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Is trafficked victims’ reintegration a process or an outcome? This is the question asked by the authors of the third edition of La Strada EXPRESS, which was issued in April 2007. This edition is dedicated to one topic: the social reintegration and rehabilitation of victims of human trafficking. The authors, who are specialists at La Strada, have researched this topic in both theoretical and practical aspects. They first address problems of terminology, then profile the step-by-step stages of assistance to victims, assess principles and approaches recommended with regards to assistance provision, and discuss institutions that render the aforesaid assistance. . The authors also highlight various factors that influence reintegration success (including victims’ physical and psycological health, support networks consisting of family and friends, and overall community attitudes). In addition, they evaluate risk assessment and management related to reintegration.
At the conclusion of the publication, the authors focus on the importance of individuaized plans for victims’ reintegration and give precise suggestions and recommendations, based both on La Strada’s experiences over the course of five years and the practice of colleagues and partners actively associated with this topic. The entire text of the third edition of La Strada EXPRESS can be accessed via PDF format.


* This article was edited by Nola Theiss, director of Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships Inc, and Katie Marsico

Fifty prizes and honorable-mention awards for the most outstanding Internet resources implemented in the Republic of Moldova were recently presented within the framework of the Sixth Edition of the WebTop 2006 Contest. La Strada was among the prize winners at this event. The Web site www.lastrada.md was awarded a prize from the Simpals Company and an honorable mention in the category “Civil Society.” As stated in the certificate, “The Internet prize Simpals is awarded to the non-governmental organization ‘La Strada’ for its social contribution to counteracting human trafficking in the Republic of Moldova through [preventative] actions, assistance, and lobbying.”
A prize of 25,000 lei was awarded to companies and organizations that are promoting the Internet through Simpals projects, including www.999.md, www.play.md, www.point.md, www.forum.md, www.yea.md, www.gsm.md, www.joblist.md, and www.drive.md. This year’s contest involved 266 nominees in fourteen categories, including arts and culture, central public administration, education and science, civil society, business and economy, and online services or personal sites. The jury, which was comprised ot twenty-five judges from Germany, Russia, Romania, and the United States, awarded eleven first-place prizes, fourteen second-place prizes, nineteen third-place prizes, and three honorable mentions.
This event was hosted by the DNT Association and funded by the SOROS Foundation -Moldova from April 23 to April 30 in Chisinau. More information is available online at www.webtop.md.


* This article was edited by Nola Theiss, director of Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships Inc, and Katie Marsico

La Strada has recently offered the “Best Practices in the Field of Assistance to the Victims of Trafficking” in an edited version on a CD, thanks to the financial support of ICCO. The current edition is a compilation of the best practices in assistance provision to victims of trafficking, beginning with the procedure of identification and ending with the procedure of reintegration, as both are implemented by the Drop-in Center, a subdivision of La Strada.
The goal of the CD edition is to improve the quality of the services rendered by stakeholders involved in providing assistance to victims of trafficking (particularly by sharing their best accumulated practices). La Strada annually organizes national workshops on the best practices in assistance provision. The national workshop that was held in 2006 was the third event of this kind.
Multilateral approaches to providing assistance and social protection to victims (in psychological, social, and legal capacities) and the analysis of challenges and difficulties therein allowed the organizations that participated in the workshops to integrate their accumulated experiences in the aforementioned CD. The authors of the articles on the CD, working for non-governmental organizations, hope that this information will be useful for specialists offering social protection to victims of all ages who have suffered severe abuses (including trafficking) and are looking forward to further collaboration with those for whom this material was initially designed.


* This article was edited by Nola Theiss, director of Human Trafficking Awareness Partnerships Inc, and Katie Marsico

