Survivor Engagement Team Report

Job Titles and Descriptions...... 2

Survivor Profiles...... 4

Survivor Engagement Team Progress Report – 3 month Assessment...... 7

Haven Hotline...... 8

Outlook...... 9

Annual Budget...... 10

Survivor Intake Interview / Form...... 11

Brian Stone

Energia N-Rivera

Submitted: Thursday, 11/18/2010

Job Titles and Descriptions

Title: Survivor Engagement Coordinator (SEC)

Description: The SRC is a paid full-time position. The SEC is responsible for all survivor recruitment efforts. Duties include developing and implementing direct and street outreach efforts to engage survivors, involve them in the intake assessment process, and enroll them to meet recruitment and retention goals.

Primary responsibilities include:

· Managing direct outreach through Survivor Allies Network. This includes recruiting ‘Survivor Allies,’ people who will be paid a modest sum to inform suspected trafficking victims about H4H’s services and inform H4H of areas of suspected trafficking. Common trafficking cover establishments the SEC’s efforts should target include, but are not limited to, massage parlors, escort services, adult bookstores, modeling studios, bars, strip clubs, red light district establishments, etc. The Survivor Allies Network will act as an ‘underground railroad’ of information that helps to funnel trafficking victims to H4H.

· Directing street education and outreach. The SEC recruits and leads a team of Street Outreach and Education Volunteers (SEOV; primarily university students) to produce and disseminate informational pamphlets to women in red-light, high-traffic, and tourist districts. Street outreach will also include providing free food and packages of hygiene products that also contain educational information.

· Overseeing H4H Hotline Operations. The SEC recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers to staff the H4H Hotline 24/7. Responsibilities include establishing systems and protocols for maintaining call logs and records, providing volunteers will appropriate referral contact information for services beyond H4H’s scope, monitoring call volume and suggesting appropriate changes to the Hotline system to respond to public need/demand.

Title: Capacity Development Coordinator (CDC)

Description: The CDC is a paid full-time position. The CDC is responsible for external relations partnership building, capacity development, and collaboration efforts to further engage and enroll survivors in H4H.

Primary responsibilities include:

· Partnership building with local and regional police, legal systems, and officials dealing with trafficking victims. The CDC will lead university student Volunteer Trainers in offering free workshops to local officials to inform them that H4H exists, what it does, who should be referred to H4H, the scope of H4H services, and how to recognize and ‘reach’ (or inform) trafficking survivors of H4H’s services.

· Build linkages with local organizations and networks, such as medical centers / personnel, religious institutions, etc. The CDC works to establish linkages with officials at key ports of entry, such as Border Patrol, and with the Labor Relations Board, to assist in the rehabilitative placement of trafficking survivors from illegal smuggling in persons at borders or illegal / improper labor conditions – such as illegal working conditions in sweat shops, agricultural farms, construction sites, etc. The CDC is tasked with raising awareness about H4H within local and regional organizations involved with monitoring trafficking or practices often related to trafficking as a go-to referral site for rehabilitative and educational services for trafficking survivors; this includes providing information about the specific services and scope of services H4H offers.

Title: Survivor Intake Coordinator (SInC)

Description: The SInC is a paid 20 hour per week part-time position with additional required on-call hours and pay. The SInC is exclusively conducting all survivor intake assessments, managing the enrollment process, and developing H4H Survivor Profiles. In addition, the SInC will conduct feasibility assessments for survivors desiring to return to their countries of origin, maintaining detailed records, and refer survivors to additional services, as appropriate.

Primary responsibilities include:

· Conducting all intakes, and conducting enrollment.

· Managing enrollment process.

· Developing H4H Survivor Profiles.

· Conducting feasibility assessments of possibilities for survivors’ return to their countries of origin.

· Maintaining updated, organized, confidential records on all survivors seen by H4H, including intake forms and progress reports.

· Referring survivors to outside organizations for additional services outside of the scope of H4H, such as housing services, legal aid services, hospital/medical/dental care, intense psychiatric services, etc. This duty will include creating and maintaining Referral Services lists by category, with the help of university student Volunteers as necessary.

Survivor Profiles

Name: Fatuma Mtenga

Age: 22

Country of Origin: Kenya

Region: Turkana District, (Northern Rift Valley)

Nearest City/Town: Lokichokio

Story:

We received information from an anonymous source that a house being used for the purposes of human trafficking was raided by police on the morning of November 12, 2010. When we went to investigate these suspicions at local police precincts we came across Fatuma; she was charged and released.

Fatuma was in a group with 3 other women. All of the women had been introduced to one another in Spain. None of them could speak Spanish, nor could any of them speak the same language. Fatuma is from the Turkana tribe and speaks their language fluently; she also has a limited knowledge of Swahili and English.

Communicating with Fatuma, we discovered that her parents died when she was 19 – both falling victim to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. She learned Swahili and English at school, which she attended until the time she was 16 when she became pregnant and was forced to stop attending school. Girls in Fatuma’s town are not permitted to attend school after they have become pregnant and had a child. Fatuma was being supported by her parents until they died. Upon the death of her parents, relatives came and took everything that her parents left behind—as a single woman Fatuma had no inheritance rights.

Fatuma was not sure what she could do to survive when she met a woman who said she had traveled to Lokichokio to offer women work. She said she could help Fatuma by allowing her to finish her education at a special school for girls and youth that were just like her. Upon the completion of her education she would be able to find a good job that would allow her to provide for her daughter.

