Vingt mères de famille provenant des cinq communes de la ville de Conakry ont bénéficié d’une formation aux gestes barrières et aux mesures de distanciation physique les 5 et 6 mai 2020. L’activité, initiée et animée par les volontaires du projet…
In Guinea, returned migrants have been equipped with basic skills to help their communities prevent the spread of COVID-19, including combatting misinformation. The International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Migrants as Messengers project…
In response to the growing Covid-19 pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Migrants as Messengers project is raising awareness to prevent the spread of the disease. Youthful volunteers across West Africa are spreading the…
Resilience? What does it mean for returned migrants who have survived dangerous journeys? “To me, resilience means protecting myself and being able to withstand an unfavorable situation,” says Rosamond Erica Johnson, who returned to The Gambia after…
Thirteen female slam poets participated in ‘Slammigration’, an initiative to create six original songs about migration in February 2019. A year later, several of them joined efforts to tackle the pandemic and published videos of themselves on social…
Talented young returned migrants from Sierra Leone, Henry Bessman (Henry B), Ibrahim Kargbo (Adkay) and Abdul Karim Sankoh (Gift), used their creative skills to write and record Corona virus is real, an original song about Covid-19. The song is…
Nobody knows how many of the 22,000 people who died trying to reach Europe from Africa since 2014 knew about the terrible dangers awaiting them. Were some aware but decided to face the huge risks anyway? Did they block out the brutal realities…
A new report by the International Organization for Migration’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) in collaboration with the Organization’s Media and Communications Division (MCD) provides robust evidence on the positive impact of peer-to-…
COVID-19 has had a slow but steady spread in The Gambia. As misinformation continues to circulate about how one can protect themselves against the virus, Migrants as Messengers volunteers are taking great initiative in promoting correct hygiene and…
“I am here to show you how to wash your hands. This is soap and this is water...There is no excuse why you cannot wash your hands.” These are the words of Chylian Azuh in a video she recently produced herself to teach people how to wash their hands…
“I could not sleep for two weeks.” The words of Ramatoulaye Diène, a returnee from Senegal, echo what millions around the world have experienced during the pandemic: anxiety, fear and disruption. The rapid spread of the virus and global response…
Liberia declared a state of emergency in early April when the pandemic hit. In a race against time, Sharon Logan with a group of fellow returnees took the initiative to create comic strips to get essential preventative information about the virus to…
Qu’est-ce que la résilience pour les migrants de retour ? « Pour moi, la résilience c’est la capacité à se protéger et à résister à une situation difficile », explique Rosamond Erica Johnson, de retour en Gambie après un voyage pénible de sept mois…
Plus d’un an après s’être rencontrées à “Slammigration”, un événement musical réunissant des artistes autour de la migration et organisé à Dakar, 13 slameuses se sont de nouveau retrouvées afin d’informer leurs communautés sur le Covid-19 via des…
Banjul – Migration plays a significant role in continental Africa’s smallest country, The Gambia. Its per capita migration rate remains one of the highest in Africa, and with over 5,000 Gambians voluntarily returning home in the past three years, it…