Author: SKCH

WE PROVIDE

Against the
human trafficking

refugee house with a secret address
intermediation of medical care, food and clothes
financial support
social aid
psychological and therapeutic aid
legal help
personal assistance
help in getting a residence permit
help in getting in touch with family and relatives
help in returning to the home country
language courses for foreigners
self-development courses, requalification and motivation courses
support in finding a job
support in finding an accommodation
spiritual support

Contact
Slovenská katolícka charita
Kapitulská 18
814 15 Bratislava
E-mail: www.charita.sk
Tel.: +421 2 54 43 15 06
Fax: +421 2 54 43 30 97
Mob.: +421 918 994 754
bank account: 292 183 2281/1100

Caritas Slovakia

Seeking and supporting

In recent time experiences from partner charity organizations abroad show that a lot of people victimized by human trafficking are found in all types of refugees centers for foreigners. There are not just victims of forced prostitution but also forced labor.
This project is focused on prevention, seeking and providing of subsequent support and help to the people in refugee centers victimized by human trafficking. This is conducted by means of public prevention lectures about human trafficking, individual consultations, providing of consultancy, aid and support in case that victims of human trafficking are revealed.
Protecting and reintegrating
Main aims of the reintegration aid program for the victims of human trafficking are:
to help victimized people get their life, to normal again so they can live actively as before,
to recover their dignity and freedom,
to teach them to take responsibility for their future life,
to help them to get back their trust in their surroundings,
but first of all, to rebuild self-confidence in their abilities and create the conditions to apply the newly acquired experiences in their future personal and professional life.

Prevention and public education
Since Slovak republic is for victims of human trafficking mostly the source and transitive country, our organization here in Slovakia is primary concerned with prevention and public education.
The main goal of series of public prevention lectures is to enlarge the knowledge of young people about this phenomenon as well as to acknowledge the existence of such problem and initiate change in their attitude from indifference to protection of themselves and others.
Part of the lectures is providing information about travel documents, work permits, ways how to verify their legitimacy and satisfy requirements for traveling abroad. This public prevention lectures are also focused to warn young people against potential proposals which usually contain suspicious features such as promises that “everything will be arranged once you get on – site.” We also provide information about objective situation around salaries and warn before the contrast between assumed and excepted job position and salary on the one hand and reality on the other.
The lectures are realized in schools, in leisure centers and pastoral centers and via the catholic medium.
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According to the international organizations’ estimates every year there are 4 million people all over the world victimized by the human trafficking. In the human trafficking, these people are abused by others. The victimized people are usually facing threats or physical violence in foreign countries or in other places which are far away from home. They are forced to work under pressure or in conditions that would be under usual circumstances not acceptable. A situation happening very frequently is that the victims do not get paid for work or they get just the minimal amount, are forced to work for long hours without resting and with marginal food taking.