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We are very happy to communicate with you again and talk a little about the activities that we have been able to carry out thanks to your support.

María and Juan have an organization called “Alas” that focuses on people with disabilities, at their heart it was to teach these people to prevent sexual abuse and human trafficking. During a camp with people from the organization "Alas", specifically people with visual and hearing disabilities, the workshop on prevention of human trafficking and prevention of sexual abuse was worked on, through our traffic light game material. We teach them the types of touches; good, bad and secret, as well as private parts and how to take care of themself, in this activity we attended a total of 60 people.

In addition, a workshop was held for young people on pornography and its effects and sexual abuse, which was attended by around 30 young people between 12 and 18 years old. The objective of this activity was to teach young people the consequences of consuming pornography and provide tools to identify cases of sexual abuse. The activity was carried out in a community on the outskirts of the municipality of Tecate.

Another activity was the opportunity to travel to another state in the country. With the support received and the work of the members of NMCV, the Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Intervention Program was carried out for a religious community in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. In this activity, tools were provided to apply prevention of child sexual abuse and psychological first aid to 45 people.

In addition, a Training was held in collaboration with Homeland Security Investigation. The objective of this activity was to train public officials and their team on the topics: "Human Trafficking and Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation." This event was attended by 30 participants from the different municipalities of Baja California.

In these months we had the opportunity to participate in some youth camps, one of them in the Agua Viva Ministries. Where about 100 young people between 13 and 19 years old in the municipality of Ensenada were told about the prevention of Sexting, Sextortion and Human Trafficking, as well as risk behaviors.

On the other hand, we held our annual “Sin Esclavos” congress in the Vino Nuevo Christian community in Ensenada, where the issues of raising awareness of Trafficking in Persons, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents, and Pornography were addressed. This activity was attended by religious people, the ministry and government agencies.

In addition to this, an Action Protocol Workshop was held against victims of Trafficking in Persons, aimed at officials of the Rosarito City Council. This activity was attended by 15 people, including members of Social Development, who enter the vulnerable community to bring economic or in-kind support. They stated that it is very important to know the information provided to identify people who are victims of any of these crimes.