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### Viewing cable 09SANJOSE40, COSTA RICA - NOMINATION FOR 2009 TIP HERO

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09SANJOSE40 | 2009-01-26 15:03 | 2011-03-21 16:04 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy San Jose

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    VZCZCXYZ0000
    PP RUEHWEB

    DE RUEHSJ #0040/01 0261508
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    P 261508Z JAN 09
    FM AMEMBASSY SAN JOSE
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 0436
    INFO RUEHZA/WHA CENTRAL AMERICAN COLLECTIVE PRIORITY

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    UNCLAS SAN JOSE 000040

    SIPDIS, SENSITIVE

    DEPARTMENT FOR WHA/CEN, WHA/PPC SMiller, G/TIP BFleck.

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: PREL PHUM KTIP CS
    SUBJECT: COSTA RICA - NOMINATION FOR 2009 TIP HERO

    REF: SECSTATE 132759

    ¶1. (U) Embassy San Jose is pleased to nominate Mariliana Morales
    Berros, founder and Executive Director of the Rahab Foundation
    (Fundacisn Rahab) as a 2009 TIP Hero, per reftel.

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    NOMINEE DATA
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    ¶2. (U) Nominee: Mariliana Morales Berros.

    ¶3. (U) Title and Institution: Founder and Executive Director of the
    Rahab Foundation (Fundacisn Rahab).

    ¶4. (SBU) Date of Birth: December 25, 1956.

    ¶5. (SBU) Contact Information: Phone: (506)2257-7785 or
    (506)2222-1054; mobile (506) 8858-0589; personal email -
    mariliana777@hotmail.com.

    ¶6. (SBU) Passport Number and Citizenship: 8.011.896-1, Chile.

    ¶7. (SBU) Personal Background:  Mariliana Morales was born in the
    northern Chilean Atacama desert.  She is married to Chilean Tomas
    Goi Cortes, and they have three children.  While she lived in Chile,
    her boyfriend at the time (now her husband) became a political
    prisoner at age 16.  When he was freed from prison, the two married
    and left Chile for Costa Rica in search of a better life.  They
    arrived in February 1982.  Mariliana studied Sociology and received
    her masters degree in Social Work from the University of Costa
    Rica.

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    JUSTIFICATION
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    ¶8. (U) Since 1997, Morales has steadfastly, and at times under
    direct personal threat, built and maintained a faith-based framework
    to help victims of commercial sexual exploitation and their
    children.  Her efforts have helped train and sensitize thousands of
    judicial and law enforcement personnel to trafficking and sexual
    exploitation issues, and more importantly, provided direct
    assistance to hundreds of women and their families in San Jose, Jaco
    and Limon, Costa Rica.  Her Rahab Foundation is the leading NGO
    working with international organizations, local embassies and the
    GOCR to stop commercial sexual exploitation and related trafficking
    in persons in Costa Rica.  Morales has made an enormous, positive
    impact on the way the GOCR deals with these issues, and on the
    victims themselves.

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    BACKGROUND
    ----------

    ¶9. (U) After what Morales describes as an existential crisis that
    led to her belief in God, she prayed to be shown a way in which she
    could serve.  In answer, she received a vision of the word
    "prostitution" across the sky and knew she was meant to help empower
    women who wanted to leave prositution.  On November 12, 1997, she
    created the Rahab Foundation (Fundacisn Rahab) by helping one woman.
     Within a month, 30 victims of commercial sexual exploitation and
    their children had sought her help.  To accomplish its mission, the
    Rahab Foundation relies on Morales, two to three
    psychologists/social workers, and  volunteers.In fact, Rahab and
    Morales have become so well known for their dedicated work that
    international interns and volunteers, as well as Costa Ricans, have
    been assisting the Foundation.

    ¶10. (U) With the creation of the Rahab Foundation, Morales became a
    pioneer in Costa Rica in assistance to victims of commercial sexual
    exploitation and trafficking.  Currently, Rahab is also helping male
    victims of commercial sexual exploitation, including transvestites.
    Morales' efforts have helped these victims find a new life with
    their families.

    ¶11. (U) Morales' task has not been easy. She has struggled every
    step of the way to find funding to keep the program going, often
    operating only on faith that resources would appear.  For example,
    even when she could not pay salaries, she moved ahead with a new
    $100,000 building project to provide facilities for vocational
    training, a daycare, and space where the program beneficiaries would
    be able to run micro businesses, such as a hair salon.  She, her
    staff, and their families have been threatened and/or attacked for
    trying to help women and children escape from their exploiters.

