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Anhui’s First Anti-Trafficking Housing Project and Activity Centre is Set Up in Mingguang, China

Funded through the Women’s Federation’s Project for Anti-Trafficking in Girls and Young Women, the Women and Children’s Activity Centre in Qiaotou Town, Mingguang Municipality established the province’s first home, which was officially founded on 6 December 2006.

Through the platform of the activity centre, numerous women and girls from the countryside can join an anti-trafficking network and a posthouse to safeguard their rights and interests.  This project is a cooperation between the International Labour Organization and the All China Women’s Federation, as well as the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Public Security.  Eleven ministries are together planning the development for the four-year international project, aiming under the government’s guidance to use different means to participate in an anti-trafficking in women and children collaborative mechanism.

The activity centre is about to train female migrants in vocational skills, they are contributing training in manufacturing skills and education in legislation for women who stay in their hometowns, they are also educating and publicizing anti-trafficking awareness and safe migration to children.

Adapted from: Anhui’s First Anti-Trafficking Housing Project and Activity Centre is Set Up in Mingguang. The People Online. 6 December 2006.