After a rescue mission, the real work continues. This is the challenge that governments in developing nations with limited resources face. Once a child is rescued, what next? If RTBF lacks the funds to rehabilitate and reintegrate a child, we cannot responsibly rescue them. Therefore, we must raise critical funding for the entire process, not just the rescue.
Rehabilitation
During the six month rehabilitation program, the children are brought to the Rehabilitation Center where they receive medical and counseling services, learn life skills (personal hygiene, manners, etc.) and transition into a classroom setting. Meanwhile, Eric attempts to trace the children's families and the children are later reunited with their parents, relatives or guardians. If a child is an orphan or there is no suitable caregiver, they are placed in a safe environment such as a shelter/home and we continue to support their care and education.
Reintegration
Rescued children are placed in a secure environment to ensure they will not be re-trafficked. They are reunited with their family/caregivers and we continue to monitor them to ensure their successful reintegration into their villages. They are placed in schools or vocational training is arranged for older children who have been trafficked for many years and returning to school is not a viable alternative.
Since traffickers target poor families and prey on their desire for a better life for their children, RTBF may provide micro loans to support private enterprise opportunities to help families escape poverty and achieve financial independence.
Through our community outreach programs, families in "sending" villages, where children are trafficked from, are educated about the deceptive practices that traffickers use to deceive them and they learn about the fate of trafficked children. As a result of the success of these programs, there are now sending villages that notify the authorities when traffickers come and attempt to traffick their children. The "receiving" villages, where trafficked children are transported to, are educated about forced labor and the rights the trafficked children have to attend school, just as their own children do. By educating villagers in both the sending and receiving villages, child trafficking activities are stopped through societal change.
Rehabilitation
During the six month rehabilitation program, the children are brought to the Rehabilitation Center where they receive medical and counseling services, learn life skills (personal hygiene, manners, etc.) and transition into a classroom setting. Meanwhile, Eric attempts to trace the children's families and the children are later reunited with their parents, relatives or guardians. If a child is an orphan or there is no suitable caregiver, they are placed in a safe environment such as a shelter/home and we continue to support their care and education.
Reintegration
Rescued children are placed in a secure environment to ensure they will not be re-trafficked. They are reunited with their family/caregivers and we continue to monitor them to ensure their successful reintegration into their villages. They are placed in schools or vocational training is arranged for older children who have been trafficked for many years and returning to school is not a viable alternative.
Since traffickers target poor families and prey on their desire for a better life for their children, RTBF may provide micro loans to support private enterprise opportunities to help families escape poverty and achieve financial independence.
Through our community outreach programs, families in "sending" villages, where children are trafficked from, are educated about the deceptive practices that traffickers use to deceive them and they learn about the fate of trafficked children. As a result of the success of these programs, there are now sending villages that notify the authorities when traffickers come and attempt to traffick their children. The "receiving" villages, where trafficked children are transported to, are educated about forced labor and the rights the trafficked children have to attend school, just as their own children do. By educating villagers in both the sending and receiving villages, child trafficking activities are stopped through societal change.