We are grateful to Action Aid Nigeria for the opportunity to provide support for 20 program beneficiaries who were either able to successfully learn a skill or start a small business through the ‘Pathway to Post COVID-19 Freedom’ Project. Using our 12-Point Vulnerability Indicator, the Project sought to identify survivors of sex trafficking who […]
UNODC Releases 2020 Global Report on TIP
February 2, 2021
GENEVA- FEBRUARY 2, 2021. Today, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released its 2020 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. The Report, which is produced every 2 years, culls government reported figures from 148 countries worldwide and provides four thematic chapters: Chapter 2 (examines how poor socioeconomic conditions are used by traffickers to […]
‘The Pathfinder Project’, Our Social Enterprise, Continues to Support Our Survivors
February 2, 2021
The Pathfinder Project is our social enterprise, the arm of our work which generates innovative ways to continue to support our work and the growing businesses which we have helped our survivors start. We encourage our survivors to think outside the proverbial small business model box in Nigeria, i.e., businesses that are limited to tailoring […]
Pathfinders Organizes Successful 2-Day Training on Human Trafficking for Law Enforcement Officers, Judges and Prosecutors
January 21, 2021
BENIN CITY, NIGERIA. On January 19-20, 2021, Pathfinders successfully organized a 2-day capacity building training for 50 law enforcement officers, judges and prosecutors on human trafficking in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The training, which built on learnings from Nigeria’s first ever Gap Analysis (also organised by Pathfinders in June 2019), focused on three thematic […]
Pathfinders Conducts Successful 2-Day Workshop for Service Providers of Rehabilitation for Survivors and Returnees
January 16, 2021
BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. On January 14-15, 2021, building on the learnings from Nigeria’s first ever Gap Analysis on human trafficking which identified gaps in Nigeria’s rehabilitation, law enforcement and research responses to human trafficking (conducted by Pathfinders in June 2019), Pathfinders trained 50 service providers who support survivors of trafficking and sexual trauma on […]
Pathfinders Celebrates Our Graduating Survivors!
December 29, 2020
What a joy to celebrate 2020 with our incredible survivors who, notwithstanding the ongoing global pandemic, found a way to dig deep to overcome. Their testimonials today at our End of Year Celebration were heartwarming and reflected the fact that they channeled their creative energy into purpose and economic success. These women are truly warriors! […]
“But Still, I Rise” End of Year Summary and Fundraiser
December 24, 2020
Dear Partner, In this unprecedented year, we were honoured to have been able to serve 100+ survivors of sex trafficking and sexual slavery, none of whom were retrafficked. In a year when the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to upend much of the strides that anti-trafficking stakeholders had collectively made in protecting survivors and in preventing […]
Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic, Pathfinders Survivors Continue to Flourish
November 25, 2020
BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. With support from Action Aid Nigeria, we have been able to continue to provide sustenance in the shadows, i.e., ongoing support to survivors of sex trafficking even amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Further to our Pathway to (Post COVID-19) Freedom Project, we are continuing to provide medical care, counseling, COVID-19 humanitarian […]
PJI Conducts Business Diversification Training for Survivors
November 20, 2020
BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. At Pathfinders, we utilize a survivor centered and trauma informed approach in our work. To this end, it was imperative, as a result of the resulting lockdowns and curfews necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and #EndSARS protests, to ensure that the minimum amount of trauma was sustained by our survivors, considering […]
PJI Provides COVID-19 Relief to Sex Trafficking Survivors
October 31, 2020
OCTOBER 31, 2020- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. In line with our commitment to eradicating sex slavery and creating space for women who have been denied access to sustainable economic empowerment (post trauma), we have been providing ongoing support to survivors of sex trafficking throughout Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the pandemic has generated hardship […]