Menneskehandelskaffe - En Kopp for Frihet!

 Human Trafficking coffee- one cup for freedom

Description of the campaign:
The campaign is about Human trafficking. The campaign goes like this; We are trying to involve cafes to sell the same coffee in the name of “human trafficking coffee” but with 2 kroner extra because we are going to collect that 2 kroner in boxes. We are making it some sorts of competition between the cafes to encourage them to collect as many kroner as they can. So the highest collecting café will get some sort of prize and diplomas. We are also thinking of going into the news paper and local television which will give publicity to the campaign as well as to cafés.
Duration of Campaign:
Proposed: From 22nd  of February to 22nd  of March (1 month).

Objectives:
The main objectives of the campaign are:
•    To Create Awareness among the people of Aust Agder that human trafficking really exists in the world.
•    To make them feel like they have done something for stopping it.
•    To collect some funds that are going to be utilized in the projects that has been run by Norwegian Red Cross Youth to stop human trafficking in the countries like Nepal, Serbia and Croatia.

Utilizations of money we get:
We are going to give that money to the Central Red Cross Youth Office and they are going to send it to National Red Cross Societies of Nepal, Croatia and Serbia.

Since Poverty and illiteracy is the major factor governing the human trafficking. So, for educating part most of them are utilizing it for preventive majors, they are having workshops for youths, telling about human trafficking, each work shop cost around 100 euro. They are also having youth to youth education. They also have centers for victims of human trafficking, a place they can stay when they get out and are saved.

For raising economic status they are conducting micro financing system where they are giving out small sum of money for one family in a village to buy goat(One goat cost approx. Kr 200)  from which they can earn money and give the dividend to the other family so that the fund is rotating among the families in the village. So same 200 kr in the years can be utilized by many families.

In Nepal project has been launched in 6 district: Palpa, Lamjung, Myagdi, Dhading, Makawanpur and Sarlahi. Previously the Dhading district was the place from where higher numbers of the girls and child have been trafficked but after launch of project not even a single case has been reported of trafficking yet. This is about just the one district of Nepal but there are still many young girls from other many districts who are really in need of help.

A weekend with Asylum seekers

This friday dated 29th January, I along with my co-delegate Durga went to Kiland Senteret. The program was organised by the Grimstad Red Cross Youth and we were invited there. The program was with asylum seekers. There were altogether 36 youths. It was very nice to be there. It was our first experience with the asylum seekers. That is also one of the reason that we were excited to be with them. All of them were youths and very active doing much more fun. 

In between the activities, they, without any hesitation, started to dance among themselves. They were happy to be there. So, I feel like, taking them out of asylum center and make them enjoy within themselves with certain activities like skating, skiing, and other lots of fun is one of the good aspect of Red Cross Youth. 

It was also a good experience for us because we had a three hours course of Human Trafficking with them on Saturday noon. It became interesting also because some of them are not good in English and some of them are not in Norwegian so we had to put translators both in Norwegian and Dari language because most of them speak Dari language. Any way we had managed to show them a picture of overall condition of Human trafficking in the world and also make them feel with some role plays and discussion sessions.

We along with having fun also had some Active choice course before dinner on Friday Grimstad Red Cross Youth put on their effort to make them understand all the thing that they were telling there. They also showed how to use condom properly there and make them practice in dildoes. 

 

They had a social dinner by the side of fireplace with roasting pølse. Since we were vegeterian, we had to prepare spagetti ourselves. Then after we had some social games like cards but some of them were dancing very happily in the arabian music.

We had outdoor activities in the snow, some of them had brought ski stuffs with them and some of them had brought skating shoes, They were exchanging things and trying both skating as well as skiing and also there are others who are having fun in the snow by throwing snow balls or burying people in snow.

I also tried skiing (Cross Country) in the lake. It was great fun. We returned back at 17:00 on Saturday.

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