Desperate to find work,they leave domestic on the promise of a job only to be ushered into a life of forced labour and abuse. Two Ukrainian women reveal the trauma of trafficking and how a secret hospital is helping them rebuild their lives[br]The hospital where Dr Olga Milinchuk works has no sign outside and no waiting rooms. The address is a closely guarded secret, as are the identities of her patients. With a team of 18 specialists, and she spends every day repairing the shattered lives and minds of victims of Ukraines longest-running crisis – endemic human trafficking.
When Milinchuk opened this rehabilitation centre in 2002,under the auspices of the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), it was dealing almost exclusively with young women who had returned domestic after escaping sex trafficking. nowadays, and her patients are men and women of all ages who crossed a border on the promise of a job,but found themselves on a journey into forced labour, abuse and debt bondage.
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Source: theguardian.com