A Non profit in Nigeria , built on a simple conviction: the people closest to a problem are closest to its solution.
The Society for the Rights of the Excluded and Disempowered (SOREX) is a Nigerian non-profit organisation working at the intersection of human rights, social justice, climate justice, social protection, urban resilience and youth-inclusive development.
We were established to serve people the development sector routinely overlooks — those living through humanitarian crises, communities affected by climate change and poor resource governance, and groups excluded from or harmed by the digital age. Since [2012], we have worked alongside government institutions, UN agencies, community-based organisations and private-sector partners to reach those left out of mainstream development.
Our work has taken us from refugee settlements in Cross River, where displaced women built cooperative enterprises that now fund humanitarian action in their own communities, to Konduga in Borno State, where young people are learning trades that offer a future, to the informal settlements of Lagos, where we are working to make extreme heat a risk that can finally be insured against.
At the heart of everything is gender justice — because inequality and gender-based violence are not simply women’s issues. They are systemic barriers to peace, dignity and development for entire communities.
A world where people have safe spaces to engage peacefully and effectively in making decisions that affect their own lives.
To promote inclusive access to livelihoods and productive resources for indigenous women, migrants and other vulnerable populations — working at the intersection of human rights, gender justice, climate justice, social protection, urban resilience and youth-inclusive development.
A world where people have safe spaces to engage peacefully and effectively in making decisions that affect their own lives.
To promote inclusive access to livelihoods and productive resources for indigenous women, migrants and other vulnerable populations — working at the intersection of human rights, gender justice, climate justice, social protection, urban resilience and youth-inclusive development.
Nigeria’s most vulnerable communities face converging pressures — conflict, climate change, and exclusion from the very systems built to protect them.
Participants are selected by Community Targeting Committees — traditional leaders, women's representatives, youth leaders and local officials — against transparent criteria, with private interviews that protect dignity.
In Lagos, informal workers are designing the financial product meant to protect them. In Ogoja, women built their own enterprise model. We facilitate. They decide.
Minimum participation targets for women. Separate consultations led by female staff where cultural norms limit women's voice. Activities timed for safe participation. When nursing mothers could not attend training, we arranged childcare rather than accept their absence.
Transparent selection to prevent resentment. Activities open to the whole community. Security coordination and flexible planning in fragile settings. Communications that never put a participant at risk.
Our livelihoods model tapers deliberately — participants move from supervised work to full independence, keeping a rising share of what they earn until they keep all of it.
We sub-grant to community groups and build consortium structures so informal organisations gain real financial management capacity while delivering services themselves.
