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The latest on Migrants as Messengers, including press releases, stories, news coverage, and reports.

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Volunteer Voices

My Trafficking Journey

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Rise and rebuild: Gambian shipwreck survivors pave the way for community development

Binta Touray, who works for the Migration Information Centre (MIC) in the West Coast Region, believes youth should resist the concept of irregular migration as a way to achieve economic stability. © IOM/Robert Kovacs
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Migration Information Centres: Helping Young Gambians Make Informed Migration Decisions

Ebrima Sambou
Volunteer Voices

What Matters Most is Family

Momodou Bah
Volunteer Voices

Environmental Migration and Sustainability: Returnees Advocate for Positive Change

Mamina
Volunteer Voices

The story of Mamina

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The story of Muhammed Sankareh

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Behind the scenes of a 'Promised Land'

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Volunteer Voices

From Being Sold Six Times to Different Borgers to Becoming an Artist

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Female black filmmakers are claiming their seat at the table

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News Coverage

Student becomes the master: MaM Volunteers are training IOM staff in Sierra Leone

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Fatmata: Climbing the hills of her own future in Sierra Leone

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Guinée : les migrations en discussion à travers le 7e art

A woman's point of view on migration may be more disarming than one might think
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All is Not lost: A story of reintegration

The Gambia migration Volunteer Migrants as Messengers
Volunteer Voices

My migration journey

The Gambia Mamina Jallow Migrants as Messengers Volunteer
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Ending stigma and discrimination: A migrant returnee’s perspective

IOM MHPSS migrants as messengers world mental health day west africa Senegalese actor Antoine Danfa in action during a theatre caravan on awareness raising in Mbour, Senegal. Credit: Amanda Nero/IOM a OIM
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Empathy and sympathy: how migration and mental health are inseparable

MaM Guinee
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Prenons le temps de l'écoute et du soutien

ASMI
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Les volontaires lancent l’Association Sénégalaise contre la Migration Irrégulière (ASMI)

Sheikh Omar gives a drama and performing arts class in the Fandema Multimeda center. © IOM 2021 / Alessandro Lira
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Migrants’ Take: Survivors of Human Trafficking Commit to Change the Narrative

Rapper 2Mind in action during the caravan. Photo credit : Amanda Nero/IOM
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Caravan in Thiès

Tijs Magagi Hoornaert & Fatou Ndeye Sarr
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Street Art: revamping urban youth participation in West Africa

Become A Master
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Côte d’Ivoire : dans le cadre du renforcement des capacités, l’OIM apporte son soutien au projet Become A Master

UCAD
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Senegalese youth & influencers speaking up together against irregular migration

Mark capturing pictures at a community theatre performance in Benin City during a photography training for returned migrants. © IOM 2021/Elijah Elaigwu
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Migrants’ Take — How Comedy and Drama Skits Inspire Young People on their Migration Choices

Clement recording videos during a market sensitization in Benin City ©IOM 2020/Elijah Elaigwu
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Migrants’ Take — Clement Onokhua: Raising awareness against gender-based violence through filmmaking

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News Coverage

Returnees and youth leaders add their voices in preventing irregular migration

Dion Nadège en blanc. (Marie-Ange AKPA)
News Coverage

Journée internationale des femmes: Des femmes sources d’inspiration pour les migrants de retour mises en exergue

Une famille se retrouve autour de la radio dans la région de Kédougou pour suivre un programme sur la prévention de la Covid-19, © Sylvain Cherkaoui /IBM/ OIM Sénégal
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La radio : ces voix qui nous interpellent

Photo: IOM
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Senegalese Actress Launches TV Series to Raise Awareness About Unsafe Migration