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South Africa is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation. South African women and girls are trafficked internally and internationally for sexual exploitation. Women from other African countries, particularly Mozambique, are trafficked into South Africa and onward to Europe for sexual exploitation. East Asians, mainly Thai and Chinese women, are trafficked through South Africa on their way to South America. There is no evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons, including a lack of concrete, enforced laws and public awareness campaigns.
In 2004, Shared Hope International partnered with Teen Challenge Western Cape to purchase and remodel a compound that will become a Village of Hope, housing women and children abused by gangs and the sex industry. The facility can house as many as 25 women and children, providing a safe place to heal, nurturing accommodations, addiction recovery, medical assistance and education. This blossoming facility also empowers women through the WIN program by developing revenue, work skills and self-sufficiency through IT training and work in the bakery.
Bakery. Our Village of Hope, South Africa is beginning a bakery business to help fund programs and also provide job training for the young women being restored. The dignity, opportunity and future that this business will provide our young women is priceless. The bakery will be supplying bread to a minimum of 14 local schools in South Africa, also providing a great community service.
(I would like to support this project now)
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