The Association promotes the idea that no local administration can be indifferent to exploitation and hide behind a presumed local competence. The fact that some situations are more easily localized does not exclude the possibility of considering them as situations that affect the province generally (at an administrative level), because there are principles of solidarity which need to be shared apart from micro-territorial contingencies. Besides, if we want to examine the case of sex work on the roads, the most visible form, clients tend to move away from their local area to other places where they can find paid sex. So at least one of the contractors of paid sex can live in a totally different area from where the sexual exchange has occurred.

The support structures run by the association are far from the commercial sexwork areas, for obvious safety reasons, and the girls under social protection are helped to find their own independent living accommodations (assisted locally by the association).
For these reasons, and perhaps due to the greater awareness grown over the years, social protection is sustained by many local authorities that are not directly involved in prostitution.
Numerous local bodies have given economic support to the initiatives of Free Woman, by adhering to the Opportunity project. These bodies are listed in our website under Projects.

Our network consists of contacts among different services to facilitate communication and collaboration for the benefit of the users.
The association contributes to the creation, development and implementation on a local basis of a network of resources, both formal and informal, able to guarantee an effective possibility of accessing the basic services and to create an opportunity of social and work inclusion. It freely offers its experience to other bodies and organizations in order to provide grassroot services and solutions.

Network activity is carried out on different levels:
- raising awareness among local communities in order to create a network of solidarity among associations, groups and families.
- contacts with socio-health services, work and training services, support structures, orientation and help sponsored by bodies and non-profit organizations.
- institutional work for decision-making bodies, participation at regional and provincial councils on trafficking, at the local council for immigration, with the ad hoc group on trafficking in the Ancona Police Department, at the Provincial Council on prostitution and trafficking, the Permanent Intercommunal Council.
- work with other organizations involved in the specific sector f trafficking both local, national and international.
- Collaboration with operators and directors of the Immigration Office and Mobile Squad of the Ancona Police Department regarding problems related to residence permits.

The Opportunity Project is in close touch with other similar initiatives, mainly in the Centre-North of Italy, exchanging experience, information, making sure that people entering social protection are sent as far away as possible from a potentially dangerous area and putting people sent from other areas under social protection for the same reasons.

The Association has also organized two conferences in collaboration with the city of Loreto:

Trafficking and territory. Integrated services in application of art. 18 D. Lgs 286/98
Loreto, June 23, 2005

The Window In Front. Sites and types of prostitution in the Ancona province.
Loreto, May 17, 2006

Tratta e territorio. Servizi integrati nell’applicazione dell’art.18 D.Lgs 286/98 (Trafficking and territory. Integrated services in application of art. 18 D. Lgs 286/98). Loreto, June 23, 2005

La Finestra di fronte. Luoghi e forme della prostituzione nella provincia di Ancona (The Window In Front. Sites and types of prostitution in the Ancona province). Loreto, May 17, 2006