PATHFINDERS JUSTICE INITIATIVE INCORPORATED
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to prevent sex slavery and sexual violence and to liberate enslaved women and girls through the direct eradication of root causes.
About This Cause
• OUR MISSION Our mission is to prevent sex slavery and sexual violence and to liberate enslaved women and girls through the direct eradication of root causes. • OUR VISION Pathfinders envisions a world where a fundamental change of human consciousness eliminates the demoralization and subjugation of women and girls. We envision the first generation of women and girls who experience full freedom of choice in education, occupation, financial mobility and physical movement. • HOW WE ARE MAKING OUR VISION A REALITY We’ve identified four root causes that facilitate sex-trafficking and the sexual exploitation of women and girls in Nigeria and address these through our programming: Root Cause 1: Socio-cultural norms and paradigms that devalue the lives of women and girls. Root Cause 2: Policy and legislation that permit sex-trafficking with impunity. Root Cause 3: Lack of inclusive community awareness and education. Root Cause 4: Lack of access to life-sustaining economic opportunity and basic social services. • The Justice Initiative (TJI) Root Cause Addressed: Root Cause 2 Through this project, we educate, advise and call into account policymakers and gate-keepers who have the power to end sex-trafficking. By working with law enforcement, legislators, judges, and other decision-makers to create systems, policies and practices that close the gaps that permit trafficking, we reduce the number of victims. Our work here is twofold: shed light on these systemic gaps and close them through training, accountability and legal advocacy. Additionally, we organize and conduct national and international trainings and workshops for Parliamentarians, government officials and the general public on human trafficking and migration. PJI is listed on Polaris’ Global Modern Slavery Directory and maintains special consultative status to the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council. • Pathway to Freedom Root Cause Addressed: Root Cause 4 Our core project prevents sex-trafficking, liberates trapped women and girls and provides a new path forward for at-risk women and girls. We provide alternative paths to livelihood, education, awareness of the dangers and risks of sex-trafficking as well as the core resources needed to reduce the exposure to risk. Our programming has two arms: we help women and girls vulnerable to being trafficked (pre-trafficking) and assist those who have already been trafficked to leave captivity and rebuild their lives with custom PATH Plans, legal services, financial literacy and start-up capital, vocational skills training, education scholarships, job training and placement, counseling, medical services and housing. The Pathfinder Project, our social enterprise, utilizes an adapted ‘basic income guarantee model’ to provide survivors with sustained, monthly income generated via their own businesses. Our 20-bed safehouse facility is the only one in Edo State dedicated exclusively to sex-trafficking survivors. Our work reclaims the concepts of community, family, and trust among survivors. From there, we create the lateral bonds that facilitate a supportive economic network of women on their transformative journey from victim to survivor to advocate. • Truthtellers Root Causes Addressed: Root Causes 1 and 3 Our community transformation/education project brings awareness to local communities about the hidden realities of sex-trafficking, its impact, alternative economic pathways and the power of women and girls. Truth Tellers accomplishes this through campaigns, training, seminars, daily public service announcements on radio and monthly outreach initiatives and workshops. Additionally, Truth Tellers engages male allies as a way of building cross-gender support and breaking down cultural norms around the devaluation of women. By taking a ‘root-cause’ approach, we eradicate sex-trafficking and sexual violence before they have a chance to start. We thereby ensure the safety of women and girls today and in the future. • OUR FOUNDER Pathfinders’ Founder and Executive Director, R. Evon Idahosa, Esq., is a Nigerian native and both an English Barrister and U.S. attorney. She is a published writer and a dynamic speaker whose voice echoes thousands of young female voices via Pathfinders’ campaigns, including its #Not4Sale Campaign, which has assisted over 200 survivors of sex trafficking and rape in Nigeria. Also an activist, she has appeared on multiple radio and television news outlets, including CNN, CNNi, BBC, Al Jazeera,CCTV-America,NBC and Sirius XM Radio, and has been named one of New York’s New Abolitionists (www.newyorksnewabolitionists.com). Through Pathfinders, she advocates for the return of the missing Chibok Girls of Nigeria and is a #BringBackOurGirls organizer. She has been recognized in Nigeria for her efforts in seeking an end to gender based violence in the developing world. • CONTACT US Pathfinders is registered and in good standing as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in New York (tax ID number 46-5601806) and as a non-government organization (NGO) with the Corporate Affairs Commission in Nigeria (RC No. 70798). For more information about Pathfinders, please visitwww.pathfindersji.org, emailreidahosa@pathfindersji.orgor call +1 347 326-8332 (U.S.) or +234 817 612-3228 (Nigeria). Follow on Twitter and Instagram @findyrPath or on Facebook at PathFinders Justice Initiative, Inc.