Ongoing
Kenya • Morocco • Nigeria • Senegal
Innovation:
informedmigration.org - multilingual platform in English, French, and Arabic, built to remain live beyond the project
Summary
The SAFE-MIT campaign has trained 1,252 teachers across Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and Senegal to deliver migration education using the Turning Tides escape game. Campaigns across Meta and TikTok have reached 42 million people. The multilingual platform - InformedMigration.org -, prepared in English, French, and Arabic, is built to sustain relevance and impact beyond the project's close.
1,252 teachers trained. 42 million people reached. A multilingual platform built to outlast the project.
1,252
teachers trained
42M+
Meta/tikTok reach
108
content pieces
100%
training targets met
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"My students weren't just listening. They were living the experience, facing impossible choices. The project moved them from awareness to action."
Mustapha Hammed, teacher, Kwara State, Nigeria
SAFE-MIT Training of Teachers on Moroccan National TV
At the heart of SAFE-MIT's classroom methodology is Seefar's Escape Game, an interactive learning experience that helps teachers guide students through realistic migration scenarios. The programme has trained teachers across four countries to deliver engaging, evidence-based migration education within existing school curricula.
Morocco's national television featured SAFE-MIT teacher training and the Escape Game methodology.
The Turning Tides Escape Game
At the heart of SAFE-MIT's classroom methodology is Seefar's Escape Game, an interactive learning experience that helps teachers guide students through realistic migration scenarios. The programme has trained teachers across four countries to deliver engaging, evidence-based migration education within existing school curricula.
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Morocco Can Become the Europe They're Seeking
Haitham, Moroccan student
Playing the escpe game, Haitham Houri solved a series of puzzles that revealed the real risks young Moroccans face when migrating irregularly to Europe. Rather than believing life abroad is automatically easier, he nos sees building a future, and finding scholarships and opportunities, closer to home as a genuine path to success.
Digital Campaigns That Reach Millions
SAFE-MIT's social media campaigns combine evidence-based messaging with trusted local voices. Across Meta and TikTok, campaigns have reached more than 42 million people, while influencers across Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and Senegal helped challenge misinformation through videos, stories, and interactive content.
InformedMigration.org
Designed to remain available and relevant beyond the project, InformedMigration.org is a multilingual platform in English, French, and Arabic. It brings together interactive games, teacher resources, campaign videos, quizzes, and country-specific information to help young people make informed migration decisions.
The platform is available in English, French, and Arabic, with country-specific content and interactive learning tools.
The platform is available in English, French, and Arabic, with country-specific content and interactive learning tools.
The platform is available in English, French, and Arabic, with country-specific content and interactive learning tools.
Testing Before Scale
Before nationwide implementation, SAFE-MIT partners tested classroom activities, gathered participant feedback, and refined training materials to ensure they reflected local contexts and education systems across participating countries.
SAFE-MIT interviews playlist
This playlist brings together the people behind SAFE-MIT educational outreach efforts: the Educational Outreach Experts who trained teachers and coordinated delivery in each country, the teachers who brought the escape game into their classrooms, and the students whose thinking shifted because of it. Together, their voices tell the story of an outreach effort that reached over 100,000 students, and is now being explored for integration into national education systems in Morocco and Kenya.
Voices from the Classroom
Teachers consistently describe the Escape Game as changing how students think about migration. Rather than discussing fictional scenarios, students start to reflect on real people, real choices, and safer alternatives available to them.
Sara Grounjar, Teacher and Escape Game Facilitator, Morocco . In Morocco, Ms. Sara Grounjar, a French teacher at Imam Ali Middle School in Salé, says the session will undoubtedly help guide our students in their thinking and encourage them to make safe and responsible choices, rather than exposing themselves to risks that could endanger their lives."
In Nigeria, Mustapha Hammed describes a moment that captures what the Escape Game uniquely achieves.
"Sir, what happened to the people in the game?" "She wasn't asking about fictional characters; she was asking about people,"Mustapha reflects. "My students weren't just listening, they were living the experience, facing impossible choices." That moment, he says, “moved his class from awareness to conscience”.
Voices from the Classroom
Teachers consistently describe the Escape Game as changing how students think about migration. Rather than discussing fictional scenarios, students begin reflecting on real people, real choices, and safer alternatives available to them.
Sara Grounjar, Teacher and Escape Game Facilitator, Morocco . In Morocco, Ms. Sara Grounjar, a French teacher at Imam Ali Middle School in Salé, says the session will undoubtedly help guide our students in their thinking and encourage them to make safe and responsible choices, rather than exposing themselves to risks that could endanger their lives."
In Nigeria, Mustapha Hammed describes a moment that captures what the Escape Game uniquely achieves.
"Sir, what happened to the people in the game?" "She wasn't asking about fictional characters; she was asking about people,"Mustapha reflects. "My students weren't just listening, they were living the experience, facing impossible choices." That moment, he says, “moved his class from awareness to conscience”.
Building Local Capacity
SAFE-MIT also strengthens the communications capacity of partner organisations beyond the four implementation countries. NGOs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Tunisia, and The Gambia received training to design and manage their own evidence-based social media campaigns, helping ensure the project's approach continues beyond its lifetime.
