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‘I believe that children are our future.’ says A., a 30-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea, torture and human trafficking survivor from Sinai Egypt and a mother of three children. Since she lives in Israel she gets support by ASSAF, the partner organization of Desert Rose e.V. (more…)

Today, approximately 7,000 survivors of human trafficking in the Sinai are living in Israel. Only a few of them are getting governmental aid. Our partner organization ASSAF, Aid Organization for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Israel, is offering free therapy sessions to refugees. For many Sinai survivors the only way to talk about their cruel experiences with violence and to cope with their trauma. We are raising funds for the financing of this group therapy to provide the opportunity of psychosocial support to as many torture survivors as possible. (more…)

What sounds like a set phrase, means a lot to children and adolescents of African migrant families in the district of South Tel-Aviv. They live in a country where the majority of the population thinks that migrants are unwelcome. They live in a district where prostitution and drug-related crime are forming a dangerous milieu – especially for young people without a sincere prospect. (more…)

Most stories about human trafficking in the Sinai come from Eritreans. The majority of the victims affected is from Eritrea. However, many Sinai survivors in Israel are Sudanese. One of them is Yaser Abdallh, he is willing to tell us his story. We met him on the evening of the 11th April 2016 in the Levinsky-Park in South Tel Aviv. (more…)

Casual outfit, sunglasses, a calm smile in his face. Shiden looks more like a sportsmen, waiting for his interview. Not like someone who was tortured. It seems even more bizarre when Shiden starts to tell us his testimony about his flights while we are sitting in a blooming park in Tel Aviv with birds singing around us.

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Rahel, Ingo and Lucia from Desert Rose spent a week in Tel Aviv in order to meet with Sinai trafficking victims and to visit our partner organisation there. (more…)

This year, Desert Rose e. V. has again been present at the “Thementag Afrika” (See programming) at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museem in Cologne on 24th January. Between stands with music, jewelry or culinary delicacies from different African countries, Rahel, Bisrat and Lucia provided information on abduction of East Africans in Sinai at the stand of Desert Rose e. V. (more…)

Recently, there have been no reports about torture victims from Sinai. In 2012, when reports about human trafficking were on television and in the print media, the outcry was very loud. However, as loud as it was it quickly faded. The matter vanished into thin air, as if it had never been there. (more…)

The Franco-German culture TV channel „ARTE“ showed a documentary about project “Kuchinate” Projekt “Kuchinate” in Tel Aviv on 27th August. This flagship project for women who have fled from African countries to Israel is also supported by the Desert Rose e. V. (more…)