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ead or to ask someone in the house to do so. After you have read this piece ofpaper, if you go out and say my daughter is in Italy, you should be ashamed»”(Interview Victim No.5).Initiatives of sensitisation of this type, to have real effect, should be carefullyorganised, with a wide involvement of the NGOs, local associations, religiousorganisations, schools, and government institutions. The moment for informationshould not be disconnected from the life of the community.What appears to be important is the indication of a social operator according towhom the moment of information should always be accompanied by “a work onthe alternatives” (Associazione Tampep - Turin). It is evident in fact that even themost careful information has blunt weapons against the extreme need which, often,induces the family to push the daughter towards a “risky” migration path. Povertygenerates a disposal to believe, or to pretend to believe, in the promises of theexploiters, as a victim acutely explained: “If you are in need, you always believe”(Interview Victim No.7).The information towards the family could therefore produce major results interms of prevention, as long as it is integrated with concrete support actions: invocational training of young women and above all in their accompanying to work.“You must be aware however that these are long term actions” (Associazione Onthe Road - Martinsicuro). Particularly efficacious in these projects, could be, atleast on a symbolic level, the direct involvement of ex victims, disposed to workcontemporarily on the level of the witness and on the level of preventive action.Even in this perspective, it would be important to evaluate the experiences and thealready existing projects for the support of the repatriated victims.The social operators agree, however, in maintaining that only a small number ofrepatriated women are materially available to carry out a direct role of sensitisation.The major obstacles are the social stigma, the financial and human difficulties thatalways accompany the forced repatriation.Two complementary paths can be envisaged for the direct involvement of theex-victims. The first path aims at evaluating the testimony of those who voluntarilychose repatriation, after a knowledgeable path of emancipation or however of thewomen trafficked and still resident in Italy, but ready to re-enter Nigeria toundertake the work of testimony. The second path is rather more arduous andpasses through the capacity to transform the forced repatriation into an occasion ofredemption. The reception, assistance, and accompaniment to the social reinsertionin Nigeria of the repatriated women could be placed at the service ofprevention. This challenge however needs an autonomous thorough closeexamination.Concerning the help action for the repatriated victims, the attention of theNGOs, associations, religious organisations that operate in Italy in support of theNigerian victims is very high. In all the operators interviewed there is theknowledge that the forced repatriation today is for the victims a surplus of sufferingand a hard condemnation: in the best of the cases, to the social emargination in thecontext of origin; the repetition of sexual exploitation - in Nigeria or whetherthrough the re-starting of the circuit of the traffic - in the worst case. It is urgent