Skills for the Future
A trafficked person often prioritizes job skills
training, language training and education among
their top needs because these critical services lead
to employment and a more secure future. Many
reintegration programs work with educational
institutions, job skills centers and corporations to
help trafficked persons access these opportunities.
Trafficked persons have even undertaken specialized
studies to later directly assist other trafficked
persons. El Refugio de la Niñez in Guatemala
employs educators in addition to social workers,
psychologists and lawyers to assist returning
unaccompanied children. Made by Survivors
partners with shelters for trafficked persons to
provide job skills training, business development and
an immediate consumer market for jewelry, bags
and other gifts that they make. The Youth Career
Initiative of the International Business Leaders
Forum connects trafficked persons in Mexico with
six-month job training programs in the hotel
industry.