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16.03.2018

Under the patronage of The President of Malta, Her excellency Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, accompanied with the Parliamentary Secretary Farrugia Portelli.

The Birzebuggia primary school was one of the institution that welcomed the team behind the project and supported in the coordination of the activities where school children aged from 4 to 10 years old actively participated. In particular, a short movie acted by children was produced. We collaborated further with the selected children to produce two child-friendly short anti-human trafficking awareness videos, in which upon the completion will be published on our social media sites in hopes that many people can benefit from these videos which will be held at Marina Hotel Corinthia Beach Resort on 16th March, 2019. Two creative workshops, including discussions and speeches by the ex-victims of human trafficking has been conducted during the conference.

My responsabilities: promote the conference and implement the media both interviews and photography and disseminating the results at local and national level. Support Regine with media management needed (collecting pictures, materials, video) of all activities the participants are included in, sharing all these materials in our social media. Moreover, has been assigned me a suitable supervision for the children during the whole event.

Youth participants has been able to increase their awareness about the danger of human trafficking through two creative workshops and speeches delivered by victims of human trafficking themselves as they discussed about their real life experiences. At the end of the conference, youth participants have obtained deeper understandings about the important elements of human trafficking and how to identify risk factors of human trafficking, which can eventually help prevent them from becoming victims of this vicious human trafficking issue.

Behind the Conference we collected some positive and negative points. Considering the positive side, most of the participants gave us good impressions about workshops, talks and the venue, comfortable and  welcoming  with nice atmosphere and people. As the children responded well, we’re going to organize further workshops and debates, to educate as many youths as possible and working in interesting topics within the framework of human trafficking with the purpose to involve them, engaging a positively influence by developing supportive relationships in order to make them aware of the reality in which they are. More, we received the feedback from H.E President and the Parliamentary Secretary who said that we have to keep our perseverance with helping people in need and working together, using crucial way as the media to expose the ugliness of human trafficking. He also asked to contribute to design preventive actions which will help society tackle this problem from different perspectives: sexual health, labour laws, child protection, foreign policy, trade and employment. From the Government side, they willing to move on to make sure that the laws are victim-oriented as well, and give equal importance to the protection of victims as much as they give to the prosecution of perpetrators. Though we have had bad comments relating to the content that didn’t satisfy most of the participants 

We have reflected about the importance of taking notes about the results of this conference as we have understood our weaknesses and our strength and therefore which side we must work more on it to avoid unexpected.