Migration
Safe Journeys Migration Awareness Session
A community session on safer migration decisions, rights, and the support available before and after the journey.
Dates announced soon. Register your interest
Knowledge Hub
Insights, Stories, and Reflections on Community Wellbeing
A space for ideas, voices, perspectives, programme updates, and reflections on mental health, gender equality, economic empowerment, migration, education, and the social realities shaping communities across Nigeria and beyond.
Featured
Stories, Reflections & Insights
Our published writing begins with the archive: the full activity reports from the Initiative for Sustaining Family Unity. Four new commissioned pieces are in preparation.
Eight Hundred Questions: Sexual Violence Awareness in Secondary Schools
Eleven schools and 1,822 students at report stage, 2,357 by the project’s end, and 21 peer advocates across Lagos and Ogun, plus the more than eight hundred questions students had been waiting for somewhere to ask.
In preparation
- Mental HealthThe Hidden Cost of Untreated Mental Health in Nigerian Communities
- Gender & ProtectionFor Sisterz Only: Why Safe Spaces Matter for Women’s Leadership
- MigrationSafe Migration is a Right: What Every Young Person Should Know
- Economic EmpowermentShared Kitchens, Shared Power: Building Economic Resilience Through Cooperation
These pieces are being written and will be published here.
Events & Conversations
Where the conversation continues
Community sessions and open conversations, held where people already gather. Register your interest and we will let you know when dates are confirmed.
Mental Health
Verenda Wellness Community Conversation
An open conversation on mental health, stigma, and the everyday practices that help communities heal together.
Dates announced soon. Register your interest
Our Roots
The archive: where this work began
Before the renaming, we were the Initiative for Sustaining Family Unity, registered in 2013 and working out of Yaba, Lagos. These are the full activity reports from that period, published here with the original field photography.
Historical Activity Report 001
Raising Voices Against Violence: The GBV Awareness Campaign at Tejuosho Market
A $1,000 grant, a mobile DJ, a banner and a team of volunteers. The first publicly visible activity of the organisation that became Sheerah Verenda, and the fifteen calls that followed it.
Read the full report
Historical Activity Report 002
Eight Hundred Questions: Sexual Violence Awareness in Secondary Schools
Eleven schools and 1,822 students at report stage, 2,357 by the project’s end, and 21 peer advocates across Lagos and Ogun, plus the more than eight hundred questions students had been waiting for somewhere to ask.
Read the full report
Programme Reports & Updates
Publications from the archive
Two documents produced under the 2016 Sexual Violence Awareness Project are published here in full. Both were made under our predecessor organisation, the Initiative for Sustaining Family Unity, and are offered as they were written. Research briefs and annual reports across our six thematic areas will be added as they are completed.
- Forthcoming
- Research briefs, toolkits, and annual programme reports across our six thematic areas.
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Understanding Basic Human Rights and Sexual Violence
The student handbook written for the Sexual Violence Awareness Project in secondary schools. Part one sets out basic human rights, the Universal Declaration in plain language alongside the rights guaranteed by Chapter 4 of the 1999 Constitution. Part two covers sexual violence: what it is, the forms it takes, the myths that surround it, and the factors that raise or reduce risk. Part three covers self defence and the practical steps open to someone who has been attacked, with a referral directory and a facilitators guide for trainers and volunteers.
Developed by the Initiative for Sustaining Family Unity with the support of AmplifyChange and Mannion Daniels.
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Students’ Speak Newsletter, Volume 1 Issue 1
The first edition of the quarterly newsletter published for the Sexual Violence Awareness Project, written to carry the conversation beyond the classroom. It introduces the project and its objectives, and leads with a student story about abuse by someone in a position of trust, the kind of account the project was built to make speakable.
Published by the Initiative for Sustaining Family Unity with the support of AmplifyChange.
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