Crime and Drugs Prevention Education

The crisis of drug trafficking in West Africa is gaining attention…Alarm bells are ringing about the volume of cocaine transiting the region (roughly 50 tons a year). West Africa…has become a hub for cocaine trafficking … worth almost $2 billion a year. This is more than a drugs problem. It is a serious security threat (UNODC 2008: 1). Organized transnational criminal groups pose threats to West Africa’s fragile states and to democratic governance processes and institutions. The established link between drug trafficking in West Africa and Europe highlights the need for the European Union (EU) to engage its West African counterparts in fighting the negative impacts of organized crime in West Africa, including its corrosive effects on democratic institutions – parliaments, the judiciary, political parties and the executive arm of government.
No one wants to be a victim of crime or have their family hurt or community endangered. But fewer people understand how preventing crime, drugs, human trafficking or violence in the first place avoids the physical pain, the mental anguish, the financial cost, and the social deterioration.
Many research indicates users of illicit substances at initial ages could lead to several risk factors that may increase the probability of continued and awkward use in future, WAVDI aims is to empower young people to become more proactive in their schools, communities in the prevention of crime and drugs prevention education.
Prevention must be addressed at three levels: individual, group, and the bigger institution. We can prevent crime by working with the potential victim, the potential offender, and changing the potential situation in which a crime could be committed. We can only achieve our goals by collaborating with educators, community leaders, families, Government Agencies, donors and partners and relevant Law enforcement institutions.