Our Approach
Our approach centres around four basic principles from which all our other work and programmes spring.
Read about each of these four programmes and the activities that fall under each of them below.
Safeguarding and Wellbeing
We are taking steps to develop the capacity of survivor leaders to engage in the greater society meaningfully as fully formed, healed, thriving members of society, whose mental health is taken seriously, whose experience and their trauma doesn’t define them, and whose safety isn’t compromised. We recognise the importance of healthy relationships and community as a core part of healing and intentionally work with survivors to teach, provide tools, and create a space where they can develop them. We want to create a space where the survivors are given tools by mental health professionals to reach a state of well-being, but also one where they are encouraged to lean on each other and engage with other survivor peers’ journey to safety and well-being.
Safeguarding and Wellbeing
Projects
Group therapy:
- We believe that healing is best done in communities, especially from peers who share a similar background.
Art therapy
- Creativity is a form of healing
Yoga
- Mindfulness stuff
Economic Justice and Self-Determination
This programme focuses on building the capacity of survivors so that they can be both successful and self-sufficient. We believe that each survivor has a unique path determined by their strengths. Therefore, for some this process may include furthering their education, getting gainful employment, or becoming entrepreneurs. Survivors enter the workforce, they become self-sufficient, gain capital and reduce the power structures that exist that make them and their communities vulnerable.
Economic Justice and Self-Determination
Projects
Group therapy:
- We believe that healing is best done in communities, especially from peers who share a similar background.
Art therapy
- Creativity is a form of healing
Yoga
- Mindfulness stuff
Survivor Leadership and Advocacy
This programme aims to build a community of survivor leaders who will impact change in the society and create a culture that includes and is driven by survivor leaders. This includes survivors engaging meaningfully in the fight for their rights, speaking up, doing outreach, and advocating on behalf of themselves and their community of survivors. We will have survivors lead the movement, inspire others, and advocate change, which will foster more survivor leadership. They will also have front-row tickets to claiming their rights and those of their community in both the anti-trafficking and the wider human rights sector.
Projects
Group therapy:
- We believe that healing is best done in communities, especially from peers who share a similar background.
Art therapy
- Creativity is a form of healing
Yoga
- Mindfulness stuff
Survivor Leadership and Advocacy
Knowledge Production and Sharing
With this programme, we are all about recognising and honing survivor leaders’ inherent expertise which they have gathered from their lived experience going through the human trafficking process. We want to support survivors in recognising the value of this expertise and learning how to use it for the greater good, including tools and capacities to share and ways to unlearn bad practices, prejudice, and stigma. This can be used to educate the greater society to inform interventions, encourage change, and move the anti-trafficking sector to be survivor-centred.
Knowledge Production and Sharing
Projects
Group therapy:
We believe that healing is best done in communities, especially from peers who share a similar background
Yoga:
Mindfulness
Art therapy
- Creativity is a form of healing
The way in which our approaches, values, and vehicle intersect to reach our mission is visualised in our Theory of Change below.
