By Rocio Mora | Project Leader
Hello dear GlobalGiving friends.
These last four months, APRAMP workers have developed a hard, important and intense work for all those who need us more than anyone. Let's talk about it!
As you all know, the global pandemic that we have been suffering for a year now has had a special impact on the women we work with. In the midst of this global upheaval, people who have always been invisible are once again left out: women and girls who are victims of trafficking, sexual exploitation and prostitution.
During the COVID-19 alarm period and forced confinement, the dynamics of the spaces where women were forced into prostitution changed significantly. Prostitution venues, clubs and premises were closed and women were forced to move to other places.
The confinement measures adopted in the first months, and the sanitary measures recommended after the end of the State of Alarm, are practically impossible to apply to this group. Because of their isolation and invisibility, and because they are forced to engage in sexual practices where social distancing and the use of masks are impossible to apply.
In general terms, the contexts of prostitution are more precarious and the users are in situations of maximum vulnerability, with higher debts, increased rental fees and areas of exercise.
During these months we have focused on providing comprehensive assistance to this group, which includes: social, health, legal, psychological, training, employment, housing, etc.
The work developed by the Mobile Unit has intensified, adapting at all times to the reality and needs of women, in terms of schedules or responses to the situations they raise.
Likewise, we have urged the competent authorities to implement the necessary measures and strategies, within the area of their competence. To this end, we have held coordination meetings with the people in charge of each Autonomous Community where APRAMP is present for the management and/or referral of housing resources.
In the same way, we have been especially focus in the media, denouncing the precarious situation in which the victims continue, the consequences in which the COVID-19 has derived for them, and showing the work that from APRAMP we manage to develop with their reinsertion through the jobs to which they have access here.
Thank you very much to all of you for being here and for supporting us in this necessary fight.
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