    ¶12. (U)  Mariliana and her family often receive direct threats by
    telephone at home.  Also, while operating an anti-trafficking
    project funded by the International Labor Organization in Limon (see
    para 15), one of the Foundation's staff psychologists was threatened
    in order to stop her from rescuing child victims of sexual
    exploitation.  When the staffer did not back down, her  two younger
    sisters were successively kidnapped and raped.  Although that
    psychologist ultimately resigned, threats of this nature have not
    deterred Mariliana and others in the Foundation from continuing
    their work.

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    THE FOUNDATION
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    ¶13. (U) Rahab assists victims through a socio-educational program
    that provides spiritual attention, education, nutrition,
    psychological assistence and vocational training to the victims.
    Morales created a job pool by networking with private companies,
    thereby providing opportunities for reintegration and medical/legal
    attention.  (Social medical benefits are coordinated through
    workplaces in Costa Rica).  Rahab provides educational scholarships,
    and victims can complete their primary school education at Rahab's
    facility.

    ¶14. (U) Since its creation, Rahab has helped more than 600 families,
    usually headed by a single mother, with an average of five children
    each (for a total of 3000 persons served) in the San Jose area
    alone, and many more outside of San Jose.  The organization has
    given 11 houses to victims through a partnership with the Costa
    Rican government, and it hopes to provide 44 more residences in the
    coming months - all free to the recipients.

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    NATIONAL IMPACT
    ---------------

    ¶15. (U) Rahab developed two very important projects in rural areas
    with USG funding - one in Limon and one in Jaco.  Drugs,
    prostitution and trafficking in persons are common crimes in these
    two areas.  In 2003, Mariliana instituted a pioneer two-year project
    in the port city of Limon called "Prevention, Protection and Direct
    Assistance to Child Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation."  The
    project, which served as a model for Central America, Panama and the
    Dominican Republic, directly served 464 minors and their families;
    it reached 3000 more indirectly.

    ¶16. (U) In addition, Rahab trained government institutions that
    worked with children such as:  the Child Welfare Agency (Patronato
    Nacional de la Infancia, in Spanish), the Fuerza Pblica (national
    police), the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, the
    federal investigative police, indigenous communities, tourism
    companies, judges and prosecutors, among others, on the topic of
    child sexual exploitation.  The project was funded by the U.S.
    Department of Labor; management support for the grant was provided
    by the International Labor Organization (ILO).

    ¶17. (U) From 2006 to 2008, Morales and Rahab ran a program called
    "Prevention, Protection and Assistance to Victims and Potential
    Victims of Trafficking in Persons in the Central Pacific Region" in
    the seedy tourist area in and around the resort town of Jaco.  The
    program was funded by State's G/TIP with management support from the
    International Organization for Migration (IOM).  This was a true
    pioneer project in the country to assist both national and foreign
    victims of labor and sexual exploitation.

    ¶18. (U) The project directly served 347 victims and their families,
    and reached 5000 people in the community.  As in the Limon project,
    Morales implemented a "train the trainer approach" to teach the same
    government institutions, local police and mayors, tourism companies
    and minors about trafficking in persons, for a total of 5191
    trained.  During the Jaco project, Rahab filed several official
    complaints against traffickers and sexual exploiters, leading to
    threats and attacks against Morales and her staff.

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    REGIONAL EFFORTS
    ----------------

    ¶19. (U) Since 2006, Morales has served as coordinator of the Latin
    American and Caribbean International Christian Alliance on
    Prostitution.  In that capacity, Morales is organizing a conference
    for March 2009 to train 150 organizational leaders and individuals
    to work in the "restoration" of victims of commercial sexual
    exploitation.

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    RECOGNITION
    -----------

    ¶20. (U) For her outstanding work, Morales received the 1999 Gandhi
    Foundation and Martin Luther King Foundation "Builder of
    Non-Violence" award, and she is the two-time recipient of the Costa
    Rican National Ombudsman's award for contributing to bettering the
    lives of victims of commercial sexual exploitation.

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    EMBASSY POC
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    ¶21. (U) Embassy San Jose's contact until April 8 is PolOff Cheryl
    Neely; phone: 506-2519-2256; email: NeelyCL@state.gov.  After April
    8, 2009, Embassy contact is Tyler Sparks, same phone,
    SparksTK@state.gov.

    CIANCHETTE

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