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Stage I: Stability & Safety

Allowing survivors and at-risk populations to meet their basic needs is essential in stabilizing individuals who have endured a traumatic past. Stage I involves providing adequate shelter, food, health care and legal services to create a safe environment capable of fostering opportunities for a stable future.

Stage II: Life Skills & Job Training

Once the livelihood of at-risk communities can be sustained, investing in goods and services that create opportunities for the world's poor is critical in inclusive social and economic growth. Not For Sale believes that equipping at-risk communities with basic skills will prepare individuals for sustainable long term opportunities. Stage II seeks to provide targeted populations with formal and non-formal education and vocational training.

Stage III: Dignified Work & Sustainable Future

To prevent and protect vulnerable communities from human trafficking, Not For Sale promotes economic opportunities that lead to long-term employment and viable incomes for at-risk communities. Stage III seeks to create jobs for survivors through the Not For Sale social enterprise models either by incubating business or collaborating with industry leaders who model best practices in supply chain responsibility.

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Project Overview

In Peru, our Not For Sale representative and local abolitionist, Lucy, operates a safe house for women living on the streets of Lima. Named after a victim of sex trafficking who was found strangled in a hotel room, Veronica’s House provides immediate and lasting care for survivors, providing food, health care, vocational training, and a transitional space to stability.

Not For Sale is also building a Vocational Center, connected to Veronica’s House, which will expand the vocational opportunities of Veronica’s House residents and other beneficiaries of Not For Sale Peru. The first stage of construction, now complete, provided a first round of vocational training for several young men Not For Sale has worked with, many of whom now have permanent jobs working with a construction crew.

In 2011 alone, Not For Sale supported 171 individuals, 27 of which were in Veronica’s House and additional 144 individuals on the street.

Amazon Project

Considering many of the youth in Peru are migrating from the Amazon region, Not For Sale has gone “upstream” to identify seven indigenous communities, totaling over 2,000 families, where human trafficking has become rampant principally due to extreme poverty. To create additional opportunities for dignified work and thereby lower risks to trafficking, Not For Sale has partnered with these community leaders to create a sustainable supply chain for artisan jewelry. Through an innovative blend of enterprise and community development, Not For Sale is leveraging corporate partnerships to craft products that not only tell the native communities’ stories of struggle, but also create sustainable jobs to responsibly harvest local resources.

Background

For centuries the native tribes of the Peruvian Rainforest have received innumerable threats from illegal logging and mining, forced eviction from their native lands and widespread prostitution of women and children. Many are lured to the capital city of Lima under false pretense, and either end up in forced labor or living on the streets. Those who are living on the streets in Peru are deprived of family care, protection, and opportunity. These children lack basic rights such as access to education, healthcare, housing and food. Stigmatized as drug addicts, thieves and prostitutes, they are defenseless and subject to abuse, neglect, commercial sexual exploitation, and forced labor.