“What can you do?” was the title of the regional seminar for volunteers carried out during the period of December 5-8 by the International Center “La Strada”. This seminar closed the series of many far-reaching actions conducted by the Center in 2006. The workshop was organized in the framework of the project “Strengthening the regional interaction to counteract the trafficking in human beings”, with the financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. It brought together 23 volunteers and 13 coordinators from 17 anti-traffic organizations that represented 4 states: Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine. It was the first seminar that was conducted at such a level in Moldova. The organizers of the workshop had the objective to promote a more active exchange of good practices, experience, lessons learned in the field of human trafficking prevention.
“The researches that have been conducted within the field during several years show that trafficking in human beings is a dynamic process, where the criminal groups are permanently improving their “activity” that is oriented towards the extortion of fabulous profits at the expense of the mutilated destinies of some innocent persons, in response to more and more active counteracting actions that are carried out by the state structures and civil society,” stated Daniela Misail-Nichitin, Vice-President of the International Center “La Strada”, Manager of the Resource Center, in her opening speech. “In other words, the traditional/typical elements of this phenomenon have been modified essentially, thus, new tendencies, new categories of vulnerable persons, new aims and means of exploitation, new methods of manipulation and control have been registered and identified. These modifications denote that the problem starts to gain a more hidden and complex character and intercalates more and more with the phenomena associated with trafficking, such as: migration, contraband and labour force exploitation… It is necessary to elaborate new and more efficient methods of preventing the cases of trafficking, proactive and progressive methods of rendering adequate assistance to the victims of this scourge. Taking into account that at this stage, it is the civil society that plays the role of the leader, it is most urgent that we, NGOs, intensify the collaboration at the international level, synchronize efforts and actions, methods of analysis and activity in the direction of human trafficking prevention.”
In this context, the participants got familiarized with and had the opportunity to analyze over 20 practices that had been applied and tested during several years of activity; and most of the practices were positively appreciated by the participants and recommended to be used, depending on the case, by the participating organizations in future.
The organizers, as well as the participants, hope that such activities will lead to the consolidation of efforts of all organizations that act within this field by establishing stronger professional contacts at the international level. This fact has been affirmed by the messages received from the participants right after the seminar:

"Dear colleagues,
I was very pleased to meet and to be together with you during a whole week. I can state that I have met wonderful people and real professionals. I want to thank everyone for the information shared with us. Your experience is immeasurably valuable for our activity."
Aliona Avetisian, Winrock International, Moldova

"Greetings, dear friends,
When we came back home, our colleagues were eager to find out how our visit to Moldova was. All of us replied with one voice: “It was splendid, wonderful, and indescribable!” Indeed, this was how we felt during our stay in Moldova. We want to express our sincere thanks to the organizers! We were very glad to be together with you. We feel sad that the seminar is over; however, the photos remind us about the nice moments spent together. We remember about you very often and hope to meet you again. Thank you once again for enriching our knowledge!"
Ecaterian, Aneta, Miroslav, “P. U. L. S.” Foundation, Pernik, Bulgaria

"Greetings from the sunny Kherson,
We were pleased to participate in the seminar and we are ready to keep in touch and exchange the information with you in future. If you wish, we could include you in our senders’ list and overload you with the letters regarding trafficking problem here."
Dmitrii, Tatiana, ÕÎÎÖ “Men against violence”, Kherson, Ukraine

26 specialists representing 11 organizations that conduct their activity in the field of anti-traffic from Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine has gathered at the International Workshop on "Assistance to all categories of victims of the trafficking in human beings". The Workshop was organized by the International Center “La Strada”-Moldova in the framework of the Project "Consolidation of the relations of collaboration at the regional level to counteract efficiently the trafficking in human beings" during the period of 21-23 November and was financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. In Moldova this kind of workshop, with the participation of specialists from abroad, was organized for the first time. The organizers of the meeting have been urged on by the fact that lately many of similar events are organized with regard to counteracting, legal proceedings towards criminals, improvement of legislative body etc., and few events are organized with regard to rendering a direct assistance to the victims of this crime. The success of the justice, namely, depends on the success of the assistance to the victims, their identification and rehabilitation.
A continued analysis shows that the trafficking in human beings is a phenomenon in which criminal groupings permanently improve modus operandi in response to the anti-traffic efforts. Today the traditional elements, known until quite recently, suffer big changes; new tendencies are being registered with regard to the categories of vulnerable persons, scope of exploitation, methods of manipulation and control. To be able to respond to new challenges, it is necessary to intensify the international collaboration, synchronize actions and interventions, and harmonize the methods of tackling the cases of trafficking. "In the light of these facts, the scope of our workshop was to discuss and analyze the practices collected by the participants during their working experience with trafficked persons, specified Ana Revenco, President of the International Center "La Strada"-Moldova. In the same context, I would like to mention that, presently, in the Republic of Moldova, there is a set of documents/acts with regard to the national norms/standards of assistance to trafficked persons that is in the process of elaboration. When this set of documents is prepared and brought into operation, it will permit the enforcement of the Law on the prevention and combating of the trafficking in human beings and the protection of victims’ rights. The civil society is also taking an active part in the elaboration of this set of documents, thus, we hope that this workshop will generate new ideas, consolidate knowledge in certain fields to the representatives from Moldova", said Ana Revenco.
The participants in the workshop had an opportunity to get acquainted with 13 practices applied in the field, tested and collected during the period of several years, which practically aim at all stages of assistance to the beneficiaries – starting with the stage of identification up to the stage of reintegration. During the workshop, the participants could also gain new knowledge and experience, consolidate contacts with anti-traffic actors from these states, reaching a certain understanding with regard to the procedures of rendering assistance to the victims. The boldest objective was to give a collective appreciation of the practices presented during the workshop, so that their recognition as good practices could lead to a further harmonization and consolidation of the efforts and approaches at the regional/international level, and could draw together the active organizations in the field by establishing and strengthening the relations of collaboration.

