A United States-based NGO,
United Way Worldwide has chosen Nigeria as its first African county to
understudy human trafficking and other forms of slavery.
Butler said since the
inception of the organisation 30 years ago, it had been advocating for human
development, community development, as well as sensitising the public on the
need to be focused and desist from imbibing negative tendencies.
According to her, in 2015,
the organisation inaugurated human trafficking and slavery arm and decided to
begin the exploitation of the issue in Africa in 2019 to find a lasting
solution to it.
“Nigeria is the first
country we are exploring in Africa for such issue; we are here to do a
landscaping analysis of those who are doing this work, the best practices, and
intervention that will work all to get a solution.
“We cannot be in Nigeria
and not partner with the premier agency who focuses on trafficking in persons,
so that is why we are here with the National Agency for the Prohibition of
Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) which has graciously agreed to hold this
meeting.
“United Way Worldwide is an
NGO, this is the landscape analysis Phase 1, we hope that we are coming out of
this; we are here to identify how the organisation can help to assist in the
fight,’’ she stressed.
She added that the issue of
trafficking and migration was everywhere in the world, adding that the issue
seemed to be growing in the African continent.
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