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Why AACR

Our team has always been active in regards to human rights causes. But our organization’s first stone was laid in 2020 when a member of our team from Somalia knew someone whose son was kidnapped but when she found out about it, she had no reaction. Stating that her son is not the first and wouldn’t be the last.

This nonchalant reaction ignited the first spark that later on led to the founding of AACR.

For a bit of background, our work in university had us handling a huge amount of numbers and data that proved these catastrophic happenings over and over but nothing could prepare us for this detached reaction that has sprouted from years of normalization of this phenomenon. A change was overdue.

Be part of African communities aspiring to resilience and peace through using local resource mobilization, accumulated local knowledge, and community-generated approaches

  • Strengthen the capacity of local networks to support survivors of human trafficking &sexual violence in East Africa.

  • Establish strong community-based referral management systems for the prevention and reintegration methods of survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking through building Community Voice Action Groups in each community we partner with in East Africa.

  • Provide instant rescue services, advocacy, case management and psychosocial services to survivors of perpetual violence in conflict-inflicted zones in East Africa
  • Survivors Come First
  • Healing
  • Justice
  • Peace
  • Resilience
  • Collaboration
  • Non-Discrimination
  • To bridge the gap between the humanitarian and peacebuilding activities taking place in post-conflict zones, by deploying bottom-up solutions and community-specific activities.

  • To provide community-generated solutions by frequent mapping and assessment tools in issues covering gender-based violence, lack of education access and poor healthcare assistance in East-African communities.

  • To maintain real and tangible community-centric results by applying these solutions without any attempt for pushing pre-packaged solutions.

  • To find realistic economic answers for the survivors by connecting with businesses in the same community where they live to regain a sense of normalcy as a part of their rehabilitation; and to break the stigma when the community finds the women independent financially.

Our Services

Prevention
Protection
Partnership
Repatriation

Help is our main goal !!

  • To bridge the gap between the humanitarian and peacebuilding activities taking place in post-conflict zones, by deploying bottom-up solutions and community-specific activities.
  • To provide community-generated solutions by frequent mapping and assessment tools in issues covering gender-based violence, lack of education access and poor healthcare assistance in East-African communities.
  • To maintain real and tangible community-centric results by applying these solutions without any attempt for pushing pre-packaged solutions
  • To find realistic economic answers for the survivors by connecting with businesses in the same community where they live to regain a sense of normalcy as a part of their rehabilitation; and to break the stigma when the community finds the women independent financially.
Prevention

To ensure efficiency in our prevention strategy, we will be depicting our programmatic design after the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, which addresses social prevention measures, including addressing the adverse underlying social and economic conditions believed to contribute to the desire to migrate and hence to the vulnerability of victims to traffickers.

Which is already covered by our collaboration model with existing NGOs (non-governmental organizations) focusing on the livelihoods program provision, as well as prevention afforded by education and awareness-raising.

Protection

With the amount of trafficking and sexual exploitation in WAJIR (capital of the Wajir County of Kenya), there is no means of protection for the victims and survivors from future risks.

AACR with the help of the Ojas (Office of Judicial Administration) and the support of the government officials will renovate a building with a big open space to take in the survivors and victims, and provide the children and women with adequate psychosocial rehabilitation and healing services (Trauma-informed care will be the primary focus).

Partnership

AACR operates in total belief with alliances and local support. We tremendously believe that there is no way we can work on our mission without the support of local actors and the existing NGOs; even if we had to wait for years to build that trust.

With our meeting with the governor of Wajir, we were promised full support and a security-backed force for the protection of the shelter, and full cooperation with the police officers to capture the perpetrators for prosecution.

With the help of our paralegal team, we are ready to provide legal services to the men captured on borders, while taking the women and children to a safer haven (our shelter). We believe that these successful partnerships will be furthered more, in an attempt to create a multi-pronged approach to referral services to trafficked victims.

Repatriation

Working with families and communities where victims are intimidated to be back to is an integral part of the psychological and trauma management services provided by AACR. It is important to clarify that this service is divided into two sections:

  1. Working with families to be engaged in psychological healing and learn how to provide a support system for their children and girls who have been subjected to trafficking.

  2. Working with Worthy Vision, our partner, in identifying the socio-economic rehabilitation that could be provided to the survivors once they have to go back to their communities. Moreover, the educational opportunities should maintain the children’s tuition after leaving the shelter.