It has become a tradition for the specialists of the International Center "La Strada" to attend events and actions held by different structures and NGOs from various countries (South Eastern Europe, CIS territory, Turkey and others) that conduct their activities in the field of counteracting the trafficking of human beings. Mainly, these actions refer to the exchange of experience and good practices with regard to the prevention and counteracting of the phenomenon, and assistance to the trafficking victims.
In September, Tatiana Fomina, manager of the Center of Analysis and Lobby, at the invitation of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR/OSCE, Warsaw), participated in two actions in this field in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The round table on “Problems of the implementation of Referral Mechanism for the trafficking victims in Kazakhstan”, organized on 19 September by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, with support of OSCE Center from Alma-Ata and ODIHR/OSCE, was held in the capital of Kazakhstan. Lilia Pascal, main specialist at the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Republic of Moldova, also attended the meeting. The experts from Moldova informed the participants – representatives of different state structures of the Republic of Kazakhstan that also conduct some activities in the field of combating the trafficking in human beings (Ministry of Internal Affairs, General Prosecutor’s Office, Frontier Guards Service, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Foreign Affairs etc.) – about the history of creation of the referral Mechanism for trafficking victims, including the practice of Moldova (first experience in creation and implementation in 2004-2006, normative framework, formalization of the collaboration between state structures and NGOs, coordination of actions within the Mechanism at the local level, development of the identification system, positive aspects of the mechanism functionality, but, at the same time, the gaps discovered in the system for providing assistance to the trafficking victims).
The second action, entitled "Approaches in the solution of the problem of human trafficking in Fergana Valley – the Role of the Civil Sector", organized by the NGO "Podruga" during the period of 21-22 September in Ors, town in Kyrgyzstan, gathered about 30 non-governmental organizations from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, officials of USAID, OIM, OIDDO/OSCE Warsaw, local OSCE Offices from Ors, Biskek, Hudjant, as well as representatives of some state structures of the host country. The scope of the meeting was to create a network of NGOs, able to organize a system for counteracting human trafficking in Fergana Valley and select some suggestions with regard to the directions for future network activities. Within the framework of the meeting, the expert from "La Strada"-Moldova presented a report on "Referral Mechanism for the victims of human trafficking as a strategy to protect the rights of the trafficked persons".
The participants in both events showed a special interest in the aspects of conceptualizing the problem of the identification of trafficking victims and the study of the International Center “La Strada”-Moldova on this matter. The copies of the thematic publication on this subject were distributed to the participants.

This was the subject of the third National Workshop of Best Practices Exchange in the field of assisting the human trafficking victims, organized by the International Center for Protection and Promotion of Woman’s Rights “La Strada” during the period of 18-20 September of the current year at Malovata Noua, Criuleni. The Workshop brought together 15 participants representing over ten non-governmental and governmental organizations, such as: the International Center “La Strada”, Center for Preventing Trafficking in Women (CPTF), International Organization for Migration, Mission to Moldova, National Center for preventing the abuse of children (CNPAC), Winrock-Balti, Center for Teenagers’ Rehabilitation in Chisinau (CRAC), NGO “Interaction” (Tiraspol), National Agency for Job Placement (ANORM), Center for Combating Human Trafficking. The goal of the workshop was to debate upon the main aspects of the collaboration between non-governmental and governmental organizations regarding assistance to the victims of trafficking in general, as well as the collaboration between police authorities and NGOs on the identification of the minor victims of human trafficking in particular. The workshop focused on two objectives: the organizers brought to the participants’ attention the presentations on Best Practices “Integration into the labor market. Collaboration between NGO and GO (IOM-ANOFM), “Identification of the minor victims of human trafficking – collaboration between the police and NGO (the International Center “La Strada” (for more details access 21092006.rar (74,4Kb)) and “Collaboration with the bodies for protecting legal regulations with regard to the human trafficking victims’ access to the justice” (CPTF).
By the end of the Workshop, the protagonists of this event identified a series of problems that specialists have to confront with while providing assistance, the problem of respecting the principle of non-victimization in particular, and presented solutions and recommendations on improving the situation.

