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, […]
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 […]
New 2021 Global Report on Modern Slavery Reveals Global Increase in Victims
SEPTEMBER, 2022. The 2021 global estimates on modern slavery (comprised of both forced labour and forced marriage) published by the Walk Free Foundation, International labour Organisation (ILO) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reveals that approximately 50 million people are in situations of modern slavery on any given day. Modern slavery, which the report defines […]
Nigeria: Human Trafficking Factsheet
• 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 […]
PJI Conducts Working Group Session II for its CCM and Focus Group for HERS Africa
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
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 […]
Pathfinders Conducts “We Survived, We Thrive!” Adaptive Skills Exhibition
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 Conducts Life Skills Training for Survivors
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 […]
Pathfinders Conducts Food Drive for At-Risk Beneficiaries
APRIL 28, 2021- BENIN CITY, EDO STATE. One of our core values at Pathfinders is granting access to women who are at-risk to trafficking, providing them with opportunities to educate and empower themselves and thus reducing overall vulnerability. To this end, and with the support of a Global Freedom Exchange grant from Vital Voices Global […]