Aminata Boye, whose 19-year-old son disappeared while attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean to reach Europe, has channelled her grief into founding the Collective of Victims of Irregular Migration in Senegal in 2020. Based in Mbour's Tefees neighbourhood (a coastal town south of Dakar long associated with clandestine Atlantic crossings), the group now supports more than a hundred women and works with organisations such as the Red Cross to trace missing migrants. Boye is calling on governments to expand legal migration pathways and create opportunities at home, arguing that young people risk their lives at sea out of economic necessity rather than recklessness.