[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 98 (Monday, May 23, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29527-29528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-10179]


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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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