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Prostitutes in the Netherlands will be able to get help and support if they want to stop prostitution. Now that only happens in larger cities where support agencies offering exit programs.
Minister Ivo Opstelten (VVD, security and justice) suggests the next four years, three million euros per year for prostitutes who want to escape the sex industry steps a helping hand. With that money, a nationwide network can be realized, with bodies which prostitutes can guide you in the direction of education, work and social and social work.
That in twelve regions, according to a letter from Minister Opstelten he sends to the House today. The SGP and Christian Union expressed their concern last year about the limited availability of exit programs for prostitutes. In 2008, all such utilities set up in various municipalities with grants from the government, local authorities and welfare organizations. But that made the minister yet for a nationwide network.
According Opstelten municipalities may offer good support to prostitutes who are tired of the profession. Last year showed a report from Regional Plan on the state of affairs that about 1750 prostitutes had used the support since the start of the exit programs. More than a thousand of them have been really gestapt.Zo from prostitution can be a prostitute in The Hague region who wants to quit will soon report to an organization such as the Foundation for Assistance and Relief Prostitutes (Shop) in The Hague.
She or he is then received by social workers who are the future opportunities to discuss with the client. “For example, it looks at the skills of the man or woman, as the social skills that require a prostitute has had at home, work behind the window in a private house or in a club. They must still learn that applying “quality correctly Shop says director Maria Scali. “Sex workers have greatly suffer from stigma. That work, they can not put on their resume, because people find it dirty, vulgar or criminal. While these men and women can be. Quite enterprising example they would be sole-in care to can work. If necessary, they can be trained. “
Releasing the standard of living that the prostitutes are used due to the relatively high income, according Scali no problem for sex workers that really consciously choose from to switch the sector. With the money now comes from the minister, Scali is seeking cooperation with educational institutions, employers, but also with agencies that prostitutes may help to gain employment.
During the trip route can also be offered to help other areas such as finding a suitable property, debt and aid in rehabilitation from an addiction or psychosocial problems and increase their own resilience.
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