What is the Girls' Support Service project?
The Children's Legal Centre (CLC) has been working to promote and implement children's rights in Tajikistan for the past seven years.
The CLC set up the Girls' Support Service project in 2009, which aims to raise awareness of sexual abuse, exploitation and trafficking of girls across Tajikistan, and specifically to provide social work, psychological and legal support for girls falling within the 'target group'. I volunteered to work with the project for three months and have just returned to the UK.
The project targets girls aged between 10 and 18 who are either at risk of, or have been subjected to, sexual abuse, exploitation or trafficking. Sexual abuse in families and opportunistic sexual abuse by strangers occurs in Tajikistan as in any other country. The project offers social work and/or legal support, which may include a residential placement for up to six months at the project's support centre, placement in a semi-independent unit or the provision of outreach services.
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