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MWP Anti-Trafficking Network: House of Treasure - Romania
- U.S. State Dept Trafficking in Persons
Report, 2011 Since the fall of the Iron Curtain former Eastern bloc countries, like Romania, have become major source countries for trafficking of women and children. Estimates as high as two-thirds of women trafficked for prostitution worldwide annually come from Eastern Europe. Today Romania ranks as one of the worst countries in the European Union for human trafficking.
Aora & Dane
He was the recruiter for a trafficking ring that forced Aora into prostitution. When Aora first realized she was expecting a child, she was scared to become a mother because---raised in an orphanage---she did not know how to be a good mother. But when she escaped and found help at the House of Treasure, the founder Iana loved Aora and began teaching her how to mother Dane. As she receives love and nurture, Aora heals a bit more each day. Soon, she and Dane will be able to move into their own apartment!
Please pray for Aora and Dane's continued healing and transition into an abundant life!
Iana Matei Iana
Matei is the founder and director of the House of Treasure
in Romania. Romania is well documented as one of the worst
countries of origin in the world for victims of human trafficking.
The House of Treasure is the only private shelter in the entire
country for victims of human trafficking.
Make Way Partners has adopted The House of Treasure into our anti-trafficking network. We are honored to provide all required funding, accountability and mission teams for the House of Treasure, as we do for all members of our anti-trafficking network.
Iana has received many awards for her selfless service, including The Hero of the Year Award, by The US State Department in 2007 for her valiant efforts against human trafficking, The House of Lords in Britain honored her with The Abolitionist Award, also in 2007, and again, for valiant efforts against human trafficking. She also received The Woman of the Year Award, in 2009 by Romanian Woman Magazine together with Avon, for the constant interest and activity in solving social issues.
The House of Treasure is a safe home for girls ranging in age from 12-25. Each girl or young woman has been rescued from the brutality of forced prostitution, rapes and beatings. In addition to her role as director, Iana is also a psychologist. The shelter also employs four certified social workers to work with Iana in providing the professional treatment these girls need on their road to healing, restoration and reintegration.
The House of Treasure
Continued repairs are needed which includes:
- $5,000 - New Tile Flooring - $15,000 - Recrational Therapy Half Basketball Court
How you can help: 1. Pray for this ministry in Romania and the girls rescued from slavery. Keep connected to updates and prayer requests through our e-newsletter! 2. Tell others! Download and pass out our House of Treasure Partnership Proposal: click here 3. Serve on a short-term mission trip to Romania: click here 4. Provide a scholarship for one of the girls at House of Treasure to receive practical job training: $2,000/year
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Romania is a source, transit, and
destination country for men, women, and children
subjected to forced labor and women and children subjected
to sex trafficking. Romanian men, women, and children are
subjected to forced labor in agriculture and manufacturing,
as well as some forced begging in Spain, Italy, the Czech
Republic, Greece, Finland, Israel, Germany, Slovenia, the
United Kingdom (UK), Cyprus, Australia, France, Belgium, and
the United States. A large proportion of the children forced
to beg in Western European countries were Romanian victims
of Roma ethnicity. Men, women, and children from Romania are
victims of forced prostitution in Italy, Sweden, Spain, the
Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Greece, Germany, Cyprus,
Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Brazil, Norway,
Hungary, Slovenia, and France. Forced labor and sex trafficking
within the country claim Romanian men, women, and children
as victims; this includes forced begging and forced petty
theft." 
Aora was raised in
a Romanian shelter before the government shut down all their
orphanages. On her graduation day---at age 16---a man Aora
did not know attended the
ceremony. The handsome, well-dressed man told Aora that he
had a business and offered her a job in his
company. Aora trustingly went with him. 
House
of Treasure is more than a shelter for girls rescued from
sex slavery, it is a home that offers a
safe, welcoming environment where holistic healing can take
place in broken hearts and lives. Make Way Partners has done
significant work to improve the living conditions at the House
of Treasure and more work is needed. Since 2009, through the
help of grants, partnerships and short-term mission teams
MWP has improved the conditions of the home with a new roof,
new storage room, new sewing room for job training, plumbing
repairs and a new fence to heighten security. Additionally,
our short term teams and the girls worked side-by-side to
freshly paint the interior walls in bright colors chosen by
the girls living there.