| CLUB GUIDELINES
Stop Trafficking / Adopt-a-PNP WCPD
Soroptimist
STOP Trafficking Project Guidelines
August 29, 2008
To: Club
Presidents
Cc: District
Directors
From: Bing
R. Grande
Chair,
Committee on STOP Trafficking
Subject: Soroptimist STOP Trafficking
Project
Guidelines
for Clubs - Biennium 2008-2010
SIA’s current thrust, the Soroptimist
STOP Trafficking project, was launched to
raise awareness about trafficking and sex slavery
and to enjoin Soroptimists and communities to take
action to prevent and put a stop to it. SIPR strongly
commits its support and active participation in this
project.
All Soroptimist clubs are asked to
participate in the Women’s Opportunity Awards
plus at least one other impact project benefitting
women and girls. As sex trafficking is one of the
most important and urgent global issues affecting
women and girls today, I am asking you to make that
one additional impact project a Soroptimist STOP Trafficking
project.
Objectives, Strategies, Projects/Activities
Below are our objectives and suggested
strategies and projects for clubs:
• To raise awareness among (a)
Soroptimists; (b) adopted barangays; and (c) general
public about the crime of trafficking, and to work
towards a continuing and increased public awareness
on the issues and problems involving sex trafficking.
- participate in the SIPR Logo Design
Contest (please see mechanics)
- conduct seminars/workshops for
club members and adopted barangay and public for
a for the general public
- invite knowledgeable speakers from
SIPR’s Speakers Bureau
- show videos and films on trafficking
which are available in SIPR
- read SIA’s white papers on
sex trafficking
- partner with the barangay, church
or other civic group and involve them in your club’s
activities
- involve S-Club members in your
club’s information campaign in schools and
among students
- promote the project in trimedia
and do an email blast
- Distribute Soroptimist STOP Trafficking
awareness rack cards in the community – health
centers, social services agencies, libraries, schools,
etc.
• To integrate sex trafficking
issues in club projects, especially in projects on
the Governor’s thrusts on basic education, livelihood
training, women’s health and family spacing,
for the awareness potential victims and the healing,
rehabilitation and re-integration of survivors to
enable them to regain their self-dignity as human
beings.
- incorporate sex trafficking issues
in club projects such as gender sensitivity; values
education (especially for girls and their parents);
teen dating; women’s health projects such
as STD, HIV, AIDs, cancer; and livelihood projects
- organize support groups for identified
victims and survivors
- include identified victims and
survivors in the search for WOA and VRA
• To work with other NGOs and
GOs, particularly the PNP and the DSWD, in creating
public awareness, collaborating in projects or in
advocating for better laws to penalize traffickers,
sex buyers and other perpetrators of sex trafficking.
- sign a MOA for the adoption of a
barangay containing a specifically mentioning the
elimination of Sex Trafficking in the barangay
- collect data and statistics at
police and barangay levels and challenge officials
to have Zero Sex Trafficking in their respective
barangays
- sign a MOA with PNP, DWSD, and
other NGOs for joint projects
- help law enforcers by learning
how to identify both victims and perpetrators
- organize a barangay PimP Watch,
and report to the PNP and DSWD businesses suspected
of engaging in sex trafficking
- boycott such businesses and advocate
for barangay not to issue a business permit
- advocate for stiffer penalties
for violators and perpetrators such as qualified
trafficking (for those who hold positions of trust
over the victims)
- join other NGOs for advocacies for
better laws - such as the Anti-Prostitution Bill
- Support a UN project on the eradiction
of violence for women and girls.
To help clubs carry out their projects,
several Soroptimist materials and resources are available,
such as:
SIA
- Awareness Rack Cards – please
click here
to download
- Model Program Kit - “Trafficking:
Assisting Victims and Advocating For Change”
- please click here
to download
- White Paper on Sexual Slavery –
please click here
to download
SIPR (available on request)
- Videos and Movies on Trafficking
- Sample Format of Seminar to disseminate
information about trafficking
- Sample powerpoint presentation
Thank you for your
cooperation. Please let me know if there is anything
else I can do to help your club on this important
project. I look forward to working with all of you
and your club members.
Noted by:
Click here
for Logo Competition Mechanics
Adopt-A-PNP
Women and Children Protection Desk
29 August 2008
To : Club
Presidents
Cc : District
Directors
From : Guia C. Martinez
Chair,
Adopt-A-PNP Women and Children Protection Desk
Subject: Guidelines, Requirements and
Procedures
General Guidelines
I. Each Soroptimist
Club must set up a Women and Children Protection Desk
to be managed by a police woman (police man if no
police woman is available) and assisted/supported
by two or three Soroptimists assigned by the Club.
How to do it –
a. Coordinate with the Mayor or Chief of Police
in the area, explain the purpose of the Desk which
is to address the concerns of abused women and children,
inform them of their rights and to institute remedies.
b. Prepare a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for signature
of the Soroptimist Club Officers and the Mayor or
the Chief of Police. (Attached is the sample of
the MOA which you may adopt or revise as needed).
II. Information Dissemination
a. Conduct a forum on:
R.A. 9262 – Anti-Violence against Women and
their Children Act of 2004
R.A. 9208 – Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act
of 2003
R.A. 7610 – Special Protection of Children
Against Child Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination
Act
Other laws regarding human rights
b. The police woman in-charge of the desk should
be invited to the barangay forum to inform the residents
of the community about the existence of the Women
and Children Protection Desk, its purpose and functions.
This may also be done by a knowledgeable member
of the Soroptimist Club.
III. PNP
Summit of Police Officers Managing the Women and Children
Protection Desk
a. The Soroptimist
Club should send a representative/s to attend the
PNP Summit to be held in Bohol on September
11-12, 2008 to have a better understanding
of the role of police officers managing the Women
and Children Protection Desks and the best practices
or case management that may be adopted in dealing
with cases involving offenses against women and
children.
b. SIPR shall provide information on the modes of
transportation and reasonable rates to Bohol, also,
hotel/lodging accessible to the venue.
IV. Result
brought about by the Women and Children Protection
Desk
1. Questions
to answer:
a. How many cases of abuses or offenses committed
against women and children were brought to the WCPD?
b. What actions were taken?
c. What actions were done by the Soroptimist Club
to help the offended party to cope up with the situation?
V. Budget
A reasonable Budget
has been approved by SIPR for the Human Rights Day
Forum (Dec. 10, 2008); likewise, for the forum to
be held in a barangay in cooperation with an LGU (March
8, 2009).
Noted by:
Sample Memorandum of
Agreement - download
here
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