The Salvation Army is providing care for victims of human trafficking. What is it actually providing?
The Salvation Army provides emergency care for rescued victims of trafficking and longer-term care for survivors of trafficking. The longer-term care seeks, as an expression of Christian compassion, to provide assistance to women survivors trafficked for sexual purposes. In a therapeutic environment the women’s experiences are dealt with holistically, enabling them to reach their full potential and empowering them to make informed decisions about their future. The aim is to support and encourage independence and emotional/physical healing by providing an individually tailored programme within a bio-psychosocial framework fostering emotional and spiritual wellbeing. ‘An element of risk is involved… We will protect vulnerable women in our care by not disclosing the location of any work that we do’ It has to be recognised that by engaging in the rescue and support of survivors an element of risk is involved: traffickers will try to reclaim what they consider to be ‘their property’! Beca
