Life of Survivor from Human Trafficking

CCPCR is the first local NGO which works on combating human and child trafficking in Cambodia. Almost 25 years experienced, we have found that all vulnerable people and survivors have been living in bad condition before migrant and after turned back to their home. Because there is no sustainable job or business at home, so CCPCR is working to support them to have small business at home, vocational training, and job-placement in their community to effort their living and enroll the child to school. So You can take part with us to combat human trafficking in Cambodia by contributing your money with Aurore.
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From Miserable Life to Get a Skill of Hairdressing

Thida is one survivor of trafficking to beg and sell lottery ticket in Vietnam. She is 17 years old and she is the 7^th children among 9 siblings in a poor family in countryside of Svay Rieng province.

When Thida was young, her family's condition was bad, they lived in the small house with hold roof and wall, and no one in her family ever got education. Her family felt in debt, since her parents got sick and not able to work. They also have no land or rice field. Thida had no chance to catch school as other child. She responded to help her family by migrating to beg and sell lottery ticket in Vietnam because almost all her elder sisters and brothers got married and lived in separated house.

Thida went to Vietnam for 3 times since she was 10 years old. She said, her parents saw her neighbors earned a lot of money there, therefore she and her sister were sent to earn money too.

The condition of living and working on the street in Vietnam was so difficult and but she did not earn much as expected. She had no enough food to eat, place to sleep and she always escaped when she saw the police.

Unfortunately, Thida was arrested and detained for a month, before she was repatriated back to Cambodia​​ to live with her parents. She was vulnerable of remigration because her parents had no money to support her family and her study.

In 2013 at her age of 13 years old, Thida was referred to get CCPCR's service with supported to get general education until grade 3, then she was supported to train on skill of hairdressing and beauty salon.

Eam Sreypov the social worker at CCPCR said, during studying and staying at CCPCR Svay Rieng shelter, Thida also got supported on accommodation, counseling, and her family basic need for several months. CCPCR supported her parents to raise animal at home to gain more income. She continued, CCPCR helped them due to their needs and situation, however CCPCR also wanted to see them to change their lives and avoid from repeated migration.

Thida was so clever and learned quickly, only one year of training she got it and she was given the salary about 50 to 60 dollars per month by the shop owner. "Thida has commitment, working hard and diligent to learn this skill, even I blamed her sometime", said shop owner. Thida was improved quickly and she might be able to make money by herself, she continued.   

"I feel so lucky and happy to get the skill training, and I could not make my life changed as Today without supported by CCPCR", said Thida.

"I myself can earn to support my family with my ability, so my life is better through hairdressing skill", she added.

According to this important skill, Thida commit to strengthen her ability to be more professional and she wish to run her own hairdressing shop one day. She wish to make a lot of money to support her family and her younger sister and brother to get higher education to avoid from migration as well. Name to be changed.
http://www.ccpcr.org.kh/article/165/activities/from-miserable-life-to-get-a-skill-of-hairdressing.htm

Case study: Child Club in Thmei commune

“Education is important to find a good job and protect ourselves from child trafficking” said one of the girls of the Child Club of Choubpring village.

Founded in December 2014, this Child Club met four times with our Transit Coordinator in December 2014, January, February and April 2015 to learn about children’s rights, child trafficking, child labor and child abuse. When we met its members on the 24^th of September 2015, most of them still had vivid memories of what they had learned and were convinced of the importance of education as a means not only to have a good future with good jobs and high salaries but also to better protect themselves.

“What is child trafficking?”, we asked them. One said it was the selling of children to another country to work but without any food or salary. Another asserted it was when someone gave some money to the parents to take their child to work in another country. This person would promise the parents their child would get the money from his work but would keep it for himself. Asked about child abuse they gave various answers such as “it’s the selling of children to sex businesses”, “it’s when the children sell something in the market and don’t go to school or when the children work at the factory” or “it’s when the parents do not let their children go to school” or even “when only 1 of the 4 children in a family go to school”.

We finally asked them about what they could do to help the children that were in these situations and got a genuine answer about “warning a girl that the candy she was given is a trap to harm her” or answers about reporting to stakeholders like commune council members, parents, schoolteachers or even just calling neighbors and warning other children. Empowered by the knowledge they got about their rights and the dangers they are facing, these children can then raise awareness about their rights and better protect themselves as well as other children in the village.

SVG Trained Beneficiary to Be Sustainable Farming

Mr. Dy is one of CCPCR's SVG leader in Tuol Korki commune, Mondul Sema district, Koh Kong Province. He is 44 years old and one of former of migrant abuse to work in Thailand. Mr. Dy's family was so poor and he had to respond for big family (5 children) without specific job or land and capital to do agriculture.

Before Mr. Dy migrated to work in Thailand, he also used to do agriculture and raise animal at home but it depended on natural resource so he did not get much income. At that time he also had no skill of raising chicken, it always failed (sick and die) and he wanted to continue career in Cambodia but he had no capital, then he heard information about higher salary of working in Thailand, therefore he and his wife decided to migrate illegally to work there to support their family and children to study.

He stated about difficulty of processing the legal document, it was not easy to get passport even thought he spended money, so he and his wife decided to migrate illegally with broker who claimed to know boss in Thailand. However, working there was not easy and got higher salary as he expected as long as he worked from the morning until the night.

He said "My difficulty that I challenged, I had no passport or document of legal work, so I got exploited of working, even the boss allowed us to work but we got less money and warned to be arrested by police in reason I had no legal document".

They worked there since 2013 until 2016 but they still did not earn enough money to support their children, so they fled from workplace to live in homeland. He said "In Cambodia If I try to work hard and work much as I worked for boss in Thailand and I may be able to get a lot money", said Mr. Dy.

Due to his interesting and experience of doing agriculture, he is efforts to raise animal and grow vegetable at home again.

In respond to reduce risky migration and eliminate trafficking, CCPCR' SVG with supported by USAID's partner CTIP implemented by Winrock International is supporting to improve living condition of vulnerable peoples and victim of the migration through training and providing loan.

Mr. Dy was admitted to joint CCPCR's SVG and he was selected by member to be SVG leader. He was trained on policy making, bookkeeping and loan management. He also got skill training on animal raising, financial and small business management at home.

"I was confident to start up new career with animal raising and growing vegetable since I participated with CCPCR", said Mr. Dy. His family condition is better than before, he can make a good income about $200 to $250 per month to support his family and all his children can go to school. His life is better than working in Thailand because he can earn to get early money and live happily with family. He can save money to buy more agriculture materials and raise more chicken, he wished to have his own land to increase and develop his career.

Child issues in Cambodia