Do the women and children, once returned, stay in their villages or do they return to prostitution?
Each case is very different. Some left their home village due to political turmoil and cannot return. Others left because there were no working opportunities. At the Half Way Home, the young women are taught practical skills such as sewing, handicrafts, cooking, and agriculture, which they may put to use as income generating activities when they return home. Others decide they would like to further their education in order to have more skills and more opportunities. Yes, there are some who return to their villages and turn right around and return to prostitution because they see that as the best option for earning money or the same people that trafficked them in the first place come and take them again if, for example, they have not paid off their initial debt to the trafficker or the brothel. Also, it is a difficult transition returning to village life after working in the prostitution industry. At the Half Way Home, staff members work to assist the young women with the transition of
