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
Research briefs and annual reports
The Knowledge Hub is our written content centre, updated with blog posts, programme reports, event highlights, and announcements. The materials produced for our earlier projects are documented in the two Our Roots reports below.
- Student’s Handbook on Human Rights and Sexual Violence
- Researched, tested and validated with students; 1,000 copies printed for the 2016 schools programme.
- Students’ Speak Newsletter
- Two editions produced in 2016, including “Sexual Abuse by Acquaintance: Is it My Fault?”
- Forthcoming
- Research briefs, toolkits, and annual programme reports across our six thematic areas.
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