WHO WE ARE
BTRMU is a community based org started in 2007, working to rescue, rehabilitate and resettle young girls and women who have suffered sexual exploitation and Human Trafficking towards a healthier lifestyle together with their children. We currently run a shelter situation in mbiko njeru town council and a drop in centre in kizungu zone.
Vision
“ A Community where young girls and women free from sexual exploitation and living positively empowered lives.
Mission
“To rescue, rehabilitate, empower and resettle young girls and women who have suffered sexual exploitation towards a healthier lifestyle together with their children.
Objectives
1. To provide care and support young girls so that they discover their potential.
2. To share the love of God so that they also share what they have received with all.
3. To equip girls with psychosocial skills to help them develop a positive self-image and build resilience.
4. to provide spiritual support that influences behavior change so that they can also share what they have acquired
5. to equip girls with leadership skills to enable them better express their potential and influence society
6. To equip them with business and entrepreneurial skills for self-sustainability.
7. To fight against any form of sexual exploitation and human trafficking
Values
Togetherness
Love
Integrity
Confidentiality
Target Group.
The primary/ direct beneficiaries of BTRMU include girls within the age group of 18 –24years (at the home and drop in centre who are sexually exploited. The categories of the direct beneficiaries may include; identified girls living independently in slums, bars, lodges, brothels etc.
Victims of human trafficking for sexual purposes of whichever age have been added to the target group
Our interventions:BTRMU seeks to rescue, rehabilitate and resettle girls affected by sexual exploitation
1. Counselling and reconciliation.
2. Life Skills Training
3. Accommodation & family support during rehabilitation
4. Provide/restore structure in the girls’ lives
5. Vocational skills training
6. Behaviour change training
7. Entrepreneur/Business skills
8. Leadership training
9. Feeding.
10. Medical care
11. Peer education
12. Community sensitization
13. Sensitization, Counselling & empowerment of parents/guardians
14. Community outreach to exploited girls
15. Resettlement package
16. Functional Adult Literacy
17. Opportunity for girls to give back to society by reaching other girls.
18. Opportunities for volunteers to work with the girls.
19. Follow up after resettlement.
20. A drop-incentre were we receive, listen and pray with the girls.
Achievements
– Over 500 girls have been reached by BTRMU during our prevention program.
– Over the years 140 young women have gone through the residential program (lived in the home)
– 140 have opened small business and are running well.
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– A smoothly running home that provides accommodation during rehabilitation
A Drop-in-center that started in February 2023 that has recorded an attendance of 15 girls who have been empowered with skills and start up and are running small businesses
– Engagement in several advocacy activities about the dangers of sexual exploitation and trafficking through the CATIPU coalition.
Where we would like to go
– Acquiring land and constructing a skilling and rehabilitation centre
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– Have more girls withdrawn from sexual exploitation; an average of 100 girls from sexual exploitation/prostitution and an average of 60 victims of human trafficking annually
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– Integrate some into the formal education system
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– Opening up another centre in Busia and Bugiri.
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– Provide vocational training for those that cannot be integrated into formal school
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– Provide adult literacy programmes
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– Nurture & restore the girls’ identity and self-esteem to enable them to proactively engage in personal & society transformation
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– Provide for the welfare of the beneficiaries e.g. health & nutrition
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– Provide business training and start-up capital to support the girls’ business ideas; hence financial independence
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– Step up Advocacy & Community sensitization campaigns about the dangers of commercial sexual exploitation & human trafficking
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– Carry out research to facilitate the designing of appropriate Intervention
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– Acquire sustainable sources of income for BTRMU and its beneficiaries e.g. farming, crafts making