnapped child. Most just fifteen years old. And forced to entertain up to twenty men a day. 

Until Justice and Care heard their cry for help. Now, these children are safe and being looked after. The only monsters they’re afraid of now are the ones in their storybooks.

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Beaten for retaliating. Beaten for not doing their job. Beaten for asking for a meal they haven’t had in days.

A victim of human trafficking is denied the most basic rights. Physically and psychologically abused and traumatised, they lose almost all their will to live. 

For every rescued victim who has faced unimaginable pain and suffering, Justice and Care provides them with the protection and intensive counselling and skill development support they need in order to rebuild their lives.

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The younger they are, the higher they can be sold for. 

Lured with promises of love, a better life, the dazzling world of a city, traffickers target young girls from different backgrounds and take them hundreds of miles away from their homes and families. To a life they cannot escape from. In far away unknown cities, where everyone around them speaks a new language. The girls are forced to entertain up to 20 men a day.

Justice and Care works with the local police and law enforcement officials to rescues these girls and helps the judiciary to ensure that the people that enslaved them are brought to account.

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People who saw it thought it was a low-budget hotel. People who saw it didn’t know that behind closed doors was a thriving sex trade. People who saw it didn’t know that young girls were kidnapped from their homes and brought here to be exploited countless times every day. 

But now, with the help of law enforcement officials and Justice and Care, this brothel will no longer be holding and selling children into sexual slavery. 

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Girls kidnapped for sex trade are caged birds. Never allowed to go out, there’s no difference between day and night. Many victims spend years in a brothel never knowing the amount of time that’s passed by.

Justice and Care works hard to restore their life with dedicated training programs and counselling that makes it easier for victims to rebuild their lives. Ensuring safe custody in a shelter home, individual care plans, ongoing medical care, trauma-focused counselling, education, recreation and skills development are just a few of the things we do to help with their rehabilitation.

Our specialist teams of aftercare members work tirelessly to ensure that the girls are safe and are provided with the support and care they require and to keep the simplest of promises we make to them.

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There was a time when the girl in the image didn't have paint-stained fingers. A time when she didn't smile or talk for days.

But now, with the help of our expert team of counsellors, we are able to give gave her the protection and rehabilitation she needed. Our work does not end when we rescue a child or victim, we provide individualised need-based protection and care to every survivor for as long as they need it.

What Justice and Care does for each one of these girls is giving her the empowerment of choice. She can now be what she chooses to be, and not what someone else forces her to be.

Help us, help them.

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"Now we can dream big, and aim high," says one of the girls from our rehabilitation programme.

For a girl who is a survivor of human trafficking, the future looks endlessly bleak and gloomy. Life ahead is going to be a struggle - an unrelenting fight in overcoming social stigma, and with no skill or qualification for a decent livelihood.

Justice and Care endeavours to help these victims of social injustice. Through classes in functional literacy, maths and communicative English, we help make it easier for them to get a better footing in the competitive world.

Having successfully completed the course of 90 days, a girl who couldn’t even write her name earlier, can now be heard singing a rhyme, confidently shouting out phrases in English, and doing basic arithmetic. Not to mention, surfing the internet for more information. Simple, but definitely a proud achievement for her.

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Social Media Campaign for WDATIP
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Social Media Campaign for WDATIP

A one week Facebook campaign created for Justice and Care to celebrate World Day against Trafficking in Persons. I used photographs I had taken Read More

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