BENIN CITY, EDO STATE- To equip female survivors of trafficking, SGBV and at-risk women with the necessary skillset and mindset for identifying, launching and sustaining new business ventures, Pathfinders Business Academy classes began on April 11th, 2023. The overall objective is to ensure that all beneficiaries have transferable business and life skills to run their […]
UNODC Launches 2022 Global TIP Report
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- FEBRUARY 2023. The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime recently released its seventh edition of the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. This biannual report explores 141 countries’ responses to trafficking in persons from 2018-2021, with a focus on changes in detections and convictions when compared to data since 2003 when UNODC […]
Pathfinders Conducts Food Drive for ‘The Freedom Project’ Beneficiaries
DECEMBER 2022- BENIN CITY. The hardship for our beneficiaries that began with the COVID-19 pandemic has yet to end. In an effort to ensure that they can meet their basic needs while we simultaneously reintegrate them into society and prevent them from being re-trafficked, PJI organized a food drive on December 15th, 2022 for all […]
PJI Conducts Food Drive for OUR Project ‘RISE’ Beneficiaries
DECEMBER 15, 2022- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. On December 15, 2022, Pathfinders Justice Initiative conducted a food drive for the 5 survivor beneficiaries of our Operation Underground Rescue (OUR) funded Project RISE. The food drive was intended to provide humanitarian support towards their basic needs the festive season. Each beneficiary received rice, beans, sachet tomatoes, […]
Pathfinders Conducts Medical Outreach for UN’s OHCHR Beneficiaries
NOVEMBER 30th, 2022- BENIN CITY, EDO. Continuing our efforts to provide holistic support to our beneficiaries, we conducted a medical outreach for 30 beneficiaries of our Pathway to Freedom Project on November 30, 2022. Collaborating with a team of medical doctors from the Association of Resident Doctors at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) […]
‘The Freedom Project’ Begins Year 2 with Life Skills Training for Incoming Cohort
BENIN CITY, EDO STATE- NOVEMBER 17, 2022. In an effort to ensure that our beneficiaries are adequately equipped with psychosocial competencies and interpersonal skills to make decisions, build back healthy, problem solve and think critically and creatively, Pathfinders organized a life skills training in November on decision making, strategic planning and boosting creativity for our […]
Project Close Out for Vital Voices’ ‘Each One, Reach One’ Project
OCTOBER 2022- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. Pathfinders organized a close-out event for its Vital Voices’ funded ‘Each One, Reach One’ project in October 2022. The event was a final project effort to serve our beneficiaries and put smiles on their faces following the year long project. The ceremony kicked off with beneficiaries sharing their success […]
‘The Freedom Project’ Conducts Food Drive for 50 Program Beneficiaries
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022-BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. On September 29, 2022, Pathfinders provided humanitarian support via a food drive for fifty (50) beneficiaries of our The Freedom Project. Via this U.S. Department of State funded Project, each beneficiary received food that was customised to her specific needs, including any of the following: a bag of rice, […]
Pathfinders Conducts Final CCM Working Group Meeting for ‘The Justice Project’
September 28, 2022- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. Pathfinders organized the final Coordinated Care Mechanism (CCM) Working Group Meeting (WGM) on September 28, 2022, hosting 23 organizations. The CCM, which is the first of its kind in Edo State to coordinate service delivery for survivors of trafficking, is a state referral mechanism initiated by Pathfinders but […]
Pathfinders Conducts ‘We Survived, We Thrive!’ Adaptive Skills Training (Part 2)
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022-BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. As part of the activities of The Freedom Project (TFP), Pathfinders organised Part 2 of its second Adaptive Business Training for 30 beneficiaries on September 22, 2022. Nigeria’s rapidly changing market economy has been challenging on our beneficiaries whose growing businesses we helped start a few months ago still require […]