[ALBSA-Info] New Publication: Child Trafficking in South-Eastern Europe: The Development of Good Practices to Protect Albanian Children

[Agron Alibali]

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> Child Trafficking in South-Eastern Europe:
> "The Development of Good Practices to Protect
> Albanian Children"
>  
> Contribution by Terre des hommes Foundation and the
> Albanian Foundation Ndihmë Për Fëmijët
> in sharing best practices in the fight against child
> trafficking.
>  
> For years, during tourist seasons and religious
> holidays, Albanian 
> children have been taken to Greece to beg and to be
> exploited by their 
> so-called bosses. Today, after four years of common
> efforts to counter 
> this plague, the organizations Terre des hommes and
> Ndihmë Për Fëmijët can affirm: Child trafficking is
> not an 
> inevitability!
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> Twenty social workers, teachers and community
> animators from both 
> organizations have shared their experiences to
> extract solutions from 
> their daily practices and from their successful
> partnership.  This 
> reflection is today launched as Child Trafficking in
> South-Eastern Europe: 
> "The Development of Good Practices to Protect
> Albanian Children"
>  
> If some of the points raised in this document are
> specifically related to 
> the Albanian context, most of the parts of this
> model of action are 
> adaptable to different situations in South-Eastern
> Europe. Already, NGO 
> partners in Greece, Romania and Moldova are using
> the model of action 
> described in the document to implement their
> counter-child trafficking 
> activities on the field.
>  
> This transnational model of action is based on the
> principle of "strategic 
> parallelism" (The project intervention follows and
> directly counters the 
> strategies of traffickers):
>  
> 1. To understand the reason "Why" children are
> victims of trafficking, Terre des hommes  analyses
> the path of former trafficked children according to
> the Children 
> in Street Situation (CSS) systemic approach. This
> system allows social and 
> educational staff to find appropriate solutions on a
> case by case basis.
>  
> 2. To know "What" to do to help children facing this
> scourge, Terre des hommes, together with its
> partners in the field, is at the origin of an 
> integrated model of intervention, divided in five
> main fields: Prevention, 
> Protection, Assisted Voluntary Return, Reintegration
> and Coordination. 
> Today, this model of action has been integrated into
> the Albanian National 
> Strategy Against Child Trafficking (adopted 11 FEB
> 2005) and is adapted to 
> the Romanian and Moldovan contexts.
>  
> 3. "How" to approach children, be they victims or
> at-risk of trafficking, and 
> their families is one of the main concerns of Terre
> des hommes and its partners. Good practices have
> been extracted from field 
> experiences in order to determine the nature and the
> evolution of the 
> trust relationships between project actors with
> children and their direct 
> environment.
>  
> These good practices are published in the framework
> of TACT Project: 
> Transnational Action against Child Trafficking.
> Donors include the United 
> States Agency for International Development (USAID),
> the Swedish 
> International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida),
> the Oak Foundation, 
> the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), and the
> National Albanian 
> American Council (NAAC).
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> The publication can be downloaded at the following
> website: http://www.tdh.ch
> French and Albanian versions are available. 
> Italian, Romanian and Greek 
> versions are under preparation.
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>  
> The Swiss Foundation Terre des hommes against child
> trafficking in Europe:
>  
> Terre des hommes is implementing counter child
> trafficking activities since 1999 in 
> South-Eastern Europe. With the assistance of
> specialized resource persons 
> and its children rights departments at HQ, the Swiss
> Foundation and its 
> partners developed an integrated model of action
> against child 
> trafficking, implemented transnationally, between
> countries of origin 
> (Albania, Kosovo, Romania and Moldova) and countries
> of transit and 
> destination (Greece, Italy, Slovenia, France, and
> Russia).
>  
> Today, The Swiss Foundation is facing the risks and
> the constant 
> flexibility of child trafficking trends within the
> challenge of EU 
> enlargement. Terre des hommes  continues its
> advocacy efforts in the framework of its
> International 
> Campaign against Child Trafficking (ICaCT, begun in
> 2001, based on general 
> public awareness, specific advocacy on legislations
> and projects in the 
> field). Terre des hommes complements the
> international campaign with a specific Regional
> Child 
> Protection Project (RCPP, 5-year project) which
> target the main fields 
> related to child trafficking, including juvenile
> justice and HIV-AIDS 
> prevention.
>  
> For more information, go to: www.tdh.ch and to
> www.childtrafficking.com
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