Affero Organizations
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The Home Foundation is a non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking both domestically and abroad. Through advocacy, education and relief efforts, the Home Foundation is committed to end the suffering of women and children sold into sexual slavery.
It is estimated that there are as many as 27 million slaves world-wide with 85% of those victims being women and children. While the devastation from this evil is tremendous in places like India and Eastern Europe, we would be remiss not to acknowledge the growing problem in the United States. Estimates of victims trafficked within the U.S., both domestically and internationally, range from 100,000 to 300,000. In fact, a recent recovery of children trapped in prostitution in the U.S. indicated that as many as 100,000 minors are working in the sex trade domestically (October, 2009).
Organizations frequently offer rescue and restoration to victims internationally because the need is so tremendous in these high-risk areas. However, little is being done to address the need for shelters here in the U.S. In fact, in some instances exploited girls are being kept in jail until they can speak out against their perpetrator because there was no other safe place to keep them.
The Home Foundation through a collaborative effort with shelters dedicated to Christ-centered restoration of survivors of sex trafficking has initiated the Christian Trafficking Shelters Association (CTSA). This association helps set forth guidelines to ensure that victims receive quality care to allow them to maximize their God-given potential and re-integrate into their communities as wholly functioning individuals engaged in life, restored and free from their past. It is our goal that through the development of this association, quality H.O.M.E.S. will be started across the U.S. thus increasing the number of beds for these victims from the current estimation of 50 to five times that by the year 2011. The H.O.M.E.S project strives to help develop homes dedicated to HOPE, OPPORTUNITY, MENTORING, EMPOWERMENT, & SPIRITUAL SUPPORT.
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| Category: | Human Trafficking |
| Project Name: | The H.O.M.E.S. Project |
| Location: | USA |
| Demographic: | Women and Children (Ages 12-45) |
| Project Funding: | $25,000 to sponsor the CTSA educational conference in the spring of 2011. |
Working specifically in the field domestically with sex trafficking survivors is relatively new. Many of these individuals suffer long term effects due to the trauma and abuse they have experienced. Funding through Affero would allow The Home Foundation to establish an educational conference to assist those serving this unique population by giving them tools to further develop their programs in the cities and homes where they serve and give them opportunities to network with other professionals serving in this field.
This conference would bring together experts in the field to equip and develop workers dealing with Human Trafficking here in the USA. The issues victims of trafficking face are huge, including; post traumatic stress disorder, disassociative identity disorder, night terrors, detachment, eating disorders, cutting, sexual trauma and much more. This conference deals with these issues while offering practical help and advice on running shelters in the USA.
Established shelters dedicated to the total restoration of an individual rescued from sexual slavery will have a huge impact on the face of modern day slavery and the abolitionist movement of the 21st Century. When victims become re-integrated into society they can speak out against perpetrators and affect change for other victims. This will help move us closer to achieving our ultimate goal: a day when slavery is truly eradicated.
Website: www.thehomefoundation.net