Introduction
Active since 2008, Equality is an NGO directly engaged in the protection of trafficked people.
The mission of the organization is to support victims of trafficking, any form of exploitation, sex work and minors, focusing on anything that can contribute to the prevention of distress and fragility, including strategic intervention with learning community and prevention with a constant look at the territorial needs. Equality aims to manage social-health and educational services and any type of training, dissemination, study, research, and awareness-raising activities, in a spirit of cooperation with other entities having their mission in line with its scope.
Services and Activities
Reception Area
High-threshold service dedicated to supporting the beneficiaries in social and labour inclusion process. Beneficiaries are unaccompanied foreign minors, victims of trafficking and minors and young adults in specific vulnerable conditions.
Antitrafficking Area
Including low-threshold services addressed to sex workers and to people at risk of exploitation, presumed or potential victims of trafficking or severe exploitation (mobile outreach units). The team provides the assessment of potential or presumed victims, the prompt and initial assistance of persons involved in trafficking and exploitation and the social inclusion of beneficiaries in protection programmes
Community Development Area
Initiatives and actions on combating educational poverty, drop out, specific raising awareness activities at school, training for families and teachers. Learning communitiesâ activities include: training modules on gender-based violence and the functioning of stereotypes; Migration Flows: Social Inclusion, false myths about migration flows and migrants to combat racism and discrimination; the phenomenon of trafficking in human beings and severe exploitation (sexual, labour, begging, forced marriage, forced criminality).
Communication Area
The specific objective of this area is to promote and disseminate a different narrative and a positive vision of the phenomena that determine social change. Within the framework of a more articulated system of institutional protection, the aim is to contribute to reducing social exclusion, to provide concrete and competent support to inclusion projects and policies for the governance of the change of society in a multi-cultural sense. We call social communities to action in the development of social dialogue and knowledge of diversity, because the fight against social exclusion of young people and persons with fragility is, in short, a form of safeguarding a âcommon goodâ.
Marginality Area
Services addressed to users of legal and illegal psychoactive substances The staff consists of 36 employees and 4 permanent consultants. The teams are multidisciplinary having different and complementary backgrounds: psychologists, social workers, educators, anthropologists, lawyers.
The methodology
All activities and services Equality offers are based on participation and active listening, a systemic-relational approach focused on the recipients, who are considered active agents, able to consciously participate in the choices that concern them, if adequately supported.