Preventing commercial child sexual exploitation

Summary

To work to advocate against the trafficking of children through workshops educating teachers and promoting an educational video.

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $398 was raised for this project.

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Warn teenagers, children & parents about sexual exploitation, give tools to teachers to help students avoid dangerous situations. Inform about penalties and risks of engaging in trafficking activities, as well as recruiting methods of traffickers, to floating populations while moving from the country to the cities.

Activities

To hold 36 workshops in 3 years warning up to 30 million students; work with bus and airlines coming to Mexico City to present a video on the subject. Distribute 30,000 comic books per year; use internet and email to warn about trafficking.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $398

Funding Policy: partial

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $398as of Jun 09 2004.  The original project funding goal was $44,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

More community members will be informed about sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Project Message

No quote available.
- M.A. Grisel Castro Nieto, Mexico Project Coordinator

Who is Running This Project

Contact

M.A. Grisel Castro Nieto,
Mexico Project Coordinator
Luis G. Vieira #23 interior 3
Col. San Miguel Chapultepec
Mexico City, D.F. 11850
Mexico
52 5 54 23 11 06
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public

Organization

Popular Women Defenders
Luis G. Vieira #23 interior 3
Col. San Miguel Chapultepec
Mexico City, D.F. 11850
Mexico
52 5 54 23 11 06
http://www.ashoka.org/fellows/viewprofile1.cfm?PersonId=1065

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Mexico and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about Mexico, read the Human Development Report on Mexico or the Wikipedia entry for Mexico.

When this Project was Updated

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 07, 2003.