[Federal Register: May 23, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 98)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[CFDA93.598]
Notice; Grant Award Announcement
AGENCY: Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and
Families, HHS.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding three grants for the
purpose of implementing the Department's responsibilities under the
President's Initiative on Human Trafficking.
Awards will be made for a twelve month grant period to:
The Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition (BSCC) of San Diego, CA, in the
amount of $476,000 for a project in Mexico;
World Vision of Washington, DC, in the amount of $497,983 for a project
in Mexico;
World Vision of Washington, DC, in the amount of $497,983 for a project
in Brazil.
The purpose of the grant to BSCC is to interdict the flow of
victims or potential victims of human trafficking into the United
States by undertaking educational activities and screening through
health facilities in the vicinity of the border with the United States.
The purpose of the grants to World Vision is to replicate in Mexico and
Brazil their distinctive program to impede sex tourism, pioneered in
Southeast Asia and Costa Rica. These grants are being awarded non-
competitively pursuant to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between
ACF and the HHS Office of Global Health Affairs; the vetting of
recipients occurred prior to the allocation of funding to the
Department of Health and Human Services by the grants subcommittee,
Senior Policy Operating Group on Human Trafficking.
BSCC is deemed to be the only organization which has the expertise
and infrastructure to partner with HHS
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on this project along the US-Mexican border, by virtue of its extensive
experience combating human trafficking, and its extensive institutional
presence in that region. BSCC, a coalition of over 40 government and
nonprofit agencies in the United States and Mexico, is the only
bilateral project devoted to addressing the transient nature of human
trafficking (anywhere in the world). BSCC will utilize its singular
network of relationships with organizations in Mexican border
communities to its implement this project, and will draw on its well-
established public awareness and educational expertise, which focuses
on ``prevention'' through community outreach to at-risk populations and
groups, and ``intervention'' by educating and training legal and law
enforcement personnel to locate and intervene in trafficking
situations.
World Vision is deemed to be the only organization that has
implemented a targeted international media campaign in partnership with
travel and tourism companies and national governments targeting would-
be sex tourists in destination countries with deterrent anti-
trafficking messages. The project's ad campaign, designed to deter
Americans who exploit children in the commercial sex trade overseas,
now is placed in multiple media, including in-flight videos, billboards
and street signs, printed ads in local tourist publications, and
internet banner ads. World Vision has successfully implemented this
anti-sex tourism project in Cambodia, Thailand and Costa Rica, drawing
on its long-term presence on-the-ground in these countries, which
helped it to establish extensive relationships with governments and
local media companies. In addition to having the programmatic model for
addressing sex tourism, World Vision is the only organization that
possesses the capability and the institutional capacity to implement
this same program simultaneously in Brazil and Mexico. World Vision has
been operational in both countries for more than 40 years, and through
this long-term presence on-the-ground, World Vision has established
extensive relationships with governments and local media in these two
countries as well. World Vision has the unique ability to effectively
implement this program of its own design within in the very short time
constraints of this project.
For more information regarding these awards, contact: Dr. Nguyen
Van Hanh, Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for
Children and Families, 901 D Street, SW., 6th Floor East, Washington,
DC 20447, (202) 401-9246.
Dated: May 17, 2005.
Nguyen Van Hanh,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement.
[FR Doc. 05-10179 Filed 5-20-05; 8:45 am]
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