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Sexual Health And Drugs Outreach Work

The Sex Workers Project

By adopting a harm reduction and outreach model this project aims at protecting the safety of sex workers who by choice, circumstance, or coercion remain in the 'street work' side of the industry. The staff go on outreach to find street sex workers where they are working and meet them on their terms where they are most comfortable.

Harm Reduction is founded upon a set of basic principles:

People who use or misuse drugs can and do make positive changes that lead to their physical, emotional and sexual health, that of their families and even that of the wider community being protected.

The service should meet people where they are rather than expecting them to conform to where we want them to be.

The service users have a role (indeed a critical role) in shaping the services they need.

In this the service seeks to document the lives of sex workers and put a human face on the violations that many sex workers are subject to.

In providing this service there is also another story: that of the staff. All of the team are volunteers and all go on to the streets at night after completing other day jobs.

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