Campaign seeks to help educate escaped Nigerian schoolgirls 
 
 By Katy Senour 
 
 .- As more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing after being kidnapped this spring, one human rights group has started a campaign to help educate those who were able to escape. 
 
 
 
 “Right now as these courageous girls remain in Nigeria, they are confronted daily with the paralyzing fear of recapture and potential village attacks,” Jubilee Campaign legal intern Sarah Jane Norris told CNA. 
 
 
 
 “These are our sisters-in-Christ and they need our help.” 
 
 
 
 In April, the radical Islamic group Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 girls from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria. About 60 girls have escaped, according to report, but the majority remain missing despite government efforts to locate them. 
 
 
 
 Jubilee Campaign USA – a non-profit group that supports human rights and religious freedom – is now raising money to help further the education of several of the girls who have escaped. 
 
 
 
 This fits in with one of the organization’s stated goals, which is “to promote and protect vulnerable women and children from bodily harm and sexual exploitation, paying particular attention to the scourge of human trafficking or modern slavery which we oppose however we can, wherever we find it, in all of its forms.” 
 
 
 
 “We will assist 10 of the girl child victims, who courageously escaped the confines of their Boko Haram captors, by sending them to specialized boarding schools where their traumatic experiences may be transformed into empowering triumphs over evil,” said Norris. 
 
 
 
 Jubilee Campaign aims to raise $125,000 by Aug. 14, in order to help 10 of the girls to “have a fresh start and continue their education in a safe and nurturing environment.” 
 
 
 
 Along with providing an education to the young women, the fundraiser is a reminder “that the grand-scale of violence has not stopped in Chibok,” she added. 
 
 
 
 “Boko Haram unleashed and continues to unleash a vicious cycle of attacks on villages, churches, and schools,” she said, pointing to recent reports that 11 parents of the abducted girls have now died. 
 
 
 
 Jubilee Campaign also hosted a “100 Days of Captivity Rally” on July 24, marking 100 days since the girls had been kidnapped and urging the Nigerian government to do everything in its power to find and return the girls. 
 
 
 
 Ultimately, Norris said, the organization hopes to raise enough money to ensure the future of the escaped young women, and to be the light of Christ for them. 
 
 
 
 “If we can get these girls back in school in a safe environment, then the Chibok people, the Chibok culture, and these girls will survive in spite of Boko Haram,” she explained. 
 
 
 
 Jubilee Campaign’s fundraising website can be found at: http://www.youcaring.com/tuition-fundraiser/education-after-escape-1-month-10-girl-victims-125-000/206245 
 
 Tags: Women, Nigeria, Education, Boko Haram ||||| Recent U.S. surveillance flights over northeastern Nigeria showed what appeared to be large groups of girls held together in remote locations, raising hopes among domestic and foreign officials that they are among the group that Boko Haram abducted from a boarding school in April, U.S. and Nigerian officials said. 
 
 The surveillance suggests that at least some of the 219 schoolgirls still held captive haven't been forced into marriage... ||||| The Education After Escape campaign reached a significant goal of over $20,000 in its one month campaign (July 18- August 18, 2014). Help us raise even more funds to educate the escaped schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria by going to https://www.youcaring.com/nonprofits/education-after-escape/228007. 
 
 
 
 
 
 As the world’s attention turned to northern Nigeria and the demand for the return of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, it is important to note that although these women and children may escape Boko Haram’s clutches, they do not escape the long term effects of their capture. With the mass abductions of nearly 300 hundred Chibok girls, Boko Haram has had a chilling effect on girl education in northern Nigeria. Amazingly, some of the girls have managed to escape their vicious captors. 
 
 In the midst of this atrocity, the education of Nigeria’s girls has been disrupted and there is a real risk of having a lost generation, thereby risking the long-term peace and development in Nigeria and the wider region. Every girl deserves the right to an education! These rescued girls are living in constant fear of Boko Haram’s further vengeance and need your help. 
 
