Exploring Non-formal Education Intervention in Rehabilitation of Brothel Based Female Commercial Sex Workers in Sokoto State, Nigeria

Abstract

The need to go beyond economic rehabilitation of commercial sex workers is a must if Sokoto State will thrive in its efforts towards rehabilitation of commercial sex workers. It is against this backdrop that this paperjustifies the need for rehabilitation of commercial sex workers and undertakes a programme analysis of existing rehabilitation interventions focusing on whether or not they can assist commercial sex workers to achieve rehabilitation. ft posits that a nonformal education rehabilitation has capacity to deliver effective and relevant rehabilitation intervention/or commercial sex workers. The paper concludes that to help reform and rehabilitate sex workers interventions must be comprehensive to address the multipurpose needs that sex work has su~jected sex workers to. The paper recommends among others that adult and non-formal educators should experiment this intervention with a small group of sex workers with the view to reporting its efficacy in the rehabilitation exercise and that advocacy for creating awareness and promotion of nonformal education rehabilitation paradigm should be championed by adult educators through writing, sensitisation, workshops for rehabilitation stakeholders (government and NGOs, social welfares, religious bodies, etc,) to popularize the paradigm