REINTEGRATION

This project is intended to build the capacity of organizations to provide psychological and occupational rehabilitation and social reintegration to victims of trafficking, child prostitution or sexual abuse, and those who want to leave prostitution.

Initial activities will document and assess existing programmes and research worldwide in order to develop strategies to address the needs of Nepali girls and women who have been repatriated from the brothels of India, and those conducting sex work in Nepal. These will include:

• psychological and social counseling;
• occupational rehabilitation, training, job placement and product marketing;
• protective and supportive living situations; and
• outreach support/contact mechanisms for those who ‘return to the world’.
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TRAFFICKING RESEARCH

This project is intended to assist research organizations, trafficking prevention organizations, government programmes, and international partners to generate an essential body of information about trafficking, child prostitution and forced sex work, to assess information needs, and to utilize data in order to design and implement interventions to prevent trafficking and child prostitution.                                         

Initial activities will focus on analyzing existing research directed at trafficking for prostitution in South Asia, on identifying and analyzing models of similar research in Europe, Southeast Asia and Latin America, and on developing research methodologies appropriate to the South Asian setting.                                                       
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THE YOUTH AWARENESS INITIATIVE

The Youth Awareness Initiative is an awareness campaign which will be conducted in the major cities of five countries of Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka using youth participation, public ‘awareness events’, mobilized support of the entertainment media, and multimedia communication tools.

This project is intended to support the process of ‘breaking the silence’ on the powerful forces within the family and community – including domestic abuse, premarital relationships, gender violence and traditional-modern conflicts – that put young people at exceptional risk of trafficking, sexual abuse and HIV/AIDS, and to motivate parents, youth, the public and the media to openly discuss problems which alienate young people.

THE FALLEN ANGELS DISTRIBUTION PROJECT

The book Fallen Angels: The Sex Workers of South Asia is the result of a six-year project spanning five countries of South Asia, and is the creation of 20 writers and photographers from nine countries. The purpose of this book is to ‘put a human face’ on the sex workers of the subcontinent in order to encourage a personal, humanistic response to their problems. In this project, this advocacy book will be directly distributed to individuals, organizations and lawmakers across the world who can most effect change on behalf of victims of the sex industry.                      

The book will be also sold to individuals and organizations through Ray of Hope. Proceeds from the sale will be used to develop Nepal’s first on-going programme to train social workers/counselors to address the psychological needs of girls and women who have been ‘rescued’ or escaped from the brothels, or want to leave prostitution.