CategoriesMigration & Climate Change Victims SupportIn Sierra Leone, the realities faced by returned migrants can be harrowing. The BBC program The Assignment sheds light on the powerful stories of Fatmata Bangura, Alimamy Kargbo, and Jemilatu Sheriff, who pursued a dream of reaching Europe but endured unimaginable suffering before returning home. Fatmata’s Ordeal: At 28, she faced repeated sexual abuse, torture, […]
Sheku Bangura’s story is a compelling narrative of resilience and transformation. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sheku chased the promise of a better life through a perilous migration route that led him across Mali, Algeria, and Libya. Despite facing detention and hardships, he returned determined to create positive change. Now the leader of Advocacy Network […]
CategoriesCollaboration Victims Support We Cooperate The Advocacy Network Against Irregular Network (ANAIM) team had the honour of meeting with AIG Brima Jah, Director of Operations of the Sierra Leone Police, at the Police Headquarters in Freetown on Monday, October 2, 2023. AIG Brima Jah sincerely welcomed the delegation and expressed his utmost commitment to working with the organization to provide […]
On Saturday the 19 of November 2022 ANAIM Takes Advocacy to the streets of Waterloo As part of our regular outreach programs to reach out to everybody of all ages, class, tribe, religion and sex. ANAIM embarked on a street sensitization campaign to continue it advocacy in discouraging potential migrants while debunking the myth of […]
CategoriesPsychosocial Support Training Victims SupportOver 100 youths in Waterloo were educated by the Advocacy Network Against Illegal Migration (ANAIM) on the risks and perils associated with irregular migration on Friday, August 20. In his opening remarks, Daniel Koroma, Program Manager, ANAIM, stated that migration is most prevalent among the country’s youth population. For this reason, he said, the organization […]
CategoriesMigration & Climate ChangeThe three-year Migrants as Messengers (MaM) project, a peer-to-peer awareness-raising initiative that gave young people in West Africa the power to decide for themselves whether to migrate, has officially come to an end. Sheku Bangura, the executive director of the Advocacy Network Against Irregular Migration, noted during the event that the three tactics were used […]
CategoriesEnvironment Migration & Climate ChangeSheku Bangura, the Executive Director of the Advocacy Network Against Irregular Migration and the Chief Pan African Ambassador of the World Against Single-Used of Plastic (WASUP) has started a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of single-use plastic, which he said continues to exist in Sierra Leone and pose a serious threat to people, […]
CategoriesWe Cooperate Sheku Bangura founder and executive Director of Advocacy Network Against Irregular Migration has been consistent in his call to Members of Parliament (MPs) to speed up the enactment of the new anti-human trafficking act.We once again draw the attention of the general public that the anti-human trafficking act 2005 does not have any provision for […]
CategoriesWe Cooperate On 12-11-2020, the government of Sierra Leone through the ministry of social welfare, give a re-integration package to one hundred migrants. Including some of the 85 migrants, and currently, 15 of the 85 are on business training which in no time are to be re-integrated by INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION (IOM). All this is because […]
CategoriesTrainingANAIMS Organised a Training Event for new volunteers in Port Loko District to help cascade the message of irregular migration to members of the community The training is mainly focused on engaging the youths who are more vulnerable to irregular migration and its dangers. It involves mind-changing skills that will dissuade them from embarking on […]
