Obisakin Busayo

Joined Feb 2009
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  • Voices of Our Future 2009
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End Harmful and Violent Practices Against Women with Me

What I'm Leading

The patriarchal nature of our society still runs very deep. One out of 3 women experiences physical or sexual violence in their lifetime, mostly by an intimate partner. Girls under age 18 are married off every day and thousands of girls are being subjected to genital mutilation/cutting every day. Safety of women and girls is getting worse by day in Nigeria as a result of bad leadership, abject poverty, and an unsecured environment.

As long as girls and women fear for their safety, they cannot realize their full potential. Securing their dignity rests upon eliminating the threat of gender-based violence and harmful practices everywhere.

Women and girls must be able to find their voices, express their power, and live their dreams! Their agency must be developed.

I believe in the inherent potential and ability of every woman to overcome obstacles, take control of her life, emerge confident and strong then make meaningful contributions to her society. I am a living example of this!

I am dedicated to reducing gender-based violence and harmful practices to the barest minimum

Who I'm Impacting

4000 young women in two years!

How to Get Involved

My Updates

MY DEFINITION OF SECURITY Sep 23, 2018 AGENCY BASED EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOP WITH ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ANTIDOTE TO POVERTY AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE Jul 04, 2018 RESCUE FOR THE ABANDONED May 31, 2018 CHALLENGE OF BEING A CHANGE MAKER May 03, 2018 HAZARD OF BEING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTIVIST Mar 20, 2018 Failure to Success: The Story of Seven Years of Women Empowerment Mar 11, 2018

Bio

About Me

I am the founder/CEO, Women Inspiration development Center, an initiative that offers a safe place, counselling and agency empowerment workshops for battered women and their children in Nigeria to envision and create new possibilities for themselves and be free from horror of domestic violence. www.widc.com.ng We organize Agency Empowerment workshops for both men and women for them to create a vision of no violence and means of livelihood. I have B.Ed and M.A. in Counselling Psychology. I am Voice of our Future Correspondence (VOF) 2009 graduate. World Pulse gave me a scholarship to US to attend Empowerment Institute Certification program in New York where I learned a powerful and innovative social change program. I also became part of an International Initiative called IMAGINE. I won Josie Maran Award for Imagine Trainers worth $25,000 in 2016. www.imagineprogram.net

My Vision

"Healthy and safe women make healthy nations" This is what I live for.

Needs

I need collaborators. Your donation of $20 every month would go a long way in helping us to provide succour for a battered woman.

Abilities

I am an Empowerment Workshop trainer and the workshop can fit into any society or situation. The workshop can also be given online

Interests

Economic PowerGender-based ViolenceGirlsLeadershipMen and BoysTechnology

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