Gender Equality United States Project #31361

Restoration Project Resource Center

by Restoration Project International

Project Report | Dec 19, 2019
Thank You For a Successful 2019

By Edith Okupa | Executive Director

Some of the Graduates of 12/2019 Computer Class

December 17, 2019

Dear Partner,

We appreciate your continued support and commitment to ensuring that our Restoration Project Resource Center keeps running. Because of your giving and support, we are able to impact our community, THANK YOU!

Through our SAFE (Survivor Awareness & First Encounter) Program, we educated over 50 community members on identifying trafficking, and assisting survivors, since we started less than a year ago. We have received more than 10 calls to assist survivors and referred 3 of these to our community partners for services. We now have a dedicated staff that assist survivors in navigating complex systems and filling out applications. Surveys from our SAFE events show that attendees, received new information, and gained new knowledge about trafficking and victims.

Up to date, our skills development program has produced 30 graduates from our Computer Introduction/Microsoft and Financial Literacy classes. We are preparing some of them to take our Business Coaching class specific to only survivors. All our classes in 2019 were held in our Resource Center. The last group of participants for 2019 will be receiving their certificate of completion today, 12/17/2019. It was emotionally exciting to hear them give “Presentations” during the last day of the computer class for 2019 which was 12/16/2019 (see attached picture). Without your support, we are unable to bring smiles to the faces of these women.

THANK YOU for helping us keep our resource center open. Your continued support will sustain our programs and help us provide more array of services to survivors under one platform. We gave our community the tools that equip them with helping survivors build resilience for sustainable restoration. Your contributions help us to provide awareness education also to high school students and their educators: protection and prevent from trafficking. Your partnership sustains our progress, so that our impacts are not restrained and diminished. An increased number of community members say they received more awareness about trafficking and how they can assist survivors. More survivors are receiving economic empowerment through our programs. We have secured two internships for our program participants.

Remember, there is power in numbers! Be a part of this change and transformation, donate to this good work today!

Please help us achieve the goal of bringing our women to an unimpaired state and provide tools for leadership roles in the fight against human trafficking.

You can also invite your family, friends and colleagues to support our Project at:
https://www.globalgiving.org/donate/27856/restoration-project-international/

Like us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/restorationpi/

Twitter at: https://twitter.com/restorproject

THANK YOU that we can count on you. To learn more about our work, please feel free to contact me at ookupa@restorationpi.org.

Sincerely,

Edith Okupa
Executive Director

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