September 7, 2022- BENIN CITY, EDO. In an effort to further reduce vulnerability to trafficking, our medical outreaches are designed to conveniently deliver quality health care to our busy beneficiaries. At each outreach, we stress the importance of securing regular medical check-ups, while simultaneously providing free access to such wellness checks and a safe platform […]
Nigeria: Human Trafficking Factsheet
September 6, 2022
• Human trafficking, a form of modern day slavery, involves the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain and is a $150 billion global industry. Two thirds of this figure ($99 billion) is generated from commercial sexual exploitation, while another $51 billion results from forced economic exploitation, including domestic work, agriculture and other […]
Pathfinders Conducts Food Drive for PTF3 Beneficiaries
August 31, 2022
August 30th, 2021- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. Because one of our core values is granting access to women survivors of trafficking, we provide them with opportunities to educate and empower themselves; thus reducing their overall vulnerability to retrafficking. To this end, and with the support of the United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for […]
PJI Conducts Working Group Session II for its CCM and Focus Group for HERS Africa
August 29, 2022
August 29, 2022- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. Following our successful 2-day stakeholders’ Roundtable in July 2022 to initiate the creation of a Coordinated Care Mechanism (CCM) by service providers for survivors of human trafficking in Edo State, Pathfinders organized the CCM’s Working Group Session I, with eighteen (18) organizations in attendance, on August 3, 2022. […]
Pathfinders Graduates its 2nd Adult Literacy Education Program Class
August 25, 2022
BENIN CITY, EDO STATE- On August 25, 2022, eleven students enrolled in our Pathfinders’ Adult Literacy Initiative (PALI) celebrated the completion of their three-month course. PALI, which partners with women in local communities to provide free adult education courses to decrease vulnerability to trafficking, began its second session in May 2022. All students on our […]
PJI Conducts Working Group Session for its Coordinated Care Mechanism
August 3, 2022
AUGUST 3, 2022 – BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. Further to our 2-day stakeholders’ Roundtable meeting to initiate the creation of a Coordinated Care Mechanism (CCM) by service providers for survivors of human trafficking in Edo State, Pathfinders organized the CCM first working group, meeting with eighteen (18) organizations in attendance, on August 3, 2022. Discussions […]
Pathfinders Conducts “We Survived, We Thrive!” Adaptive Skills Exhibition
July 30, 2022
BENIN CITY, EDO STATE, JULY 29, 2022. Pursuant to ‘The Freedom Project, ’ (TFP), Pathfinders organized Part 1 of its second Adaptive Business Training by conducting a Survivors’ Entrepreneurs Exhibition. Our team of 13 beneficiaries consisted of several successful PJI entrepreneur alumni as well as some TFP beneficiaries who we believed were prepared to take […]
Pathfinders Initiates Coordinated Care Mechanism for Edo State Service Providers
July 23, 2022
JULY 21, 2022- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. In an effort to strengthen and enhance the network and coordination of CSOs in Edo State to better serve survivors of sex trafficking, Pathfinders Justice Initiative (pursuant to its The Justice Project) organized a 2-day stakeholders’ Roundtable meeting to initiate the creation of a Coordinated Care Mechanism (CCM) […]
Nigeria Remains Tier 2 Country on U.S. State Department’s 2022 TIP Report
July 20, 2022
July 20, 2022- WASHINGTON, D.C. The United State Department of State has released its 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report which ranks countries based on their respective government’s response to human trafficking in the preceding year (April 2021 to March 2022). Nigeria remains a Tier 2 Country (second to highest ranking, with Namibia being the only […]
Pathfinders Conducts Life Skills Training for Survivors
June 21, 2022
JUNE 15, 2022- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. As part of our holistic effort to address the mental health challenges of our beneficiaries, PJI organized a second life skills training further to ‘The Freedom Project,’ a Pathfinders initiative funded by the United States Department of State. Facilitators addressed ‘Coping with Emotions and Self Esteem’ and ‘Fostering […]
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