Netzwerk gegen Menschenhandel e.V.
c/o Zieher Business Center, Uhlandstraße 20-25
10623 Berlin
Germany
Contact person: Andrea Kern
+49 (0)30 88614 576
info@netzwerkgm.de
https://netzwerkgm.de/
Topics
- Aid organization
- Human rights
- Women's policy
About us
The Network Against Human Trafficking is a non-profit organization focussing on education, political commitment, prevention and practical assistance including helping individuals. We are a network of individuals, churches and organizations working to combat human trafficking. Since 2010 the Network Against Human Trafficking has been an independent association in the confessional community of the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches (BEFG) in Germany. At the beginning, in 2006, it was a project of German Baptist Aid (Europe Aid).
Our goals:
• social awareness of the issue of human trafficking
• Reduction and abolition of forced labour and forced prostitution
• Creation of a comprehensive national network of well-trained multiplicators on this topic (in particular for prevention)
• Expansion of opportunities for personal involvement in combatting trafficking
• Support for environmental projects
• Political and social developments that strengthen the interests and rights of our target group
• appreciative, interdisciplinary cooperation (regional, national, international)
• a life without gender-based discrimination, violence and exploitation
What do we do?
• We give information about human trafficking e.g. In church services or at events.
• We support counselling and contact points with workshops for further education, financial subsidies and placement in safe houses.
• We show others how to help.
• With our programme "Love without coercion" in schools and youth groups, we explain about “loverboys”. We conduct multiplicator training sessions for speakers.
• We are networked with other organizations.
Projects:
• Love without coercion: With our prevention program we want to inform people about the scam of the “lover boys” and to help young people to protect themselves from them. We conduct workshops in schools and train instructors for them. Loverboys are young men who pretend to have a love affair with a girl or a young woman in order to lure them into prostitution later.
• Bridge of Hope: aid project in rural Andhara region in India. The campus in the village of Gotlam includes a children's Home, a vocational training centre and a hospital to support marginalized communities. The work is mainly supported by volunteers. Founded in 1990, Bridge of Hope is supported by EBM International and the Anti-Trafficking Network. India is very much affected by modern slavery. It is primarily poverty and lack of prospects that make people victims of trafficking and exploitation. Bridge of Hope does important prevention work. They fight poverty, train young people and strengthen their future.
• GIPST: launched in January 2017 and co-funded by the European Union's Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), GIPST has three priorities: to identify those affected by trafficking in hitherto unknown places and to educate new potential victims (such as asylum seekers) and relatives about the dangers of traffickers; the integration of identified victims in Germany through a comprehensive Compass Program designed to enable reorientation through mentoring, life skills and entry into employment; the accompanied, voluntary return of those affected to their country of origin or another country and further support by local partner organizations. The comprehensive Compass Program is also being implemented In the priority country of the project - Bulgaria.
Andrea Kern is the Publicity Director of Network Against Human Trafficking.
On request we can offer other net participants advice, give a presentation, and provide up-to-date information and contacts in the field of our work.