Human Trafficking Nigeria
Nigeria
KAVOD’s work in Nigeria
KAVOD has been working in Nigeria for 11 years. The focus of this work is on prevention. For this reason, we offer training. Churches are encouraged to reach out to women in prostitution locally and we participate in awareness campaigns in villages. It is important to have contact with a network of Nigerian shelters. KAVOD is part of a European network and passes on these addresses if deportation is imminent. This ensures that the deported person can go to a safe place.
We work with other organizations, for example Media Campaign against Human Trafficking, MeCAHT.
Europe in my Heart , a film by MeCAHT, tells the story of a young girl from the countryside who believes in a better life in Europe and wants to help her family out of poverty. But she soon finds out that she has to pay for it with great hardship.
The film reflects real circumstances: young women are actually recruited in villages with promises of a great future in Europe. The young woman must promise to pay back a lot of money – often up to €60,000. Of course, she has no idea how much that actually is. Before leaving, they must go to a juju priest and, in an occult ritual, give hair, nails, and pubic hair, which are placed in a shrine along with the blood of a slaughtered chicken. She is threatened that a curse will hit her if she talks about it to the police or to white people. Many remain silent because of this, out of fear. Nevertheless, however, this fear can be overcome. KAVOD was able to experience that women could talk about it with the help of a Nigerian pastor. The curse was broken.
Joy
JOY is a 2019 award-winning feature film. The Austrian Film Institute writes about this as follows:
Joy tells the story of a young Nigerian woman caught in the vicious cycle of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. She works as a prostitute in Vienna to buy her way out of her pimp, Madame, to support her family in Nigeria and secure a future for her little daughter. Although freedom is within reach for Joy, breaking out of the perfidious cycle of human trafficking seems impossible. Victim, accomplice, exploiter, the roles are fluid in this merciless system of exploitation.
