The funding freeze for organizations that assist trafficking survivors has severely impacted their ability to provide care and shelters for those escaping scam centers. Many survivors find themselves without financial means or safe housing, often resulting in re-recruitment into the exploitative work they fled. Organizations like Blue Dragon, which has rescued over 1,700 victims, are struggling to maintain essential services. Efforts to assist survivors are threatened as funding cuts force potential layoffs and the discontinuation of support programs, leaving survivors vulnerable and without viable alternatives after their escape.
Our partners say that for some survivors they are in touch with inside the scam centers, even if they can somehow manage to get out, they then have no place to put them. Then, the survivors have no money for a flight home and no place to go, so they get re-recruited into the centers as they do not have any real alternative options.
Without a safe and dependable shelter to house them after their escape, some survivors opt to return to their exploitative work inside the scam centers despite knowing the risks.
There are shelters in neighboring countries like Cambodia and Myanmar for people who've just been rescued, and there are helplines and so on that have now lost all of their funding overnight.
We've been scrambling to work out what we can cut, how can we scale back, without losing the most direct work.
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