On 1 November, 2005 the International Center for Protection and Promotion of Woman’s Rights “La Strada” launched a Social Campaign “I also care about…”. The objective of the campaign was to sensitize the large public and cultivate a tolerant attitude towards the victims of human trafficking, and facilitate the access of the victims to the assistance and adequate protection. Planned for a period of 7 months (till May 2006) and supported by a number of international bodies, such as: ICCO, Missions to Moldova of IOM and OSCE, European Commission, the campaign aimed at the local community’s hostility, ignorance and marginalization of the victims of trafficking, as well as the limited access of all categories of victims to different types of assistance. Read all text (Press_release_23_08.doc, 25Kb))

"Bravo to organizers. I have been impressed by the honesty and friendliness of the mentors. Everything was OK, it shall continue like this". "Everything was fine. Especially the fact that some of our colleagues have presented the results of our work. There was a pleasant and friendly atmosphere" These were the appreciations of the participants to the Workshop "Prevention of Trafficking in Human Beings: Evaluation and capacity building", which, between July 18 and 20 of this year, has a gathered together at the holiday resort "Odiseu" in Vadul lui Voda the volunteers of the International Center "La Strada". Defying the heat, disembarrassed of the alert of the summer examinations (and others even having the validated matriculation!), the authors of the slogan "What can you do?" and the Social Campaign "I care about...", have prepared their own examination, alias have reviewed and evaluated the activities performed during those nine months (from October 2005 till June 2006).
If we would classify according to the priorities, the Social Campaign "I care about..." seems to have dominated the preoccupations of volunteers, they being on the top almost all those 210 days, the time period during which lasted this far-reaching initiative of the International Center "La Strada". Evaluating the impact of the caravan on the society, the participants to the workshop have demonstrated that during the process of transmitting/receiving the message they have succeeded to identify alternative solutions for different issues which they faced. By this, the indifference of the public has been neutralized to a great extent by the belief of the volunteers that the trafficking in persons represents a problem of the society worldwide, and not at all an individual one, the ignorance of some citizens - by inviting to discussions, and the difference of opinions - by invoking some plausible arguments about this phenomena, to their confuse reactions there have been made explications about the goal of the campaign, and the pessimism of some of them - the information about the assistance possibilities, provided by the International Center "La Strada" and other organizations active in the field, etc. In spite of some technical difficulties, the Campaign has ended, in the opinion of the volunteers and managing staff of the Center, with plausible results: there has increased the number of calls to the Hot Line, the number of detected trafficking cases, mass-media became more sensitive to the problem of trafficking and, implicitly, has been extended the area of informed public.
Not of less importance has been the activity of holding prevention seminars, subject contests, organized in schools, during the evaluated period the volunteers have succeeded to organize (at request, as well as in collaboration with the General Department for Education, Science, Youth and Sport of Chisinau city - over 150 similar activities, all of them having the title "From young to young".
Also within the scope of this workshop the volunteers have got acquainted with new techniques and communication abilities, have made recommendations, starting from their own accumulated experience, for selecting new volunteers some of them even willing to participate in the selection process, have reviewed the activities for the second half of the calendar year and have planed the activities for the next year.

