Safe house project Tanzania is a national project dedicated to combating human trafficking and gender based-sexual violence in Tanzania. Our mission is to provides immediate safety, care, and rehabilitation for vulnerable children and adolescents who are survivors of abuse, neglect, exploitation, trafficking, or gender-based violence. Our vision is to have a safe place where victims and survivors of human trafficking can seek care and find opportunities to restore hope and transform their lives.
Every year, an estimated 300,000 children are victims of sex trafficking, 40% Are sold by a family member, 99% are never identified, 1% receive care, 80% of survivors end up being re-victimized if they have no safe place to go. The existing number of shelters is insufficient to accommodate the rising number of trafficking victims and survivors of violence in Tanzania. The Global report on Trafficking in persons 2024, shows that Human trafficking continues to target the vulnerable in East Africa.
Raise public awareness about the prevention and protection trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation and promoting strong family ties and community support. Building safe house for Protecting and reintegrating victims of trafficking in persons and survivors of gender-based violence in community. Monitoring and evaluating, the successes and challenges of the project and sharing to stakeholders to knowing what project has done in the community.
Safe house for protecting victims has been built and has begun to shelter 30 victims of human trafficking and survivors of sexual violence. Awareness has increased among 650 people about protecting and preventing human trafficking and gender-based violence, as well as promoting good family and community relationships. Community has start recognizing safe house as symbols of care, shifting norms around GBV, child protection, and human rights. And survivors have gained the livelihoods.
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