Eve Mbuywana Liswaniso works to assist migrants and juveniles who come into conflict with the law. She provides legal representation, social support and advocacy for a restorative justice system in Zambia. Eve offers free legal services to vulnerable migrants through our legal help desks at various correctional facilities in Zambia. 

IVLP Impact Award Project: Fore-warned

This project created multiple campaigns to raise awareness of human trafficking taking place in the border areas of the Sesheke district in Zambia. These campaigns distributed informational booklets and brochures to communities and basic schools. The books highlighted different trafficking situations and the brochures explained what human trafficking is, who can be trafficked, the forms of trafficking, how to identify situations of trafficking, how to report such cases and the role of the community. Drama groups were used to bring community members to listen these important messages.

In total, 34 project participants were trained to distribute the informational manuals into schools and government offices to share knowledge on how to identify human trafficking and how to report cases. District social welfare officers also offered psychosocial services and free family therapy sessions with former human trafficking victims and set up a support group which has since been continued. The project has had a lasting impact because it equipped local communities with the knowledge to identify and prevent human trafficking from continuing to take place.

IVLP Exchange Experience 

Eve was a participant in the IVLP Project Combating Trafficking in Persons organized by the U.S. Department of State and Meridian International Center.

Eve's exchange experience led to the development of her IVLP Impact Award Project: "I talked to over 500 people and distributed all the 750 comic books, brochures and booklets that I carried to the project district. The response from the communities I visited was so overwhelming."

U.S. Communities Visited Virtually 

Denver, CO; Washington, DC; Minneapolis, MN; Portland, OR; San Antonio, TX

Country: Zambia

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