Helping Victims of Trafficking Restart their Lives

Writen by Nguyen Hai Anh – Victim Protection Project Coordinator, End Trafficking In Persons Programme

What support do victims of trafficking need most after they return home? This was the question facing participants at a July workshop in the northern province of Yen Bai. The attendees also discussed how an effective support network could be developed and promoted.
 
At the event were representatives from World Vision’s End Trafficking in Persons (ETIP) programme, Hagar International, the Centre for Women and Development’s Peaceful House Shelter Project and our other local partners.

The workshop discussions focussed on the members’ experiences of receiving trafficked victims, verifying their backgrounds, assisting them to plan the investment of grants to start their own businesses, and helping them integrate back into their respective communities.

The participants agreed that all relevant partners need to improve how they cooperate and share information to ensure trafficking victims successfully rejoin their communities in the long-term.

Representatives from Hagar and the Peaceful House Shelter Project, which provides direct support to trafficking victims, described the methods they have found effective and possibilities of working with ETIP in the near future to offer timely assistance.
 
The workshop also heard experiences and suggestions from former victims of trafficking that have received help from ETIP to restart their lives back home. The ETIP team will consider all the points raised at the meeting for their activities in the next few years.