Migration
Safe Migration Is a Right: What Every Young Person Should Know
The race to “Japa” is real. So are the dreams behind it. But no dream should require a young person to gamble with their life—and no…
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.
Gender & Protection
For Sisterz Only: Why Safe Spaces Matter for Women’s Leadership
A safe space is not simply a place where women are comfortable. It is a place where they can bring their voices, their intellect, their experiences…
Forthcoming
Economic Empowerment
Shared Kitchens, Shared Power: Building Economic Resilience Through Cooperation
One woman with a stove has a job. Twelve women with a shared kitchen have a business. How pooling equipment, orders and risk changes what a…
Forthcoming
Mental Health
The Hidden Cost of Untreated Mental Health in Nigerian Communities
Why mental health rarely appears on a household budget, and what it costs anyway — in work missed, school interrupted, and families carrying alone what ought…
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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