In a country like Nigeria where life is very hard for single mothers, abused women, and rural women—the majority of our target group—how can we help the women to take off comfortably after our training?
I am on a mission to educate and empower girls in rural communities. This, I do through offering scholarships to underprivileged girls and most importantly, creating what we call Girls' Lead Clubs in rural secondary school…
On July 10th I posted a need onour resource page, asking for financial support to enable us organise a skill acquisition program for our adolescent mothers at Ijegun,Ikotun, Lagos. The date scheduled for the training was…
Last week, I was at a hostel for orphaned young women in Chennai, teaching them ways to stay safe, to keep their bodies safe, and how to respond to violence in the event that they find themselves in the middle of it.
Hi friends, i know i just disappeared from sending my update. This my new year, and my new month. Sep 11 is the first day of Ethiopian New Year. Happy New Year !!!! Last June i meet one old lady on a bus and we were chatting…
Our latest meeting with the Adolescent mothers at Ijegun held few days ago. Our primary purpose was to follow up on the last skill acquisition training where we taught them how to make bar soap and encouraged them to start…
Domestic violence makes me sick! Each punch, pinch, kick, slap, hitting with a fist, thrashing with a cane, heavy blow, verbal attack, denial of my rights, and rejection feels like a sword piercing under my ribs.
I gazed in awe at the muddy looking water in the bucket in front of me, as I wondered if we were actually expected to or would dare gulp the contents...
During the past 3 months, some female leaders and parents in my community have taken time off their busy schedules to visit CYEED digital empowerment center for girls. http://www.cyeed.net/ “Bring a girl to STEM” is…
Sometime in July 2017 I got wind of a training opportunity for journalists, sponsored by one of the leading communication service providers in Nigeria, