Un ONG registradio o activo
enn
various paises mundialmente
12/2022
- We have had a rethink about which projects work and which
not: toward urban emancipation.
Due to the unsatisfactory results achieved through
our second project (below). And official rebukes
provoked by our foray into "direct
intervention" , in which apparent initial
success terminated in what amounted to unsustainable
repercussions.
In
Santago de Compostela (2016),
Our second attempt to help prevent vulnerable
girls
becoming brothel slaves & rescue some already
enslaved
Several
years ago, in one of the Latin American cities where
we have projects for street children, a Chinese Triad
organized local gangs to capture vulnerable children
for the purposes of organ harvesting and slavery. That
year more than 600 children disappeared from our barrios.
We were forced to recruit more staff in order to accompany
our children to and from school each day (example).
When the Triad moved on, the threat to our children
subsided.
Four years later we were living in a famous pilgrim
center in Europe, where we were exposed to the sad results
of human trafficking.
Most of us have been hearing for some time about enslaved
sex workers - seen news documentaries about young girls
who thought they were being recruited for a normal job:
and ended up as slaves. Like me, you may have felt bad
for the girls, but thought it was up to law enforcement
to save them, and bring the traffickers and pimps to
justice. BUT THIS HAS NOT BEEN HAPPENING. Apparently,
at least some of those who should be freeing these girls
are themselves either somehow participating on the wrong
side, or else are not convinced the problem merrits
their intervention..
(Our research indicates: this form of official corruption/licence
may be taking place on a global scale).
It is understandable that ordinary citizens are afraid
to intervene. On the one side is organized crime, with
their brutal enforcers. On the other side, in at least
the places we have tested so far: some agents of local
law enforcement are also against our intervention. And
so the suffering of these dear girls goes on day and
night, year on year.
My own reticence to taking action finally burst when,
in 2016 I rented an apartment for a year in the pilgrim
city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. There, quite
by coincidence, I was exposed up close and personally
to the plight of these poor suffering female slaves:
and I was finally moved to help save them.
This came about when quite by accident, I found myself
living right across the hall from a busy brothel. Its
door was three steps away, right in front of our door.
Through the peephole we could see everything. We bumped
into the clients, saw the girls, were threatened by
the thug at the door. Our other neighbours in the respectable
apartment building said they had complained numerous
times (over fifteen years) to the police and authorities.
The result was the same as when we complained: a threatening
visit from an enforcer. Even the local press made excuses
for not turning up.
Apparently, the owner has two other such brothels in
other well-situated apartments in the city, and that
the slaves are rotated between them.
So we went to work.
"HOW
TO RESCUE A SLAVE"
(please tell me more)
A
word before you decide to become involved. Your information
will be held by us in the strictest confidence. We hope
you are a positive person, work well with others and have
a natural sympathy for the people we are trying to help
(urban slaves).