Borders, Vulnerability, and Protection: Panel Discussion at Washington University, St Louis Last week our founder, Angus Thomas, sat on a panel at Washington University in St Louis. The Clark-Fox Policy Institute, the Forced Migration Initiative, and the Brown School Global Programs Office brought together researchers and frontline practitioners to ask a hard question: how do …
The SOMA Global Sisterhood Circle We are bringing together teenage girls from Tamale, Ghana and from around the world for five sessions over five weeks of honest conversation. This is not a course but a sisterhood circle – built on the belief that young women have something real to say to each other across every …
Coprophilic Exploitation in Trafficking Contexts: A Critical Gap in the Academic Literature This post accompanies the Hope Education Project’s lived experience reporting on porta potty exploitation among Nigerian women trafficked to the UAE. It examines the state of the academic literature and the specific scholarly gap that survivor testimony from our ongoing research study is …
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What Is Porta Potty? Understanding the Term in a Nigerian Context This page presents porta potty Nigeria survivor testimony collected as part of an ongoing Hope Education Project study. This page presents lived experience testimony collected as part of an ongoing qualitative research study by the Hope Education Project. All interviews were conducted under informed …
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What’s happening in Northern Ghana – and why it matters for trafficking prevention The displacement picture in Northern Ghana is more complex than a single UNHCR dashboard can capture, and that complexity matters directly for HEP’s work. The February 2026 UNHCR statistics record 32,464 forcibly displaced persons registered in Ghana, with the vast majority concentrated …
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Transhumance Corridors and Trafficking Risk in Northern Ghana IOM published a new report this month. It maps 17 transhumance corridors running from Burkina Faso into northern Ghana – the seasonal routes that Fulani and other pastoralist communities use to move their herds south in search of grazing and water.It is solid baseline work. Corridors, water …
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Hope Education Project UK has two remote volunteer roles open on Reach Volunteering. We are looking for a Chair of Trustees to lead our governance and strategic direction, and a Social Media Strategy Lead to shape how we communicate our anti-trafficking and girls’ education work in Ghana. Both roles are flexible, values-driven, and open now. Find out more and apply today.
Reports reveal African men are victims of trafficking for armed conflict in Russia, lured by fake job ads. Discover how the Hope Education Project uses digital safety education to protect vulnerable job seekers from these deadly recruitment scams.
QNet in Ghana: The Promise, The Reality, and The New BBC Investigation For years, the name “QNet” has sparked heated debate across West Africa. To some, it is presented as a life-changing business opportunity; to others, it is synonymous with sophisticated fraud. This week, a new BBC Africa Eye documentary has brought the issue back …
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Hope Education Project UK Is now a registered charity We’re proud to announce that the Hope Education Project UK is now officially registered as a UK charity. HEP UK is a separate entity to Hope Education Project Ghana, a registered NPO in Ghana and is an important next-step towards building a sustainable operational model for …
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From Illicit Hubs to Exploitation: Organized Crime in Northern Ghana Fuels Trafficking Vulnerability The Illicit Hub Mapping in West Africa 2025 report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) this week validates our choice of Tamale for the pilot program. The city lies in a high-risk corridor where organized crime and illicit economies …
Child-Centred Prevention and Filling the Data Gaps in Ghana Children’s Voices Expose Hidden Risks In Northern Ghana, children themselves are showing us where protection systems fall short. In our pilot program in Tamale, junior high school students and out-of-school girls used theatre, storytelling, and role play to surface risks in their own words. One …
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