Escape Truck: Nearly 1,000 young people learned to recognize human trafficking through interactive experiencetranslated

The National Agency Against Trafficking in Persons (ANITP) has recently carried out a series of innovative and very effective activities in preventing and combating human trafficking. From the Netherlands was brought the Escape Truck, an innovative experiential education tool for teenagers, young adults and future police officers.

Inside the truck, living the experience of a trafficked person, they were able to discover the answers to the questions:

How can you end up in the situation of being recruited to be trafficked? What are the vulnerabilities traffickers take advantage of? How can we recognize the signs that a person is a victim of exploitation?

Concept The young people discovered inside the truck the life of a traffic victim and her story, understanding them from her perspective and thus identifying the dangers and risks for themselves. Photo credit: World Vision Romania The experience inside the educational truck was based on two scenarios dedicated to the main forms of exploitation found at the national level, namely sexual exploitation and forced labor exploitation.

Starting from the real stories of some victims, the participants have…