Kigali, 17 January 2024 – Delight Rwanda has launched on Wednesday 17, 2024, Human Trafficking Prevention in Secondary Schools at IPRC Kigali located at Kicukiro District, City of Kigali, Rwanda. This event serves as an opportunity to alert the community, especially young people, about human trafficking forms and tactics used by traffickers.
Launch of the Human Trafficking Prevention in Secondary Schools
The Delight Rwanda’s Executive Director Samson Gihana said: “In today’s society, many young people experience online and physical human trafficking threats every day from people they know/trust and sometimes from people they don’t know and it threatens their survival, development, and participation in society”. It is in the recognition of these plights and threats that Delight Rwanda has initiated the Human Trafficking Prevention in Secondary Schools.
“As we are launching this project today, the project survey conducted by Delight Rwanda confirms that at least 80% of internet users in Rwanda and 40% worldwide will aware of human trafficking through our online/digital campaign, 125 high schools will be reached out and 125 students mentors will be trained about human trafficking” Said Samson Gihana.
Human Trafficking Prevention in Secondary Schools campaign outreach and the Students Mentors’ Training are the best communication channels to reach the direct vulnerable beneficiaries.
Human Trafficking Prevention in Secondary Schools activity is designed to use speech and panel discussions competition as the campaign methodology. The online and media platforms will be used to ensure that internet and social media users as one of the target group and the young people are aware of forms of human trafficking and its consequences. All our efforts are directed toward content creation alerting the community about human trafficking and illegal immigration. Among traffickers' most preferred ways of finding victims is posting fake job offers online, promising work opportunities, often in far-off lands. Such recruitment and coercion often occur through targeting on social media.
Human Trafficking Prevention in Secondary Schools campaign outreach and the Students Mentors’ Training are the best communication channels to reach the direct vulnerable beneficiaries. “The trainees will be focal persons to disseminate messages/information about human trafficking prevention and reporting the cases to their prior authorities.
Human trafficking remains a global problem that makes people suffer physically and psychologically during and after transportation victims of human trafficking to other parts of the world. The government of Rwanda demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared to the previous years, considering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its anti-trafficking capacity. For this purpose, Delight Rwanda increased the efforts of national awareness and prevention campaigns; and organized sustainable care shelters for human trafficking victims.
