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Project "The prevention – effective counteraction of the
traffic of women and children"
Funded by: Foundation for Reform
in Local Government in partnership with Foundation Eco Community- operator
of Fund for NGOs –
Bulgaria
- FINANCIAL MECHANISM OF THE
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC SPACE
Duration: 8 months (
1st November, 2009
– 30th
June, 2010
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General Goal: To limit the risk
for trafficking of women and children from five municipalities from the
district of Veliko Tarnovo
Specific
goals):
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1. Enrichment of the knowledge of
children, young people and women in risk for their rights and building of
skills for counteraction to the ways for involving in traffic.
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2. Increasing of the capacity of the
specialists from the mass schools and institutions for working on the
prevention of the traffic of women and children.
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3. Increasing of the awareness and
sensitivity of the society on the problem of traffic of people and its
involving in specific activities on the problem.
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4. To achieve effective monitoring on the application and execution of
the Program of Center Maria for prevention from the traffic in the small
settlements of the district of Veliko Tarnovo.
5. To develop the capacity of Center Maria
in the management of projects with over district character in solving of
the important society problems.
Target groups:
Unemployed young women from
the small settlements of 5 municipalities in the district of Veliko Tarnovo;
Pedagogues, psychologists,
pedagogical advisors, social workers from schools and social institutions
in the municipalities of: Gorna Oriahovitsa, Lyaskovets, Polski Trambesh, Zlataritsa, Strazhitsa;
Children and youth aged from
10 to 18, trainees in the elementary and high schools of the five
municipalities;
Youth, raised and trained in
institutions from the district of Veliko Tarnovo.
Main activities:
1. Work meetings on the project in the
five municipalities from the district of Veliko Tarnovo.
2. Training on prevention from
the traffic of women and children in five municipalities from the district
of Veliko Tarnovo(Gorna Oriahovitsa, Lyaskovets, Polski Trambesh, Zlataritsa, Strazhitsa):
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Children and
youth from the elementary and high schools;
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Youth from
social institutions;
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Pedagogues,
pedagogical advisors, psychologists and social workers;
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Unemployed
young women.
1.
Informational
campaign.
2.
Final round table on the problems of traffic of people.
5. Internal monitoring on the activities of
the project
Expected results:
- We have trained 288 young people and professionals from institutions, students as well as unemployed women from 5 municipalities in the District of V. Turnovo in the prevention of traffic of women and children.
- Increased awareness of students in the public schools, also of youths from institutions and of women at risk about the potential threat of being involved in traffic.
- A prevention-training programme has been piloted in 9 public schools and 2 social institutions from 5 municipalities in V. Turnovo District.
- School and social institutions’ governing bodies from 3 municipalities in the V. Turnovo District have agreed to include classes on traffic prevention in their school agenda.
- An effective monitoring system on the work of traffic prevention in schools and social institutions has been established.
- In 5 municipalities in V. Turnovo District, we have established a network of professionals, coordinating the work on traffic prevention in the small towns of V. Turnovo District.
- There is increased level of public awareness on the problem of human trafficking; 5 radio shows have been broadcasted; there have been three publication in local and regional newspapers. There were published and distributed 3000 booklets, 150 posters, 600 brochures, updates of the internet site of Center “Maria.
- Increased influence of the Civil Society on local decision-making on current issues.
- Enhancing the professional and institutional capacity of Center Maria in managing projects with broader-than-District jurisdiction for addressing significant public issues.
Achieved goals:
- Heightened awareness of children from regular schools, youths, youths placed in institutional care and women at risk of the potential risks of human trafficking. We have built protection skills concerning the women and children trafficking in 271 children from regular schools, 33 children and youths placed in institutional care and 18 unemployed women from five municipalities in Veliko Turnovo district;
- Broadened and enhanced capacity of teachers and social workers through contemporary teaching instruments for traffic prevention of groups at risk - 28 professionals trained (teachers, pedagogic advisors, psychologists and social workers from the five municipalities) who work directly with children and youths.
- Heightened public awareness and sensitivity on human trafficking issues; publicity and transparency of the goals, the implementation and the achieved results from the project have been delivered, as well as the donor’s contribution – 5 publications in local press; published and distributed 3000 booklets, 600 brochures, 150 posters; created and broadcast video concerning prevention of women and children trafficking; 4 Center Maria webpage updates.
- Enhanced professional and institutional capacity of Center Maria for solving major public issues in cooperation with the local authorities, the state bodies and NGOs; enhanced civil society influence on taking decisions locally on pressing issues; established effective system for monitoring on traffic prevention; the local community’s involvement in the search of solutions to the problem by mobilizing the local resources for more effective and constant prevention work among the groups at risk; delivering of public and institutional assistance.
Conclusions:
The work for realizing the violence and the traffic of people as a violation of the human rights is not finished. The work on prevention from the violence shouldn’t be interrupted. It has to become one of the priorities for the work with children, because we are all aware that prevention is the best protection of children!
For the increasing of the effectiveness of the struggle against the traffic of people are needed much more efforts for the synchronization of the cooperation between the institutions and the organizations which work especially for child protection.
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