Rescue and Empower Sex Trafficking Victims

Once again, we here at APRAMP, have the pleasure to update all of you, our generous donors, on the work we have been doing over the past 3 months and share with you the impact your support has had on the actual lives of women and girls who have suffered severe trauma. While these individuals have had extremely rough circumstances, YOU have helped transform them into SURVIVORS who are beginning a NEW life FREE of exploitation.

Our team at APRAMP is tremendously grateful for all of the support you all have shown over the past 3 months. Since our last report in October, we have raised an astounding $3,763.86. This is BY FAR more than we have ever received during the three month periods. This money has changed our work in ways you may not be able to imagine.

Due to the immense success in fundraising in the last period, APRAMP’s Rescue Mobile Unit, the group of recovered sex trafficking victims who have chosen and been trained to detect, identify and rescue others CURRENTLY being trafficking or exploited, has grown very quickly! The money raised has allowed us to finish the training process with 4 survivors and begin training with 3 victims who are currently receiving care from APRAMP and who are living in its protective housing and rehabilitation center.

We now have SEVEN new faces in the office – faces that have gone from emitting pain and sadness, to emitting hope and joy. The role these women play in APRAMP, as part of the Mobile Rescue Unit, is life-changing both for them and for the hundreds of girls and women who they will come into contact with on a DAILY basis, helping them to understand there is a way out.

One of our staff, who has witnessed first-hand the recovery process of all of these 7 new members of the Mobile Rescue Unit shared:

“Wow. I am truly in awe. It is incredible to see the changes in each and every one of these brave women. Seeing how their demeanor and personality change from the time they enter into contact with APRAMP until their incorporation into the Mobile Rescue Unit, it is as though they are almost two different people. It gives me pure joy to see how far each of them has come; it is actually my motivation. It is what keeps me going, and what gives me the fuel to continue working with such a heavy issue. A survivor’s smile released after so many years filled with fear, sadness and pain is one of the most precious sites I’ve ever seen”.

On behalf of all of the survivors who now can enjoy all of their rights, I say, thank you for your financial support. We greatly appreciate your donation and willingness to help support our project. Please pass on the information of the website: globalgiving.org, Project “Rescue and Empower Sex trafficking survivor”. We really want to reach our financial goal so we can continue to help change lives!

Again, we cannot say it enough...THANK YOU!!

In this report, we have the privilege of sharing that we have been able to, once more, help accompany a girl who has suffered such violence, exploitation, and trauma, and who has been identified as a victim of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation, in her recovery process, supporting her as she transforms into a SURVIVOR!

Earlier this year, Maria (for data protection purposes, this is a fictitious name) came into contact with APRAMP after being identified as a human trafficking victim. She was brought to Spain by her “boyfriend”, who she later discovered was just using her and who had simply been “preparing” her for what she was to find in Spain: being forced to work in prostitution. During this time, Maria was required to work long hours -no matter the weather conditions-, to do as the clients desired, and was given very little money to eat, receiving none of the earnings of the services she was obligated to give. She suffered physical, sexual and psychological violence and abuse on a daily basis, had little contact with the outside world other than the hours she was “working”, and was alone in a country where she didn’t know the language.

Once Maria began to come into contact with APRAMP’s Social Agents (the trafficking survivors trained by this very project), she began, as she describes, “to have more hope that there was a way out, and that the nightmare would end”. Little by little she began to have more confidence in these Social Agents, until one day she decided she wanted to come to the Care Center to receive help, as the Social Agents had informed her. So, Maria came to APRAMP’s Care Center, and began her recovery process. Months passed and Maria was doing so well in the training courses, was processing her trauma during therapy sessions, and most importantly, she began to dream again about the future.

Maria was recovering and learning fast, showing a lot of improvements and capabilities to work, so APRAMP was able to incorporate her into the Project “Survivors Rescuing Victims of Trafficking”, providing her the opportunity to be trained professionally to become a Social Agent. Thanks to the $115.00 we earned since our last report, Maria has been provided with all of the training material she will need over the next year to become a Social Agent and help rescue other girls like her who are going through exactly what she went through.

Maria is so excited to help others. She mentioned the other day to her new co-workers, “I cannot wait to help women just like you all helped me. I had lost hope, and once I met you guys, I knew there was still hope, even if it was just a little.”

On behalf of Maria and APRAMP, we appreciate your donation and willingness to help support our project. It truly makes a difference in the lives of women and girls who have suffered tremendously. Maria was rescued because of your commitment and dedication to rid society of the violence against women. So, THANK YOU!