End Almajiri Child Slavery: Nigeria
Tax deductible
FULLY FUNDED! THANKS TO EVERYONE!
“Almajiri” are boys delivered to Islamic centers as young as 4-years-old, by impoverished parents seeking the free “education” Muslim teachers (malams) provide.
10 million Almajiris are enslaved in this system in northern Nigeria.
They’re brainwashed, learning only the Koran, beaten if they recite improperly.
The boys sleep in filthy quarters; they beg, barefoot, starving in the streets; they are sodomized ; they are “rented out” as slaves; they are chained up ; they are abducted and used in sacrifices by cultists.
66.2% are drug-users - 95% have intestinal worms.
60% of Almajiris never return to their homes. They are trapped in poverty, uneducated, unemployable, damaged by abuse.
Many end up as criminals or as terrorists - 80% of Boko Haram are ex-Almajiri. Info HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE
“its undignified, it’s subhuman, no one should be subjected to that kind of life” - Chidi Odinkalu, Nigerian Human Rights Commission Chairman
Brighter Brains Institute (BBI), a humanist USA nonprofit, seeks to eliminate the societal crises Almajjiri system.
We join millions of Nigerians (of every religion) to end this human rights catastrophe.
BBI formed the Nigeria Humanist Policy Centre - (NHPC), directed by humanist Nigerians, to: 1) advocate the end of Almajiri slavery; 2) to deliver employable skills to the boys; 3) to alleviate their present-day suffering.
BBI/NHPC is collaborating with Humanist Society of Northern Nigeria, Atheist Society of Nigeria, and ENDS [Every Nigerian Do Something].
Leo Igwe - winner of the Distinguished Services to Humanism Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) - is a NHPC director; plus Hauwa Mahdi, PhD., a distinguished lecturer on gender relationships and child rights; and activist Mubarak Bala (who condemns the Almajiri system HERE and HERE).
BUDGET
$250 : Teach soap-making skills to Almajiri in the city of Maiduguri, Borno state. Workshop instructs 30 boys for 40 hours (4 hrs per day, 5 days a week, for 2 weeks)
$250 : Deliver clothes, food, and intestinal parasite medicine to Almajiri in Maiduguri, Zaria, Kaduna.
$250 : promotional cost of advertising via billboards, newspapers, magazines, flyers, radio and television, for elimination of the Almajiri system.
$200 : organizational support to activist groups who advocate ending the Almajiri system. Costs include websites, licenses, registration fees.
$58 : Research and postage costs, enabling NHPC to send our policy suggestions to Nigerian professors, politicians, business, and media leaders.
$72 : GoFundMe fees
$45 : bank wiring costs
$975 TOTAL (FULLY FUNDED - THANKS!
All donors receive a receipt that’s USA tax deductible, plus you’ll get regular updates on our progress in photos, emails, receipts, and articles.
“Almajiri” are boys delivered to Islamic centers as young as 4-years-old, by impoverished parents seeking the free “education” Muslim teachers (malams) provide.
10 million Almajiris are enslaved in this system in northern Nigeria.
They’re brainwashed, learning only the Koran, beaten if they recite improperly.
The boys sleep in filthy quarters; they beg, barefoot, starving in the streets; they are sodomized ; they are “rented out” as slaves; they are chained up ; they are abducted and used in sacrifices by cultists.
66.2% are drug-users - 95% have intestinal worms.
60% of Almajiris never return to their homes. They are trapped in poverty, uneducated, unemployable, damaged by abuse.
Many end up as criminals or as terrorists - 80% of Boko Haram are ex-Almajiri. Info HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE
“its undignified, it’s subhuman, no one should be subjected to that kind of life” - Chidi Odinkalu, Nigerian Human Rights Commission Chairman
Brighter Brains Institute (BBI), a humanist USA nonprofit, seeks to eliminate the societal crises Almajjiri system.
We join millions of Nigerians (of every religion) to end this human rights catastrophe.
BBI formed the Nigeria Humanist Policy Centre - (NHPC), directed by humanist Nigerians, to: 1) advocate the end of Almajiri slavery; 2) to deliver employable skills to the boys; 3) to alleviate their present-day suffering.
BBI/NHPC is collaborating with Humanist Society of Northern Nigeria, Atheist Society of Nigeria, and ENDS [Every Nigerian Do Something].
Leo Igwe - winner of the Distinguished Services to Humanism Award from the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) - is a NHPC director; plus Hauwa Mahdi, PhD., a distinguished lecturer on gender relationships and child rights; and activist Mubarak Bala (who condemns the Almajiri system HERE and HERE).
BUDGET
$250 : Teach soap-making skills to Almajiri in the city of Maiduguri, Borno state. Workshop instructs 30 boys for 40 hours (4 hrs per day, 5 days a week, for 2 weeks)
$250 : Deliver clothes, food, and intestinal parasite medicine to Almajiri in Maiduguri, Zaria, Kaduna.
$250 : promotional cost of advertising via billboards, newspapers, magazines, flyers, radio and television, for elimination of the Almajiri system.
$200 : organizational support to activist groups who advocate ending the Almajiri system. Costs include websites, licenses, registration fees.
$58 : Research and postage costs, enabling NHPC to send our policy suggestions to Nigerian professors, politicians, business, and media leaders.
$72 : GoFundMe fees
$45 : bank wiring costs
$975 TOTAL (FULLY FUNDED - THANKS!
All donors receive a receipt that’s USA tax deductible, plus you’ll get regular updates on our progress in photos, emails, receipts, and articles.
Organizer
Hank Pellissier
Organizer
Oakland, CA
Brighter Brains Institute
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