Fatuma agreed to leave with the woman and was provided with documents and papers. She is not sure what these documents said. She got herself ready and left with her daughter to meet the woman in the middle of the night. She believes that she was smuggled through the Sudan. As soon as the bus they were on got to where it was going the woman disappeared and she was placed into a van. At this point she said she became afraid because these people were not kind. They took her daughter from her and told her if she ever gave any information about where she came from, or how she got to where she was going that they would kill her daughter. She has not had any contact with these people or her daughter since. They brought her to the coast using roadways exclusively, and at the coast smuggled her into a boat with 20 other women. Some of these other women also had children.

We were fortunate enough to find Fatuma, but the local authorities are prepared to deport her in accordance with Spanish law if she will not agree to testify against the people who trafficked her. She is a Muslim and said that it could be very dangerous for her to return home, but is afraid to testify because of the threats that were made. We have connected her with free local legal services. She said that even though she hasn’t heard from her daughter she knows that she is still alive.

If she is able to stay in Spain she has expressed an interest in learning English, Spanish, and would like to study History. She would like to use her education to become a school teacher one day.

Name: José (Zé) Carlos da Silva

Age: 17

Country of Origin: Brazil

Region: Minas Gerais

Nearest City/Town: Serra dos Carajas

Story:

Zé was one of seven brothers and sisters raised by his single mother, Celia. Limited economic opportunity and the burden of raising a large family single-handedly meant that Zé, the second oldest child, and his siblings often worked as unofficial street vendors, selling fruit, beverages, jewelry and other goods, typically catering to tourists. Until the age of 13, he went to school during the day, and worked evenings. At age 14 he was sent to work with his uncle in the nearby city of Belém, who did not have money to support him. He was struggling to survive, when he met a group of older boys and men who were promised agricultural work in Spain. He only recalls being herded onto a plane with many other boys and men and forced to sit on the floor for the very long flight. When the plane arrived, they deboarded into a field and were given sets of false documents. After being kept in small shed for several days, he and the other boys were taken from the farm in a van and kept in a warehouse used for sex trade. There he was injected with drugs against his will, kept locked in the facility, and mistreated over the course of months. He befriended a regular client, who then ‘bought’ him for regular services and relocated him to a private home. After hearing a Haven for Humanity radio advertisement, Zé decided to plan his escape. In the middle of the night, he left the home where he was being kept, taking several valuables, money, documents, and clothing with him. His age precludes him from legal pressures to testify, as he is under the age of consent in Spain.

He is very interested in gaining an education in Europe, so that he can return to Brazil with the skills that enable him to gain employment and help his family financially. He already has a working knowledge of Spanish, speaks fluent Portuguese, and will be enrolling in the English language program as well. He’s always been good with numbers and sales, and has an interest in studying accounting or finance.

Name: Ana Ceausescu

Age: 24

Country of Origin: Romania

Region: Wallachia, Dâmboviţa County

Nearest City/Town: Targoviste

Story:

Ana was brought to Spain when she was 19 and was kept locked in a house in Barcelona until last month when she escaped. She came to our office on November 15th after finding out about us via one of our billboards.

Ana is from a town named Targoviste which has a population of about 90,000 people. When she turned 18, she decided to leave home in search of love and a more exciting life in Bucharest. She started to develop a social life in Bucharest by going out to discotheques at night to meet other young people. This is where she met Mihail, who she started a relationship with. She said they were having a great time going out and drinking at discotheques and she started to meet some of his friends. She didn’t feel she had any reason to be suspicious of anyone she was meeting. Then she decided to go to a party Mihail’s friends were hosting. She thought that Mihail would meet her there, but he was not there when she arrived. While she waited for him, she met with some other girls. She found them all interesting to talk to, because they all had such similar stories to her—same age, looking for a new life in the city, having a great time. One of the hosts of the party came out and offered everyone a shot of alcohol to celebrate. None of them thought anything of it, but the next thing Ana remembered was being cold and on a train. It was dark inside, and there were no windows, so it was probably a freight container. It was likely she was drugged. She knows by the sounds and motions that she went from being on a train route, to being on the sea.

She is willing to work with the police to try to find the criminals that did this to her. However, she cautions that it may be difficult to locate any of the people that she met. She knew them for a very brief period of time and they may have been using aliases. Add to this the size of Bucharest and the possibility that they move around and it elucidates why locating these criminals may be difficult.

Ana speaks Romanian and limited English when she was brought to Spain. She is interested in learning English and returning to Romania. She misses her culture and wants to be able to see her parents and family again.

Survivor Engagement Team Progress Report:

3 month Assessment

1) Developed a comprehensive one-year budget plan (See below)

2) Formalized intake interview procedure (See below)

3) Created promotional and educational materials

The Survivor Team has created promotional and educational pamphlets (brochures and booklets), posters, and television, radio, web and newspaper advertisements in conjunction with the Communications Team. We have also developed billboards and bus stop advertisements. These materials have been translated into Catalán, Spanish, and English.

4) Conducted Survivor Intake Interview Form and procedure and recruited 25 trafficking survivors for H4H programs

We have conducted intakes for 30 victims, 25 of which are suitable and interested in enrollment in the H4H educational programs – 50% of the first annual target goal for enrollment.

5) Established the Survivor Allies Network (SAN)

We recruited 30 ‘Survivor Allies’ for SAN. 20 of the Allies will be paid $50 per month to inform suspected trafficking victims about H4H’s services and inform H4H of areas of suspected trafficking. Allies represent a presence in cover establishments including massage parlors, escort services, adult bookstores, modeling studios, bars, strip clubs, and red light district establishments. An additional 10 Allies volunteered their services free of charge. The SAN is prepared to act as an ‘underground railroad’ of information that helps to funnel trafficking victims to H4H. This initiative is being managed by the Survivor Engagement Coordinator.