Cinema: Du crépitement sous les néons (2022)
Completed project
During the summer of 2021, Mist welcomed the actors of “Du crépitement sous les néons”, a movie about a young man from Paris’ suburbs and a young Nigerian girl who is a victim of human trafficking. As part of an immersive training course, the actors were accompanied by 4 members of Mist; they took part in the association’s outreach work in the capital’s prostitution areas and gained an insight into the social difficulties faced by the women they met. They learned Nigerian Pigdin and were able to rehearse their scenes with the Mist members; three of them took part as extras and an active member was a coach on the shoot. This encounter between young people from very different backgrounds enabled each of them to discover the other’s world, raise questions and challenge preconceived ideas.
Released in cinemas on 16 November 2022.
Feedback in episode 5 of season 2 of the True Talk podcast: “Displacing shame”.
Funding: Bonne Pioche Productions
Don’t pay with your life (2020-22)
Project completed
Aims: To run an information and awareness-raising campaign on Facebook to encourage young people under the age of 25 in Edo State, Nigeria, to get involved in the fight against trafficking of young Nigerian girls for sexual exploitation. The project, that took place between October 2020 and August 2022, was coordinated by Ecpat France and was the continuation of “PACKING” project, carried out between 2018 and 2019, which enabled the creation of a Facebook page bringing together a community of around 12,000 young people in Edo State. Promoting a new series of tools, in particular 8 podcasts produced by Mist, 4 webseries produced by Girls Power Initiative (GPI) in Benin City, Edo State, and 6 testimonies produced by the AFJ association in Paris. Training and supporting a Mist mediator in community management in order to handle the Facebook page.
Partners: AFJ, ECPAT France (coordination), GPI
Funding: ECPAT France
Empowering survivors in social work against THB (2021-23)
Project completed
Aims: Promoting better participation of trafficked women in assistance programmes and public policies aimed at them. To strengthen the capacity of Mist members to develop community organising with the support of “Organisez-vous !” association (monthly group workshops, individual training, fortnightly working groups and individual coaching). Developing the collective’s skills in welcoming new members, conflict management, advocacy and ethics. Creation of internal rules by members.
Funding: Porticus France
Nigerian trafficking and child protection. Protection of child victims of trafficking and children of trafficking victims, collateral victims of the phenomenon (2021-2022)
Project completed
Aims: To better protect young people who have been victims of pimping and trafficking for sexual exploitation (TEH), particularly those who were victims when they were minors, through an innovative peer education approach led by former victims who have become mediators. Increasing knowledge and awareness on the situation of the children of Nigerian women who are victims of TEH and their rights, particularly with regard to the consequences of the reception and protection conditions of their mothers (and their partners). Collective recommendations highlighted in the document: How to protect children?
Funding: Fondation de France