Who We Are
Advocacy Network Against Irregular Migration
Advocacy Network Against Irregular Migration (ANAIM) was established in 2017 as a National NGO which advocates for the welfare of Migrants both at home and abroad. We respond to the call and cries of migrants who are in a situation of distress in foreign Countries, helping to reintegrate them into societies and create social awareness on the root causes of human trafficking and irregular migration in Sierra Leone.
- Advocate for Emergency material support, providing food and sourcing accommodation for newly returned migrants.
- Advice for returning single women with children, some of whom have become mothers because they were raped in the prisons and when suspected of pregnancy, they were sent back home with unwanted pregnancy.g Many of these womena and girls ended up giving birth to fatherless babies. As a reult some these circumstances, many of them are rejected by their families and community.
- Advocate, to help get jobs for them and help those that wish to continue school enroll into schools and colleges.
- We provide guidance and financial support to those that are not eligible for the International Organisation for Migrants (IOM) reintegration package. We help them setup business that will make them self-reliance.
- Counselling and mediation work to enable returnees to be accepted by their families.
- Psycho-social counselling to help the many returnees who have been deeply traumatized by their experiences on their journey.
- Encouraging and training returnees to become public advocates against irregular migration and human trafficking using their experiences to dissuade others from undertaking similar journeys, and spreading awareness of the dangers in Sierra Leonean society.
- Working with the Government as part of the national task force against human trafficking, to stop trafficking, by collecting information from returnees about traffickers and sharing it with the Transnational Organized Crime Unit (TOCU)
- Advocating for Sierra Leoneans stranded abroad who are trying to return home and coordinating with other agencies to enable their repatriation
