CAPACITY BUILDING FOR VICTIMS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN DUNDEE (360G-SCVO-a0gb000000Q9xYGAAZ)

Sexual exploitation has become widespread in Dundee city affecting vulnerable people, young care leavers and ethnic minority women and girls. Due to the economic cuts, most vulnerable women and girls in Dundee city are at risk of being involved in sexual exploitation. Those mostly at risk are women and girls drug addiction and alcohol problems and young care leavers who cannot access further support from the government due to the economic cuts in local authority services. We would like to expand and develop capacity of our organisation to be able to meet the support demands and raise awareness on the risks of sexual exploitation in Dundee. We will use the funds to recruit a sessional worker who will help in the delivery of this project. This project will target to work with 15 young care leavers and vulnerable people with drug and alcohol problems at risk of sexual exploitation. The sessional worker will also recruit and train 5 volunteers to help in raising awareness, street outreach activities, and reaching out to the most vulnerable and hard to reach and at risk of sexual exploitation. The worker will create a dedicated team of volunteers to help young care leavers access housing support and help them to build skills that will enable them to avoid getting into sexual exploitation. Our project is innovative as we are trying to reach out to the most vulnerable people who due to the cuts in government spending they are at risk of being involved in risky behaviours such as sexual exploitation to earn some money for drugs, alcohol and even food. By reaching out such people and supporting them our project will help them turn their lives around for better.