Trafficking and exploitation is an increasing threat to children around the world. Every year more than 850,000 people are trafficked across international borders for labor exploitation, prostitution and other human rights abuses. Children are used for domestic servitude, prostitution, child soldiering, factory work, agriculture and plantation work, mining and camel jockeying. Sometimes sold by an acquaintance or a family member, sometimes lured with false promises of education, employment, or safety, trafficked children are held in slave-like conditions – without appropriate food, shelter, and clothing, often unpaid, and severely abused.
Save the Children seeks to strengthen local responses to prevent and address exploitation, trafficking and abuse. Our programs work with communities, local organizations, civil society, and national and international governments to prevent trafficking and reintegrate children who survive.
- Prevention through Community-based Responses
- Raises community awareness to identify and protect vulnerable children;
- Increase access to health, education, and shelter for working children;
- Increase skills training and economic alternatives for youth & families.
- Reintegration and Rehabilitation for Trafficking Survivors
- Provides psychosocial support;
- Provides community reintegration;
- Provides access to basic services.
- Advocacy
- Includes media campaigns trafficking issues;
- Pursues policies to increase public and private funding.
