On 18 June 2019, MWL Foundation’s staff members successfully completed the full Character Driven Leadership training, led by Edlira Gjoni, Next Generation Leader, McCain Institute for International Leadership.

The final training day and ceremony concluding the Advanced Level of Character Driven Leadership Training and certificates were awarded to all staff members by Edlira Gjoni and board members of the Centre for Public Impact. Also present for the ceremony, via Skype, were Lieutenant General Benjamin C. Freakley USA Retired, Senior Advisor, and Ambassador Michael C. Polt, Senior Director of the McCain Institute.

Mary Ward Loreto Foundation team members are very thankful to Edlira Gjoni and the McCain Institute for International Leadership, for this outstanding opportunity for professional and personal development.

Through this training, the team is being transformed into advocates for common core values of integrity, responsibility, respect, trust, economic opportunity, freedom, and human dignity.

https://www.albaniahope.com/…/mwl-staff-final-training-day…/

Albanians, especially the youth, are one of the most trafficked populations in Europe. Despite only having a population of 2.8 million, Albanian victims of exploitation are found in almost every country in Europe; the UK alone confirmed 1274 victims in 2017-18. These are the lucky ones who made it through the complicated government system. Countless more in the UK and all over Europe will never be recorded.

Youth unemployment hovers around 23%, meaning around a quarter of people between 16 and 24 are neither in education or work. Traffickers offering high salary ‘jobs’ in Europe easily prey on those who are concerned about their job prospects. But it is not just those out of work who are vulnerable; university students are increasingly being trafficked through the ‘boyfriend’ or ‘partying’ models. In these models, personal relationships, formed when students are first living away from home, are used to manipulate people into exploitation.

Informed by values-laden thinking and ethical leadership, the ARISE Foundation offer possibilities for grant-aided training and support to organisations which work to combat human trafficking and effect change at grassroots level.

More at: https://www.arise.foundation/news/awareness-raising-the-key-to-sustainable-resilience-building?fbclid=IwAR0tGN01vxfqE0HUe_KYxYBOKgv1q4XdQwHVEbHORx_1tDY1kjb2r9GSl-s

Adapted by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.

In the evolving work to combat and bring an end to Human Trafficking and Exploitation, RENATE members make every efforts to avail of upskilling and training sessions which enhance existing skills and competencies.

To this end, RENATE members at SOLWODI Romania share photos from a recent course on Project Design and Project Management, organized by the ERSTE Academy Foundation. It was a valuable opportunity to learn new work strategies and establish common activities. We are grateful.

Prepared by Anne Kelleher, RENATE Communications.

A word from our President:

The last six months have resulted in much change in the working strategies of RENATE. Self-managing groups focusing on various aspects of the work against human trafficking are now in place and these include: RENATE Advocacy, Awareness Raising, Capacity Building and RENATE Assembly 2021.
RENATE Country Groups are also beginning to meet on a regular basis, supporting each other in collaboration with the European network. Data collection has been one of the main issues to measure the extent of the work and the depth of the crime as witnessed by the members. This report has a new look which reflects this focus. It is an important shift in the strategy for combatting Human Trafficking.

The Research on Child Trafficking now published and launched in the House of Commons in the UK, in January 2019, is another illustration of the focus on research and the details needed to highlight the extent and the manner of the crime across the continent.

These are small gestures for combatting what we know is an ever-growing and super intelligent trade of people by ever growing  numbers involved in world-wide criminal gangs. These criminal gangs are super achieving their goals, more than the most highly intelligent law enforcement agencies across the world who strive to bring the perpetrators to the courts for conviction. What is going wrong? Why is law enforcement failing to achieve their goals?

“We hope to speak out more vocally over the upcoming five years as RENATE moves out from its strong base to work more tirelessly to combat human trafficking by 2030…”

Please click here to read the full report.