About us

Yael Schoultz's anti-trafficking training group, 2023/2024

Who Are We?

L'Chaim z.s. was established as an NGO September 20, 2022.

The association is a voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit association located in the Czech Republic focused on the support and empowerment of those engaged in the sex industry, both voluntarily and involuntarily.

This includes education, awareness, and field work pertaining to human trafficking and exploitation of sex industry workers.

Our Vision

The association is a voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit association located in the Czech Republic and focused on the support and empowerment of those engaged in the sex industry, both voluntarily and involuntarily.

This includes education, awareness and field work pertaining to human trafficking and exploitation of sex industry workers.

Our Goals

Skills Training

Provide skills training to sex industry workers to empower them for broader job opportunities.

Work with Local Organizations

Be a bridge between sex industry workers and organisations that can aid in their empowerment.

Fight Discrimination

Fight against social discrimination and marginalisation which contributes to the disempowerment of those working in the sex industry, for example, human trafficking.

Work with Local Government 

Be a bridge between sex industry workers and state authorities, including law enforcement bodies.

Prevention & Intervention

Prevent and intervene in human trafficking through school education programmes, for example, among the Roma/Sinti and other marginalised and at risk populations.

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Yael Schoultz

Founder of L'Chaim z.s.

Yael Schoultz, D.Min., is the Founder and Director of L'Chaim NGO which reaches out to women engaged in the sex industry. Originally from South Africa, she moved to the Czech Republic in 2011 to start her PhD studies and later completed a D.Min. focused on anti-trafficking training curriculum that is faithful to the embodied encounters of volunteers and sex industry workers.

She has been visiting women in prostitution in the Czech republic since 2011. She has collaborated with various organisations with regards to anti-trafficking work, including La Strada, Amnesty International, the European Freedom Network, The National Freedom Network (of South Africa), to name a few. She regularly gives awareness talks on modern slavery and forced prostitution, and has done so in South Africa, the USA, and all around the Czech Republic.

She is an expert in the field of anti-human trafficking and is currently writing a book on the topic with a specific focus on the Czech republic. When not engaged in anti-trafficking work she is usually engaged in activities at her local synagogue or travelling. 

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