Pillar 02

Preventing violence. Protecting futures.

We prevent gender-based violence and exploitation through schools, communities and storytelling.

Established Experience

Awareness is only the beginning.

Our previous work includes Ford Foundation-supported SGBV sensitisation in schools and communities, collaboration with Lagos State DSVA, short films, debates, training, rallies and community engagement.

Secondary-school students during an awareness programme
School film screeningStudents with awareness materials
Community engagementCommunity outreach
What We Do

Three simple pathways to protection.

Our strength is prevention, education, youth engagement, community mobilisation, storytelling and partnership.

01

Safe Schools

Age-appropriate student engagement on GBV, sexual violence, consent, healthy relationships, safety and seeking help.

TrainingDebatesShort filmsReferral awareness
02

Safer Communities

Community dialogues, public awareness, rallies and engagement with women, men, youth, parents and local leaders.

DialogueRalliesMen & boysCommunity champions
03

Trafficking Prevention

Helping young people recognize deceptive recruitment, understand safe migration and know where to seek trusted information.

Risk recognitionSafe migrationDigital awarenessYouth engagement
Our Method

Learn. Discuss. Act.

We do not rely on lectures alone.

Learn: understand violence, rights and safety. Discuss: use debates, film and guided conversation to challenge harmful ideas. Act: know what to do, where to seek help and how to support others safely.

School & Community SGBV Campaign

See prevention in action.

Training, debates, film and community engagement make young people active participants in the conversation.

This campaign film documents the Foundation's work engaging students and communities on sexual and gender-based violence.

Human trafficking public service announcement
Film-Led Prevention

The Truth About Happiness

A film can start a conversation. A campaign can help change behaviour.

The forthcoming film is being developed as the centre of a wider anti-trafficking impact campaign including youth engagement, screenings, safe-migration education, digital content, stakeholder dialogue and impact research.

Explore the impact platform
For Donors

Fund prevention before harm occurs.

Partners can sponsor defined school, community and trafficking-prevention interventions with clear budgets and results frameworks.

Sponsor a School

Fund a complete student protection programme.

Sponsor 10 Schools

Support a coordinated multi-school prevention campaign.

Sponsor a Community

Fund dialogue, awareness and protection information.

Fund Trafficking Prevention

Support youth safe-migration and anti-trafficking engagement.

Support Protection & Justice
Selected Sponsors & Collaborators

Partnership has always been part of how we deliver.

These organizations reflect documented past support or collaboration across Extended Hands programmes. Their inclusion does not imply that every relationship is currently active.

NNPCDocumented sponsor of fistula-repair interventions delivered with SNEPCo in multiple Nigerian states.
Shell / SNEPCoSNEPCo support is documented across Cross River, Ibadan, Kebbi and Sokoto fistula interventions.
Diamond Bank PLC
Documented sponsor of a fistula-repair intervention at Kwara Specialist Hospital, Ilorin.
Ford FoundationSupported Extended Hands' SGBV sensitisation work in schools and communities.
Lagos State DSVA
Government collaborator on school-based domestic and sexual violence awareness and engagement.
Coca-ColaPart of the Foundation's documented campaign and collaboration history.
Access BankPart of the Foundation's documented partner history.
UN WomenPart of the Foundation's documented institutional engagement history.