On Tuesday I had two more interviews with girls that have been victims of sex trafficking. I found them, as the first two, through the organization called COSUDOW. Both of them had been trafficked to Europe for the purpose of becoming hair dressers, but ended up in prostitution.

One of them went to Italy and she was helped back to Nigeria with the help of an Italian NGO that is engaged in questions of sex trafficking. The other girl went to Germany, and she was arrested and deported back to Nigeria by German authorities after they had made a riot at the hotel where she was kept as an illegal prostitute.

Finally, after three weeks of field visits and collecting of data for my thesis in Benin City, it was time for me to go back to Lagos. I was very happy to leave Benin to go to Lagos that offers more and is a big city where everything is to be found.

I went with a friend in a very hot minibus on Wednesday, and it took us four hours to travel on the bumpy and bad road to Lagos from Benin. Finally in Lagos it took us three more hours to reach the house where we are staying, due to traffic. The traffic in Lagos must be seen to be understood. I never saw anything like it before!

On Thursday and Friday I was at WOCON’s office for my internship. At the moment they are planning for an outreach program and a workshop that is coming up in January. Unfortunately by then I have gone back to Sweden and can’t attend.

They are now planning to print new posters that will inform people about the issue and danger of human trafficking. These posters are supposed to give out a signal and be understood also by those who can’t read and write. I was fortunate enough to get the chance to sit and give ideas and draw designs for the posters for two days. I was very happy to do that since it is something I enjoy very much!

Coming week I will attend a program on HIV and Aids, and one day is planned for me to follow one of WOCON’s co workers to a village outside Lagos.