Rescue and Empower Sex Trafficking Victims

Greetings old and new donors!

Here we are, once more, getting to share with all of you what APRAMP has been up to over the past 3 months through the project, Rescue and Empower Sex Trafficking Victims, which you all have contributed to. It’s so important to reiterate how grateful we are for your support but, most of all, how grateful the victims and survivors are for your generous donations. Each and every individual impacted by this project is able to begin a new life, and that is not a small thing for them.

The women and girls who APRAMP reaches have suffered in ways you could not and do not want to imagine. Sexually-exploited, physically and psychologically abused, forced to prostitute themselves long hours without a break or a day off, exposed to harsh rituals requiring them to pay a debt of over 50,000.00€, which in reality, never ends…The list goes on.

HOWEVER, because of YOUR help, these individuals have the chance to have a new life COMPLETELY FREE of exploitation, abuse, threats, and violence. Now, they have the chance to grow, receive education and professional training, and go after the dream they hoped to achieve making the initial decision to come to Europe.

In the last report, I mentioned 2 new underage girls who had recently been taken in by APRAMP after being rescued from their situation of human trafficking. Well, I am so happy to report that one of them has truly flourished in the last 3 months, and has expressed her interest in being part of the project and being trained as a social and cultural mediator. She said,

“I really want to help other girls and women who went through what I went through. They should know there is a way out, and I want to be the one to let them know!”

So, of course, she has begun the training program to learn how to rescue and empower other victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation!

We are so excited that she has taken the initiative and that she desires to help. She is a very smart young woman (she turned 18 in September!), and will be a very important member of the Rescue Mobile Unit. Of course, she is still in her own process of recovery. However, she is advancing quite rapidly, and her studies and training will be included in part of her process as she becomes more autonomous and ready for full insertion into the workforce.

That said, once again, on behalf of all of APRAMP and all of the women and girls we are able to help through the Mobile Rescue Unit and through this project, thank you for your financial support. Your donation is giving this young woman, and others, the materials she needs to receive the proper preparation and training so she can help rescue other women and girls suffering exploitation.

Never forget the importance of your financial support, and please help us to spread the work and keep raising money. Every dollar donated goes directly towards fulfilling the dreams of a beautiful girl or young woman.

On another note, check out our new campaign we launched in September, called #Exit. Survivors speak out about their experiences and the need for real opportunities. Here’s the version with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU7bs00YvV0&t=15s

THANK YOU!!!

Links:

• #Exit - English Subtitles

Greetings to our donors!

Once again we write to share with you the progress of our project, Rescue and Empower Sex Trafficking Victims, which you all have been so generous to support. Our organization believes strongly in the work we do, and every day we seek to put all of our efforts into making sure those women and girls who are being exploited and violated on a daily basis can receive the help and support they need in order to be rescued and freed from the terrible nightmare they are living. APRAMP, through this project and because of the money gifted to us by YOU, is able to do that. We say it in all of our reports, but I feel it is important you know, that every dollar (or pound) goes DIRECTLY towards rescuing and saving the lives of young girls and women.

In the past 3 months, APRAMP has been VERY busy supporting police in raids and detecting and identifying EVERY DAY women and girls who are being used and forced to have sexual relations with people for money - money that they never see. All of this work is done by the survivors who, through this project, which YOU support, are trained and educated in order to do so. On a daily basis, this team of brave and valiant women speak to and make contact with over 200 women and girls who are in possible situations of sex trafficking and exploitation.

Through their amazing work in detection and identification, APRAMP has taken in 2 under-aged girls who were rescued -through collaboration efforts with law enforcement- in the protective housing program. One is 16 years old, the other is 17. Both of these girls have suffered tremendously, but now, they are FREE because of the money YOU have given to help support this project.

The newest girl who joined our protective housing program, Tiffany, who is 16 years old, has flourished over the past month and has become the teenager she should be. When she first arrived, because of the trauma she had lived, she was always quite, she kept to herself, and she never had a smile on her face. BUT, TODAY she is smiling, developing the typical “teenager flare”, making jokes, and smiling. It is amazing to see the change in her. She is now FREE to be a child.

Once again, on behalf of all of APRAMP and all of the women and girls we are able to help through the Mobile Rescue Unit and through this project, thank you for your financial support.

APRAMP cannot stress enough how grateful we are for your support or how important your funds have been and are to us. That said, we still have a long way to go in our project. Please continue to spread the word to friends, family and co-workers so we can continue to rescue girls like Tiffany.

THANK YOU!!!

Links:

• APRAMP website
• APRAMP Facebook Account
• APRAMP Twitter Account