How do women affected by human trafficking get to Austria? Why do they even get involved in all of this in the first place? Why don’t they just run away? We receive many questions about our trainees and have noticed that there is still a lot of prejudice and a lot of misconceptions about forced prostitution in …
Joana – a trainee from HOPE FOR THE FUTURE shares her heartbreaking Story Read More »
Housework, cleaning work, care work – these are all jobs that are barely or poorly paid and thus suggest a high number of unreported cases of human trafficking. Modern slavery also takes place in Austrian private households, as cleaning, care and nursing staff usually cannot be fully remunerated, and these sectors are not given enough …
AREAS OF LABOUR EXPLOITATION Care and support The workers concerned are often placed through agencies in their Eastern European home countries. They are lured to Austria with relatively high wages. In addition to a high placement fee for the carers, a considerable amount of their wages is taken for accommodation. The families of the people …
I have been teaching German as a foreign language at Hope for the Future since May 2020. I am also studying social work and educational science at a university of applied sciences. In 2015 I completed my German trainer course in Vienna and support people in various marginalised groups. Our target group are people who …