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Meet Natalia Perry

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Meet Natalia Perry. Founder and director of the Foundation Safe Childhood, Natalia spent more than a decade to support child victims of violence worldwide. She has worked in 11 countries in 11 years, in a variety of therapeutic settings and institutions. CFS is currently based in Bali. Mission CFS is the fight against crimes against children in developing countries, including the trafficking of children, sex tourism involving children and sexual abuse of children online in Indonesia.

Meet Natalia Perry When did you visit Bali?
I came here in 2001 and fell in love with the country and its people. I also noticed the major challenges for the protection of children here and promised to return to help.

Your organization helps so many children here. What is your background?
I grew up in England amidst a beautiful and archetypal countryside with cottages. I grew up on horseback. That kept me close to nature and spirituality. To fast forward to now - a lot about Sanctuary embraces the inherent healing power of nature. I received my BA in Psychology and Neuropsychology in England. I did rape counseling and sexual abuse survivors. I worked throughout the UK with different groups of victims of young offenders, adult sex offenders, gang in the city of London. I worked with survivors of abuse for two years.

What led you to focus on young children?
The turning point for me was a boy of six years in the UK who was sold by her father, who was addicted to heroin. It was sold for sex in exchange for dad to get heroin since he was a baby. At six, he was supported. It would break his head into the wall and on the floor, so I it was held and it was really hard. I kept holding it and finally he turned to me with tears in his eyes and said, "Why? Why?! "

This was my turning point. Even if I knew why, I could not explain to a boy of six years. But it was really important for me to work out why. It was then that I understood I had to work with offenders. I did it for six months, which allowed me to get a perspective of why they do it and their behavior.

Natalia Perry When did you start your foundation here?
in 2008, I started as the Holy childhood Foundation. the period of childhood is sacred. you only have one childhood. a child abuse creates long-term problems. It has been interpreted as religious and we are not a religious organization. We had a lot of criticism. Our trustees in Australia have said that we should not use the term "sacred "because in Australia you have a lot of problems with victims coming and saying they were abused in Catholic churches and orphanages that were run by priests. This is not a good time to be associated with religious organizations. So we changed the name to the Foundation Safe Childhood.

What do mothers do while the kids are at school?
We set up a place next to mothers where they can work. It is called the Happy Workshop and provides training and employment for mothers of street children. They work for us beading, sewing, jewelry making, etc., and their children will not beg in the street. We break the cycle. We outgrew that space and we got a much larger space with medical equipment. Now, there will be regular checks and medical records will be kept. We make profiles for each child, go to their home, being aware of abuse and how we can help the situation. Now we have a complete holistic package. Our hope is that this generation of children will grow up without having to beg in the streets.

What is the biggest change you see the school?
When we started the slum school, we asked, "What if you are older you do?" they said they would have babies and go begging! This was their only reality. Now if you are those who question their arms shoot up request and they shout: "A teacher! A nurse! "They seem to take life in a different direction now.

Tell me about your school in Sulawesi.
It Makassar, Sulawesi. It there are a thousand children living and working in a landfill. our school educates 350 children per day. We teach the children into teams so they can continue working. as soon as we reduced our production, long-term plan is to have to start making jewelry and clothing to bring children completely out of the landfill.

Children Are Not For Sale

You have so many projects course!
We actually have 12 ongoing projects and also offer protection and monitoring. it involves rescuing children from abusive situations and, when necessary, to transfer them to a shelter we call the Sanctuary. It is an eco-village where safe protection and monitoring are provided for children rescued from the sex and trafficking industry.

We provide 24-hour protection and therapeutic monitoring in a beautiful natural environment. Nature heals. We support programs for reintegration into society. We are now working on awareness and protection, as well as intelligence and advocacy. CFS has started to go to five-star hotels for security workshops for children; presentations so that staff recognize sex tourism involving children and what to do about it. We provide programs for international schools, teaching the course touch and what to do if something goes wrong.

Making the Internet safe is another objective. Child pornography online is a lot in Indonesia. We work with Internet service providers to block this abusive. We work with ministries of cybercrime to keep the case going against offenders. Our media campaign hopes to posters at major airports across Indonesia. Poster reads: "If you abuse a child sexually in Indonesia is that 15 years of your life will look like." The image of prison bars.

The exploitation of children is a crime. We encourage minors to appear. In sex tourism signs may be subtle; Here in Bali, they are very subtle. We make it our business to protect the children of Indonesia.

Thank you, Natalia. If you wish to report concerns about a child or a person you think may pose a risk please contact CFS immediately.

The Safe Childhoods Foundation

Website: http://www.safechildhoods.org/
Phone :  62 [0] 81236135699
Email: info@safechildhoods.org
Reports: report@safechildhoods.org

 
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