Dear Wenchi,
From Madre Coraje thank you very much for giving different people and organizations from all over the world the opportunity to take part in this debate about human trafficking. We have learnt a lot from the rest of contestants. We believe that the end of human trafficking will be a hopeful reality in a near future if people carry on working in projects like the ones shown in this competition.
We would also like to tell you a bit more about our project regarding to the questions you raised a few days ago.
The sustainability of the project lies on the companies and in the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility. Companies set aside a part of their budget to finance these projects, they also encourage their staff to get involved and to take part actively in the projects. The staff is able to adopt children from welcome centers and companies help them to visit these centres "in situ" with the goal of making their employees aware of the situation of the children and enabling them to cooperate.
Companies also promote network with other companies and organizations which are working on similar projects.
One of the main points of our project is that companies have to see welcome centres as a opportunity to give young people a formation in the areas they work and need, for example, creating in the welcome centres workshops that will anable children to work for that company in the long run or to run their own business at local level. This is important because at the same time we are taking children out of the streets, avoiding to get caught by traffikers and on the other hand the local economy is being enhanced.
Thank you to all participants,
Madre Coraje
Jesus Mula Salmeron
Madre Coraje
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