A/HRC/41/46 56. Since March 2017, the Bright Future programme, an employment programme developed by the Co-operative Group (Co-op) together with charity partners, in the United Kingdom, has been providing survivors with a pathway to paid employment. The programme offers survivors a four-week paid work placement leading to a non-competitive interview. If both elements are successful, the candidate is offered a full-time job. Fourteen businesses across various sectors of the economy have so far signed up to the programme. More than 50 survivors are said to have taken part in the Bright Future programme so far, and it is envisaged that up to 300 will have secured placements through the programme by 2020. Promoting trafficked persons’ education, including their professional and vocational training (b) 57. Accessing the job market may be difficult for trafficked persons lacking education. Promoting survivors’ economic empowerment requires vocational training, skills certification, job placement, microcredit, and entrepreneurship business plans, as well as soft skills counselling – such as on how to prepare a résumé or prepare for a job interview, how to interact with employers and colleagues, and how to identify potentially abusive job advertisements. 58. As an innovative model of social inclusion, the Special Rapporteur has been impressed by the work carried out by the Free a Girl NGO, in the context of the School for Justice project implemented in India and Nepal. In India, the project is carried out together with its partner Sanlaap, and in Nepal with its partner Sasane. The project provides survivors of trafficking for sexual exploitation with courses in the fields of law, social work, police work and journalism, with a view to training them to become public prosecutors and lawyers and to work in other related professions. Around 15 students have enrolled in the first two Schools for Justice operating in the two countries, and the NGO now aspires to open more schools. This unique project empowers beneficiaries professionally and gives them the opportunity to play a significant role in fighting impunity. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Centre for Studies on Leadership and Promotion of Human Rights carries out laudable work despite enormous challenges: it reports having provided access to education for 50 girl survivors of sexual slavery and 30 former child soldiers per year.43 Projects of this kind should be replicated on a larger scale and more funds should be invested into providing scholarships for university, as not all survivors wish to be employed after being trafficked but would rather invest in their formal education, especially in cases where they were compelled to abandon school as a result of being trafficked and were never given the chance to complete their studies afterwards. 59. In Brazil, the International Labour Organization supports a project that offers professional training for individuals in high-risk situations or rescued from slavery-like working conditions, which is followed by work opportunities in different sectors, such as agriculture and construction.44 In Greece, the AB Vassilopoulos supermarket chain conducts vocational training for survivors of trafficking, with the aim of either employing them or referring them to other enterprises. In Chile, the authorities work in collaboration with the Catholic Institute of Migration and the NGO Raíces to provide advice, support and liaison along with private companies to get survivors into employment. In countries of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, a project that began in 2015 involves municipalities identifying and integrating trafficked persons into society, through specific guidelines, including in terms of job placement.45 43 44 45 16 Submission to the Special Rapporteur from the Centre for Studies on Leadership and Promotion of Human Rights. See www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/features/WCMS_506150/lang--en/index.htm. See www.cbss.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Guidelines-for-Municipalities-ENG.pdf.