D2O World - Mission Statement

To promote and provide support for any local NGOs involved at a grassroots level with humanitarian, educational, farming, aid projects, disaster relief etc.; to assist in obtaining funds, supplies and/or personnel; initiate partnerships domestically and within the recipient country; provide project and geographic consultation when requested; and aid in the funding process using whatever resources that may be available. Coalition members and partners provide mission services and promotion of their work and need.

From Poverty in Africa to Sex Slavery in Italy

When 20-year-old Isoke Aikpitanyi was offered a job in Italy in 2000 she leapt at the chance. Life was difficult at home in Nigeria and opportunities for young women were limited and few. She knew that she would have to enter the country illegally and that the promised job would be low-paying and menial — that of a maid or nanny perhaps. But it seemed better than staying home, and the woman who made the job offer would also make the travel arrangements and pay the costs, which Ms. Aikpitanyi would repay from her earnings.

It was only after her arrival in Italy, that things went terribly wrong. Shortly after her arrival, she said, she was told that “foreigners without permits can only do one job in Italy — work the streets” as a prostitute. “They told me I had to pay a debt of $20,000. The week before, they killed a girl who slept in my bedroom because she refused to pay. My resistance only lasted four weeks.”

Failure to work or earn enough, she continued, was punished with violence. One beating left her in a coma for three days. Women who tried to escape were often murdered as a lesson to others. “I was a sex slave. They deceived me to come to Italy for a job that didn’t exist.”
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ISOKE AIKPITANYI'S TESTIMONY
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HOW IT USUALLY STARTS...

This video is a re-enactment of what happen in real life to thousands of young Nigerian women, who are enticed to come to Europe with the promise of good jobs...to end up in  prostitution...Help us to raise awareness for this form of slavery. Share our information through your F.B network, churches, work place school etc.

Europe .. the Eldorado of Africans

The focus of this page is on the incredible and deadly journey that thousands of Africans - men, women and children - make every year as they attempt to reach Southern Europe. Many of them die during this journey, either in the Sahara desert or drowning in the sea. We have collected several videos that tell stories of this horrific feat of desperation. We at D2O, hope that, through this visual testimonies, you can see a reality unknown to many here in America.

Our desire is for the Church to understand why hundreds of thousands of human beings are willing to risk their lives chasing a dream, Without understanding, we become judgmental and critical of other people who are different from us...simply because we have no idea why they do what they do, we are indifferent to their lives! I was like this when I began my missionary/social work among the Nigerian and Ghanaian community in Castelvolturno, Italy. I was eager to judge and condemn their uncivilized and pagan ways of living...but mostly just I thought they had degraded and trashed "my " town.

I was indignant at the sight of young girls standing along the Domitiana road waiting for a sex customer. I wished they would disappear so that my children would not see them. I was like this until the very day some Nigerians began to attend my church. Then I begun to know them, hear their life stories and their brave journies of hope...hope that had crashed on the shores of Lampedusa in far southern Europe. For those who survived, their nightmare continued, especially for the women. I heard many wishing that they had died in the Sahara or in the Mediterranean.

We can come together and show the love and compassion of Christ - Do 2 Others!

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Why they do it?

This two part video explores the reasons why so many Africans are leaving their homes, to begin a deadly journey that has no guarantee that will ever end as they hoped. The stories that you see and hear in this video are common to all Africans who make that decision, whether they come from Mali, Burkina Faso or Nigeria...they all sounds the same!

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The Sahara Crossing

Who will make it?

Warning!!

This video contains graphic images. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Death in the Desert

Warning!!

This video also contains graphic images of dead people.

Viewer discretion is advised.

We posted here because the images are not gratuitous, they are inspirational

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Lampedusa

Promise land or the death of a dream?

For those who made it, it may seems the end of a hellish nightmare, which started 2 or 3 years earlier... they have survived the desert, smugglers, Libya and the open sea..they have finally arrived to Europe..But, little they know that another struggle for survival is about to begin. Few will make it!

Project " La Domitiana" Castelvolturno, Italy

This is a video of our current project " La Domitiana", in Castelvolturno, Italy. What you will see is a snapshot of the area and the current living situation of thousands of African Immigrants and refugee along this 30-mile road.

-Please scroll down for more videos-

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The following 2 part video is an original documentary produced by the Italian News network R.A.I., and rebroadcast with English subtitle by BBC World. This video explores in depth various angles of what it means living along the Domitiana road, and the condition of the African community that was established on it.

La Domitiana

English subs pt1

La Domitiana

English subs pt2

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I Am An African

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DreamAfrica video productions

Interesting video remembering the six African immigrants killed on September 18th 2008. The author of this video focuses on what it means to be an African immigrant in Castelvolturno.