US embassy cable - 05MAPUTO566

UNCLAS MAPUTO 000566 
 
SIPDIS 
AF/RSA - BOB ZUEHLKE, G/TIP - FELICIA STEVENS 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAID, KCRM, KDEM, KWMN, PHUM, SMIG, ASEC, MZ, Trafficking in Persons 
SUBJECT: EMBASSY MAPUTO SMALL PROJECTS FUND FOR 
ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS EFFORTS 
 
REF: A. STATE 78536 
 
B. STATE 8083 
 
1. The following is response to Action Request (Ref A). 
 
2.-- Project Title: Transit and Reintegration Assistance 
for Mozambican Women and Children Repatriated from South 
Africa 
-- Amount of Funding: 12,000 U.S. dollars 
-- Implementing Organization: FECIV - Institute for Civic 
Education 
-- Explanation of Project: Transit and reintegration 
assistance will be provided to unaccompanied minors and 
women with children who have been repatriated and wish to 
return to their home communities in Mozambique. The 
project will primarily benefit women and children who have 
been trafficked to South Africa, but assistance will be 
provided also to other vulnerable women and children, where 
possible. The Moamba Reception Center for Unaccompanied 
Minors and Women with Children will receive the 
beneficiaries and provide the necessary accommodation and 
support. Beneficiaries will remain at the Moamba Reception 
Center for approximately seven to 15 days. During this 
period the beneficiary's home community will be located and 
a basic needs assessment conducted, in cooperation with a 
local NGO, to determine the kind of reintegration 
assistance to support the beneficiaries. As a basic 
population stabilization incentive, each beneficiary will 
receive a small reintegration grant to be disbursed on a 
weekly basis by a local NGO for a period of three months, 
on condition that the beneficiary is attending school 
and/or that she is involved in a designated community 
development project, and that she collects the grant in 
person. Embassy Small Project Funds would be used for 
furniture for the Moamba Reception Center, food, medicine, 
travel assistance, telephone bills, and part of the 
salaries for a cook and guard at the Center. 
 
3. Comment: We believe that this project could easily 
benefit from additional assistance beyond the USD 12,000 
amount listed above. The Moamba Reception Center is still 
under construction (emboff visited the site several days 
ago), so the anticipated number of 500 returnees assisted 
in the year is only an educated guess at the moment. The 
co-director of the project, Lea Boaventura, the Mozambican 
director of Terre des Hommes Germany, went to the U.S. in 
2004 as an International Visitor Program grantee, with a 
focus on anti-trafficking. While in the U.S. she visited 
several "safe houses" for trafficking victims. The Moamba 
Reception Center is designed in part from what she learned 
while visiting the U.S. 
 
4. Comment Continued: Once the project is up and running, 
considerably more information will come to light about the 
dimensions of the trafficking in persons (TIP) problem from 
Mozambique to South Africa. Apart from helping the actual 
victims transiting the center, this project, then, will 
greatly benefit future efforts to counter TIP activity 
here. 
LA LIME