Archives for April 2016

#TakeMeOffMute™Lagos!

April 9, 2016- LAGOS, NIGERIA.  In partnership with CGMI Lagos, we sounded the alarm in Lagos, Nigeria with the arrival of our #TakeMeOffMute™ anti-child sex abuse campaign on April 9, 2016. Hundreds of children gathered to be educated on the dangers of child sex abuse and to learn how to defend themselves mentally, emotionally and physically against […]

#Not4Sale Anti-Trafficking Workshop

April 6, 2016- BENIN CITY, NIGERIA.  Before a crowd of over 300 women, Pathfinders’ #Not4Sale Campaign Workshop boldly addressed the terrifying implications of sex trafficking in Edo State, Nigeria, the hub of sex trafficking in Africa: (1) the reality that 6/10 people trafficked to the West are from Nigeria; (2) the fact that of that number, […]

The Naked Truth About Sex Trafficking!

Sex trafficking is defined by the United Nations as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by improper means (such as force, abduction, fraud, or coercion) for the purpose of sexual exploitation.  Around the world, over 20 million people are trapped in modern day slavery, which is often accompanied by debt bondage.  The overwhelming majority of […]

‘Letters to Our Daughters: Hope Endures’ Photo Essay

On April 14, 2014, 276 girls ages 16-18 were kidnapped by Boko Haram insurgents from their school in Chibok, Nigeria. 57 of them courageously escaped on their own. 0 have been rescued and 219 remain in the hands of the world’s deadliest terrorist organization whose members force grown men to swallow bullets for breakfast and […]