50 photographs, 2015 to today

The work, as it actually looked

Banners carried through a market in 2015. Eight hundred questions written by schoolchildren in 2016. Counselling rooms, shared kitchens and safe spaces today. Every photograph here is of our own work.

Tejuosho Market, Lagos · 2015

Raising Voices Against Violence

A street campaign taken directly to traders and commuters: banners, wristbands, bus stickers and hundreds of one-to-one conversations about violence against women and girls.

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Volunteers holding the Raising Voices Against Violence banner at Tejuosho market

Campaign volunteers talking with traders in the street outside Tejuosho market

Project volunteers gathered together before the market outreach

Printed campaign materials laid out before distribution

A campaign wristband worn by a participant

A campaign sticker displayed on the back of a commercial bus

Raising Her Awareness on Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria · 2015–2016

The campaign materials

The printed matter behind the street campaign: banners, posters, a screening leaflet and a wristband, produced for the 16 Days of Activism under the For Sisterz Only platform with the funding support of the African Women’s Development Fund. They are reproduced here as they were printed — the language, the helpline numbers and the funder credits are all the originals.

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The 16 Days of Activism poster, a word cloud in the shape of Nigeria naming the forms gender-based violence takes

The campaign banner in place at the market outreach

Two campaign banners: End Gender Based Violence, and Pull Over, Report Gender-Based Violence

Campaign banners: Speak Out Against Gender Based Violence, and Your Silence Supports Gender Based Violence

Campaign banners: Stop Gender Based Violence, and If You Look Away It May Cost A Life

The screening leaflet, a list of questions helping a reader recognise abuse in their own relationship, with referral contacts

The campaign wristband artwork, Take Action End Gender Based Violence, carrying the helpline numbers

The project brochure, outer spread, setting out the organisation’s vision, platforms and services

The project brochure, inner spread, explaining what gender-based violence is and where it happens

Every Last Girl Standing, an article written for the 2016 International Day of the Girl Child

Secondary schools, Lagos · 2016

Eight Hundred Questions

The Sexual Violence Awareness Project in schools, where students asked more than eight hundred written questions — the record that became the handbook and the newsletter now in the Knowledge Hub.

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A Sexual Violence Awareness Project session under way in a school hall

Students seated in a school hall during the awareness session

Students listening during the awareness project session

The Understanding Basic Human Rights handbook produced for the project

Students at Reagan Memorial writing their questions during the session

A student raising her hand as a facilitator takes questions, Reagan Memorial

Facilitators opening the session at Reagan Memorial

Students writing questions at their desks, Reagan Memorial

Question sheets being handed along the rows, Reagan Memorial

The full hall during the session at Reagan Memorial

The facilitation team at Reagan Memorial

Students at Radiant Secondary School with the project handbook, beneath the Sexual Violence Awareness banner

A second group of students at Radiant Secondary School holding the handbook

Students and a facilitator at Radiant Secondary School

Facilitator with students at Radiant Secondary School

The session under way in the hall at Radiant Secondary School

Students at St Finbarr’s College holding the Understanding Basic Human Rights handbook

A group of students at St Finbarr’s College after the session

Students and facilitators at St Finbarr’s College

The assembly hall during the session at St Finbarr’s College

Students seated during the session at St Finbarr’s College

Students and staff at Our Lady of Apostles after the session

The facilitation team with staff at Our Lady of Apostles

Students writing their questions at Our Lady of Apostles

Students working through the session material in a classroom

Students holding the project handbook at the end of a session

Students assembled in the school grounds before a session

A second assembly in the school grounds before a session

Lagos and beyond · Current

The work today

Counselling, safe spaces, legal literacy, shared kitchens, school support and safe-migration briefings — the six thematic areas as they run now.

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Three Sheerah Verenda colleagues in conversation at the organisation’s offices

A sexual violence awareness session running in a secondary school

Sheerah Verenda team carrying out street outreach

A young man during a community outreach activity, 2015–2016

Secondary school students at a Sheerah Verenda community session

Three women working together during a Sheerah Verenda mentoring session

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