In Nigeria human trafficking ranks the third most common crime after financial fraud and drug trafficking. As a source, transit and destination country, youth populations are most vulnerable. While girls are trafficked mostly for domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation, boys are trafficked mostly for forced labour in plantations, stone quarries and hawking. “Shine your Eyes” is an online peer education anti-trafficking project.
What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
Imo and Abia States in Nigeria
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Youth populations in Nigeria are the most active users of social networking tools. This scale-up project is aimed at reducing the incidence of child trafficking through citizen media. It will take advantage the increasing online population of youths. The participants will be trained on skills of using the internet and social media tools such as facebook, twitter, blogposts and flickr to educate their online peers on the ills of trafficking.
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
“Shine your Eyes” project was borne in 2011 as a result of our initial research findings which reveals the increasing number of youth and children school drop-outs due to trafficking in disguise of offer for “better jobs in big cities and scholarships abroad” among others. This scale up project will build on the success of the first phase. The added advantage is that the participant’s capacities on issues of trafficking have already been built
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
This phase of project will identify 40 in-school youths that are members of Child Rights Club (CRC) in selected schools in two target States in Nigeria. A citizen media “Digi-Camp” will be organized to train and build capacity of participants on the use of internet and social networking tools for online peer education and sensitization against trafficking.
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
Further capacity building courses and training opportunities for both the project beneficiaries and implementers
Organization
Community Action Development Initiative (CADIN)