„I care about...” was the title of the Forum of teenagers from the schools of Chisinau city, which took place on April 7, 2006, in the Conference Room of the Institute of Labor, under the aegis of the General Department for Education, Science, Youth and Sport of the capital and of the International Center for Protection and Promotion of Woman Rights „La Strada”.
The Forum itself has in fact represented a Gaul of laureates of the contest with the same title, conducted by the organizers in the schools of the city during the month of March. The contest was preceded by circa 100 informative seminars and prevention of human trafficking problem, conducted by the volunteers of the International Center „La Strada” in high schools during the current school year, at the end of which was announced the contest. The participants to the seminars have been invited to test their creative abilities in three subjects: drawing, essay, own creation (poetry, short prose, song, dance etc.).
In a festive atmosphere, created by the performance of those circa 30 finalists (winners of I, II and III places at each subject, as well as other 20 participants at the contest, which have received special diplomas) from the lyceums „Ilulia Hasdeu”, „Liviu Deleanu”, „Onisifor Ghibu”, „Vasile Alecsandri”, „Petru Zadnipru”, the school No. 62 and other schools from the capital, at the applauses and acclamations of those over one hundred invitees of them, school mates, Valentina Cujba, deputy director general of the General Department for Education, Science, Youth and Sport of Chisinau city, and Daniela Misail-Nichitin, vice-president of the International Center „La Strada” have handed over to the laureates the corresponding Diplomas, prizes and presents on behalf of the organizers. The festival has been also accompanied by an exhibition of the most successful drawings executed by the participants at the contest.
The activity was a part of the Social Campaign „I care about...”, conducted by the International Center „La Strada” on the whole territory of the republic, with the financial support of some international organizations as ICCO, European Commission, missions to Moldova of OSCE and IOM.

A guiding and informative seminar on this subject, organized by the International Center for Protection and Promotion of Woman Rights „La Strada”, General Department for Education, Science, Youth and Sport of Chisinau city and Theoretical Lyceum „Mihail Sadoveanu” on April 5, 2006, has gathered the school managers from Chisinau, responsible for the process of education. Being within the scope of a number of several activities of the recent period, focused on the phenomenon of non-regulated migration and trafficking in human beings, including the social Campaign „I care about...”, this action had the objectives to ensure the continues education of managers responsible for the education process, familiarize them with the perspectives and directions of activity of governmental and non-governmental organizations towards prevention of children trafficking, with the forms and ways of involving the pupils in activities regarding prevention of this adversity, improving the collaboration relationships of the school managers with the representatives of the society and entities entitled to prevent and combat the trafficking in human beings.
Starting with these objectives, the seminar took place directly in the building of a school – Theoretical Lyceum „Mihail Sadoveanu”. The participants, divided in six (6) groups, have assisted for the beginning at some classes of form mastering for the 9th, 10th and 11th grades, with different subjects („Alone with the fortune”, „Between the dream and reality”, „Human being as a ware”, „White slavery”, „In the shadow of lost steps” etc.), subsequently discussing, within the scope of four (4) workshops, The new education technologies regarding prevention of children trafficking.
The seminar ended with screening the documentary „Parallel Life” and a round table with the subject „Informing via mass-media about the phenomenon and sensitizing the state and non-governmental organizations regarding children trafficking problems”. At round-table discussions participated also the representatives of the Center for Combating the Human Trafficking, General Department for Education, Science, Youth and Sport, Department for Children Protection, of the Riscani region of Chisinau city, representatives of of the Lyceum senate and parents’ committee, representatives of the newspaper „Ziarul de Garda”.

During this day the capital of the Republic of Moldova has received, in the „Dedeman” hotel, the International Conference „Extension of European Union border in the context of the global experience – the problem of migration and trafficking in human beings. Is Moldova ready to react?”. Organized by the International Center for Protection and Promotion of Woman Rights „La Strada” (Moldova), in collaboration with the Center for International Relations (Poland), National Office for Migration of the Republic of Moldova, International Organization fro Migration, mission to Moldova, the Conference fits into the Project „Transatlantic Security – New Challenges and Dilemma of the European Migration Policy” and has constituted one of from a series of conferences, conducted with the support of the German Marshall Fund of the United States of America. The first conference has been organized in Warsaw, in September 2005, the second one – in Kiev, in December of the same year. The next two conferences, after the one in Chisinau, is envisaged to be organized in Budapest and Brussels.
The present conference was hold in Chisinau not by accident. During the recent years the Republic of Moldova faces a number of serious problems, as non-controlled migration of labor force and trafficking in human beings for the markets of Europe and Asia, representing one of the countries being at the top of these phenomena. According to some estimations, the number of migrants which are looking for an working place abroad has reached the figure of 570 thousand of persons, which constitutes approximately 40 percent of the population of the republic which is able to work. These problems are generated by internal factors – poverty, unemployment etc., as well as by external factors – global political, economic and social changes, which take place in Europe, as well as in the whole world. The Government of the Republic of Moldova takes different measures, oriented towards solving the mentioned phenomena. In this context, represents an interest studying the experience of other countries, which have confronted similar experiences, especially the neighbor countries of the former soviet area, the way of European integration of which Moldova intends to follow.
Since at the Conference have participated international experts in migration and human trafficking problems, from many countries: USA, Germany, Poland and Romania, as well as national experts from the Republic of Moldova, the objective of this international forum was to reflect the practices and experience of different countries of solving the problems referring to illegal migration and trafficking in human beings, the possible consequences of European Union extension and the impact on these phenomena for the Republic of Moldova. Following this idea, the Moldovan experts in mentioned problems got acquainted with the experience and prognosis of some EU member states (candidates) and tried to identify the major directions of intervention for the Republic of Moldova, and to work out the adequate recommendations.

