Office In Nigeria
Field Base In Nigeria
Aim: Awareness and
Prevention
Africans In America Foundation just incorporated in Nigeria and is in the process of opening its office in the hinterland/rural area where children and parents from poor families are falling victims to the lure of opportunity and better life promised by the human traffickers.
Our vision for African operation is very unique. Quite unlike others organizations located in mostly big cities doing only policy advocacies; our operation will be located inside the rural villages and hamlets where the poorest of the poor live and will render direct services to the socially and economically disadvantaged.
Another unique aspect of our African program is that the local natives who are versed on the issues, the terrain, the cues and nuances are trained to lead the operation.
These enable us to connect the poorest segment of the society in the harder to reach areas that remain largely un-reached and un-served.
Services
- Social support, including Intensive Case Management, Legal Services and Accompaniment
- Enhance Public/Community Awareness, Public Speakers Bureau
- Advocacy
- Respite Center (Group home model residence)
- Vocational Training Skills, including computer literacy and other skills needed to survive in a particular region.
The severe economically disadvantaged and potential victims need these services and resources to be able to stay free and survive independently in the society.
To achieve this, we will network with relevant authorities and institutions that support our corporate philosophy. Our approach would be a combination of preventive, as well as, protective measures.
We also intend to empower the community to cooperate with the authorities particularly, the law enforcement and justice system to aggressively pursue the worst human trafficking perpetrators.
We also intend to combat trafficking in Africa following the United Nations established model namely:
- Raising awareness about the plight of trafficked children and other victims.
- Providing economic support to families at risk.
- Enhancing access to, and quality of, education.
- Advocating the rights of children.
- Encouraging economic empowerment of women through vocational training and development of trade and skills.
- Aggressively pursue the human trafficking perpetrators and their associates (the new slave merchants, the middlemen and the final recipients) through the judicial system.
Human trafficking chain
and support network
Included in the African
human trafficking chain and support network are:
- The local recruiters, abductors, headhunters.
- The middlemen and women.
- The human (slave) merchants and the dealers on human parts.
- The custodians of satanic shrines where humans are killed for fetish ritual purposes.
- The businesses and individuals performing ritual killings (of human beings) in order to gain political power and economic wealth.
- The social authorities that acquiesced thereby supporting the practice.
- The institutions including religious, social clubs, community and professional organizations and associations that refuse to speak up.
- The end-users of the victims in households and businesses.
- Individuals that cover-up and mislead the authorities – the law enforcement and justice system.
- The support network in the law enforcement and the judiciary that cover-up, refuse to investigate and deliberately mishandled the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases thereby aiding and abetting this horrendous crime and practice.
- And finally, the highest level of leadership, the political authorities, the governments that allow these atrocities to go on in their respective domains. This includes political, community and other leaders involved in ritual killing in order to seal covenants and obtain political power and economic wealth – a practice that is common is some African countries.
