Abstract
Interview with Sara Donath, counsellor at FIZ Fachstelle Frauenhandel und Frauenmigration (FIZ – Advocacy and Support for Migrant Women and Victims of Trafficking, Switzerland).
 Sara Donath has counselled hundreds of survivors of trafficking and accompanied them into their new lives. We asked Sara about the experiences of these women after having experienced exploitation and violence.
Highlights
Sara Donath has counselled hundreds of survivors of trafficking and accompanied them into their new lives
Sara: Survivors of trafficking must begin a new life—but they don’t start from zero. They carry along baggage from their previous lives
Some of them to such an extent that they are very ambivalent. They want to survive but at the same time are very self-destructive. It is in this situation that survivors have to build their future
Summary
Sara Donath has counselled hundreds of survivors of trafficking and accompanied them into their new lives. FIZ: The survivors you and your colleagues counsel must build a new life. Sara: Survivors of trafficking must begin a new life—but they don’t start from zero. They carry along baggage from their previous lives. Exploitation and violence leave their marks: fear, panic attacks, sometimes a tendency to hurt oneself, mistrust of other people and so on.
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