 Organizations like Jubilee Campaign USA are trying to make a difference. Jubilee Campaign, a US based non-profit organization with a track record of helping victims of violence in northern Nigeria, is assisting 10 of the girl child victims, who courageously escaped the confines of their Boko Haram captors, to send them to specialized boarding schools where their traumatic experiences may be transformed into empowering triumphs over evil. Each girl will be able to enroll in a school where she will grow in wisdom and stature while gaining mental and emotional support. Through this campaign, these girls who due to cost, environmental threats, or ongoing Boko Haram violence in Nigeria, would otherwise be out of school and thus their future potential and healing neglected, will have the opportunity to survive. 
 
 The Education After Escape Campaign seeks to be the change. We are looking to mobilize $125,000 in 1 month (by the end of August 2014) to support the transportation and education of 10 escaped girl victims from Boko Haram terrorists, leading them to a hopeful and successful future through education. 
 
 On behalf of the children that we help out, we thank you, so much. We have done this successfully with one girl from Chibok already. Now we want to do it for 10. 
 
 
 
 
 
 So what are you waiting for? Donate now! A donation of any amount will help. 
 
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 Who we are at Jubilee Campaign USA: 
 
 
 
 Information about all correctly registered charities in the U.S. is made available through Guidestar.org. Jubilee Campaign has been an IRS registered 501(c)(3) since 1991. You can find this information: 
 
 
 
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 Jubilee Campaign is listed with the Combined Federal Campaign, and our listing can be found by typing in our full name (Jubilee Campaign USA Inc) in that official website: 
 
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 Jubilee Campaign is listed as in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council on page 56 of this document on their website: 
 
 http://csonet.org/content/documents/e2013inf6.pdf 
 
 
 
 
 
 In October 2010, Jubilee Campaign undertook the Justice for Jos Project in order to advocate for victims of Boko Haram violence in northern Nigeria. Since then we have tirelessly advocated for Boko Haram to be designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization on Capitol Hill. Throughout that period, we have also been advocating for refugees and the internally displaced from northern Nigeria violence. Through this work and contacts within U.S. Congressional offices, we have raised awareness and brought help to victims of Boko Haram including introducing them to visiting U.S. Congressman Christopher Smith, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, and Congressman Steve Stockman. After contacting some of the escaped girls, ten of them completed applications to further their education in Europe or the U.S. We have secured admissions for these ten in boarding schools, and we are fundraising to cover the costs of these admissions, travel, and other needs. 
 
 With affiliated offices in Washington, D.C., the U.K., and the Netherlands, Jubilee Campaign is a U.S. registered 501c3 charity that seeks justice for the oppressed. We partner internationally to advance human rights and religious liberty of ethnic and religious minorities; advocate for the release of prisoners of conscience; and protect and champion the physical and spiritual freedom, safety, and care of children and families abandoned, orphaned, homeless, refugees, internally displaced persons, human trafficking victims, relief of poverty, and otherwise victimized or suffering injustice. Jubilee promotes peace, reconciliation, and rehabilitation in conflict areas and legally defends the right to life and dignity from biological conception to natural death where such defense is required. 
 
 
 

– The Wall Street Journal has a report raising hopes about the 200 or so Nigerian girls still missing after being kidnapped by Boko Haram. US surveillance planes have on at least two occasions spotted sizable groups of girls in remote locales in northeastern Nigeria. The girls had been moved by the time subsequent flights flew overhead, but the development suggests that instead of selling the girls into sex slavery as feared, Boko Haram is keeping them in the hopes of a prisoner swap with the government. In fact, the Journal quotes a Nigerian security adviser who says that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has given orders that "anybody found touching any of the girls should be killed immediately." President Goodluck Jonathan has publicly ruled out a prisoner exchange, but he is up for re-election in February and under heavy pressure to bring the girls home. Meanwhile, a human rights group has launched a campaign to provide educations for the girls who managed to escape, reports the Catholic News Agency.