What is World Vision doing about Child Trafficking?
World Vision has been working on the issue of child trafficking for a number of years. As a child-focussed organisation concerned with securing the rights of all children, World Vision is actively seeking to respond to prevent the trafficking of children and to assist those who are already victims of this trade within and across a number of countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. In India, for example, World Vision is working with girls trafficked to work as bar girls or commercial sex workers. We provide health check-ups, awareness programmes on HIV and AIDS and health education. In Cambodia, World Vision is working with children to raise their awareness of trafficking. In Ethiopia, World Vision is working with its staff to develop their understanding of the magnitude and nature of the problem of child trafficking. The staff are then able to raise awareness of trafficking with the communities with which they work and take steps to prevent children being trafficked.
