Project - Living with Dignity – Prevention of Trafficking of Women and Children

Project title: Living with Dignity – Prevention of Trafficking of Women and Children

Location: Lang Son Province

Donor: Australian Embassy

Project partners: Lang Son Women’s Union

Beneficiaries: Women and children

Duration: March 2008 to February 2009

Objective: Reduce trafficking in women and children through capacity building and prevention approach

Description: 

Trafficking in person, a social development and criminal issues, has violated basic human rights and directly affected the most vulnerable populations i.e. women and children, and seriously affected their dignity, heath and development opportunity. The project addresses these problems through major activities as follows:

• Building capacity for the provincial and district women’s union, relevant sectors and network of volunteers in trafficking prevention
• Implementation of communication activities to raise awareness and skills for human trafficking prevention for local people, especially for vulnerable women children. Communication activities are carried out through anti-trafficking clubs in, individual counseling by volunteers and community meeting. Innovative communication activities are also carried out in secondary and high schools.

Key achievements

Community-based activities

There are 5 main activities at commune level, i.e. village-based activities, club activities, and market/festival activities, summer activities for children and village-group activities. Details of community-based IEC activities are as followed:

School-based activities

School-based IEC activities were proposed to conduct in 5 targeted schools. However, after meetings with the PMB, Department of Education and school officials, 8 schools were selected instead of 5. The extended schools were recommended due to the fact that pupils of those schools are also from 4 targeted communes and under high risk of trafficking. The school officials were also trained at the 2 training courses to become school communication officers.

There are three main IEC activities for schools, i.e. Information and Education, Writing/ Drawing contest, and Performance competition on prevention of human trafficking.

See also: "User Manual propaganda against trafficking of people"