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The Poppy Project is in receipt of Home Office funding to provide a limited number of beds in safe housing for women who have been trafficked into prostitution in the United Kingdom. Based in London and run through EAVES housing – (a registered charity which has been working for 26 years to provide homeless women across London with high quality supported housing), the Poppy team have launched a poster campaign targeting traffickers and those who use trafficked and exploited women’s services, which should be of interest to CHASTE supporters.
CHASTE has recently launched the Sanctuary project which seeks to bring the capacity of the churches in response to the challenge for safe housing and trauma recovery for those who have been trafficked into prostitution and erotic labour in the United Kingdom. Expanded services in this area are desperately needed as the Poppy Project run through Eaves Housing has only limited capacity. Currently not in receipt of Home Office or statutory funding, CHASTE works co-operatively alongside secular agencies working in victim support for those who have been trafficked into the UK.
CHASTE is currently working at the level of practical response in:
- The provision of safe housing in a domestic and supported framework particularly outside London
- Psycho-spiritual support when requested by those trafficked into prostitution, working with the known religious routes of confession, blessing, absolution, personal protection, intercession for threatened family members and the opening up of new futures
- Provision of social, health, translation and legal representation through the statutory and voluntary sectors
- Training of church workers, chaplaincy, church leaders, counsellors and congregations in areas of high demand and supply
- So far funded by small grants from individual churches, the Body Shop and most recently by Llyodds TSB.
- CHASTE still need funds to develop the innovative work of developing safe housing capacity, which is urgently required to enable women to escape from the traffickers’ control, through the powerful intervention of congregational participation across the denominations.
- Working with the religious congregations and small denominational intitiatives to release housing into the Sanctuary project work.
Please be in contact with CHASTE if you are able to respond in some way to the provision of sanctuary or funds for our critically important work.
The following pages may shock, but this trade in human flesh is indeed shocking as the road to recovery is slow and in need of all the support that people can muster.
http://www.poppyproject.org/
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