Between February 6 and 8, 2006 the International Center „La Strada” conducted a seminar with the title “Identification and social assistance of the human trafficking victims: actions within the framework of the National Reference Mechanism”. Organized by the Contact Center of „La Strada” NGO, the seminar has gathered the specialists in children rights protection within the system of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, especially from Anenii Noi, Cahul, Cimislia, Causeni, Drochia, Dubasari, Edinet, Falesti, Floresti, Leova, Nisporeni, Ocnita, Rezina, Riscani, Straseni, Soldanesti, Stefan Voda, Taraclia districts, which did not participate at such seminars, conducted previously.
Within the framework of the seminar the participants got acquainted with the human trafficking problem as a flagrant violation of human rights and international standards regarding treatment of trafficked persons. Based on the obtained knowledge, the specialists in the field of children rights have improved their abilities of working with the trafficked persons; they got acquainted with the existent mechanism of meeting the needs of victims, being able to identify the human trafficking victims, especially the minors. There have been also determined the ways of collaboration with the Contact Center with regard to providing the necessary assistance.
At the end of the seminar, the participants have benefited from a practical guideline „Social assistance provided to human trafficking victims, and especially to women” (second edition), elaborated by the International Center „La Strada” and meant for social assistants and psychologists; guideline which includes international and national practice in the field of social assistance provided to trafficked persons, as well as other information materials, meant for the persons who suffered from human trafficking.

„Who has the information, controls the situation” – was the leitmotif of the training, which took place between January 31 and February 3 in Tiraspol, within the scope of a project supported by the International Organization for Migration, mission to Moldova, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy. Four operators of the International Center „La Strada”, who have already an experience of 4-5 years of counseling via the Hot Line, have instructed 12 participants, out of which only five (5) will provide telephone counseling to the population on the left bank of Dniestr River via a new Hot Line 0 800 88888, planned to be put in operation by February 15, 2006, within the framework of non-governmental organization „Interaction”. Conforming to the common principles of such telephone lines – free of charge calls, confidentiality and anonymity, the new Hot Line aims at facilitating the access to the necessary assistance to the victims of human trafficking from the respective region. Also, the consultants will offer information with regard to the migration process valid for the population from Transnistria.
The participants to the seminar have recognized that they were not acquainted with the problem of human trafficking, with the aspects of illegal migration and possible consequences. Here are just a couple of statements:
„This problem is not recognized by the Transnistrian authorities, and the access to such a type of information is very limited.”
„I am the one who thought that the human trafficking does not affect me, is far away from me, but after the seminar I have realized that, being young, we are exposed to the risk at any time. I also did not believe that the victims of trafficking can be really helped, but now I have understood that there exist institutions which are able to provide them assistance, starting with taking them out of the place of exploitation and performing the rehabilitation, up to social reintegration”.
Such statements have been made after the operators of the International Center „La Strada” have familiarized the participants to the training with the stages, key moments, during which there can be and rather must intervene, making them understanding, that this problem can not belong only to one person, but to the entire society. The persons selected for the position of consultant were motivated and prepared for a work not simple at all, which shall be done. The future consultants were highly impressed by the interactive mode in which the training has been performed, they understood the gravity and complexity of the problem, the fact which will help them to determine much easier the categories of beneficiaries. They have declared that there already appeared the necessity for such a consultation and informational service with regard to illegal migration problem and human trafficking.
The accumulated information will help the beginning consultants to grow professionally, to become good counselors for the persons who would like to go abroad for working, studying, traveling or marriage, advising them how to avoid the eventual risks and tragic consequences. „The counseling activity will be a challenge for the future consultants, since they will activate on a field considered to be taboo within the zone of the left bank of Dniestr River” has mentioned one of the operators of the International Center „La Strada”.

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