"VOF Week 4: Working to see a changed World"

When I met the Pulse Wire team during the AWID Forum in Cape town, it occurred to me that I was meeting a powerful team that will change history as far as women issues and advancement are concern.

Being a feminist and gender activist from Nigeria, I did not was time in joining Pulse Wire online Forum because I believe in gaining knowledge and building network. It occurred to me too that with Pulse Wire, my personal vision of fighting for the rights of women will be encouraged.

I am currently working with Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre where working to encourage Nigerian girls and women to learn about and use technology as a means of empowering themselves socially and economically is our priority.

W.TEC within a year had training up to 50 women and girls in the use of web 2.0 tools for activism, women’s rights advocacy as well as for their own individual advancement. Tapping into web 2.0 opportunities has opened door for a lot of these women. I wouldn’t have taking the courage of learning web 2.0 tools that I have heard about for 2 years before joining W.TEC if not for my employment opportunity with W.TEC Then when I learnt what I can achieve with web 2.0 tools, I regretted ever waited this long.

Via my activism blog, I have being offered a scholarship to attend BlogHer Conference in Chicago, Illinois in July 2009. That is a power of making a difference. That is gaining more ground in doing my work and joining others around the world to learn and work more for the greater good.

My personal vision is to go back to school and study law which will help me be a women’s human right lawyer and activist and so many cases of abuse of women and girls that I know of in my community can then be handled by my chamber. I am currently working towards my law admission.

I leave to see a world of equality where all forms of discriminations against women and girls would be history, where abusive of women and girls will be long gone, where female leaders will be free to carry out their obligations without fear, where a lot of women will assume leadership roles.

I have heard jobs before but now I have a career and my career is now my life. Being a correspondent for World Pulse will be an opportunity to keep me focus, to share with the world my belief and my vision for change and to be a part of a larger community working to promote women leadership, end inequality in all forms and end all forms of violence against women.

I see myself as a change agent relevant to the work of Pulse Wire as Pulse Wire work is relevant to mine.