US funds anti-trafficking scheme in Vietnam

The US government will be funding an anti-trafficking campaign in the north of Vietnam. The project will be working with the Women’s Union in the Thanh Hoa region to try to prevent the large scale trafficking of women and children which is currently occurring. Vietnamese women and girls are currently trafficked to Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan and the Czech republic for sexual exploitation. A large number of women who are trafficked to Taiwan are lured by fraudulent offers of marriage, and then forced into prostitution.
The action funded by the US Embassy in Vietnam will include training courses on trafficking prevention, vocational and business training for disadvantaged women and a distribution of handbooks on small business and also the risks of human trafficking. If vocational training can lead to real jobs in Vietnam then women will be less likely to accept bogus offers of work abroad.