Youth Workers – Key To Ending Human Trafficking Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Workers – Key To Ending Human Trafficking

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

Human Trafficking is and has been a topic close to the heart of our organization CCIF. It concerns everyone, but still most people do not know much about it. We have carried out projects to raise awareness in the past, for example ProjectSTOP, however, there is still a lot to be done. This project is designed to reach out to youths and keep them safe since they are vulnerable to human trafficking by equipping youth workers and developing tools that will make youth workers play an important role in stopping human trafficking. Youths will be reached more effectively through youth workers by making them teach them about human trafficking and how to recognize possible victims and giving the needed support. The objectives of the project are: a) Increase the Identification of victims of Human Trafficking b) Increase safety among youths and to keep them safe c) Raise human trafficking awareness in general this project includes organizations from Cyprus, Italy, Malta and North Macedonia. More than 75 persons will be directly participating in this project. These participants will be youth workers from each of the participating countries. They will come from various cultural and social backgrounds and we will include different age groups. They will be participating in a workshop to learn about human trafficking and how to come up with activities to raise awareness among youth. There will also be multiplier events with a total amount of 110 participants. These participants will include “Youth Workers – Key to Ending Human Trafficking” (YU WOK 2 END HT) will compromise the establishment of four intellectual outputs: A research report, an online downloadable manual, an online course the creation of a software application that will be used to assist Youth workers identify possible youth victims of human trafficking. Youth Workers to identify victims of human trafficking more easily.
The project will include a number of activities including transnational meetings, administrative activities, and hands on activities that will lead to the creation of the intellectual outputs and a number of national activities, consultations and multiplier events to promote the intellectual outputs. The methodology to be used will be very informal and we will try to change the approach according to the target group of each particular activity. The expected immediate results are: – 100 Downloads of the online manual from our website, 110 people attend the multiplier event – 100 people will be registered in the online course during the project – 75 people will attend the mobility of Youth Workers and 9 to attend the job shadowing event. The expected impact and long-term benefits include a strengthened relationship among all participating organizations and their youth workers and volunteers, increase the level of efficiency of NGOs working together. Another expected long-term impact is to raise awareness among youth and keep them safe as well as to train people working with youths to recognize signs of human trafficking and eliminate human trafficking.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 151741 Eur

Project Coordinator

CROSS CULTURE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION CCIF & Country: MT

Project Partners

• CESIE
• Reaching Out
• Association for action against violence and human trafficking