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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

Not For Sale in Uganda has supported the Jesuit community in Gulu, Uganda to build a community of peace and unity through education and music.

In 2011 Not For Sale completed the construction of  a classroom building and girls dormitory at the OCER Campion Jesuit School for former child soldiers and at risk children in war-torn Gulu.

Not For Sale has finished the construction of a Peace Garden amphitheater for the Undugu Family that seeks to unite different populations and ethnicities through music and performance.

Volunteers in Uganda have documented, mapped and researched cases of slavery in Uganda and East Africa for the Not For Sale slavery map. We have been collaborating with local anti-trafficking organizations to build a coalition fighting against modern day slavery and influencing changes in policy.

Background

Northern Uganda has been plagued by a history of conflict. For over 20 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) terrorized the local communities, abducting and enslaving children to fill an estimated 80% of it’s ranks. Children as young as seven were used to raid villages, execute prisoners, and act as baggage porters or sex slaves.

Throughout the conflict, education was severely disrupted by the abduction of child soldiers. Many families refused to send their children to school in fear that children would be abducted in commute.

Men, women and children are incredibly at-risk for forced labor and prostitution within Uganda. Children are forced to work in bars, restaurants, begging rings, street vending, fishing, agriculture, or as domestic servants. Ugandans are also recruited and forced to work in prostitution or as laborers abroad in places as far as Sweden, Malaysia and Oman.

Uganda does loosely uphold an anti-trafficking law and a handful of cases of human trafficking have been reported over the year. However, the lack of prosecution, protection, and prevention largely has to do with the fact that there is a lack of data and understanding of how to identify human trafficking.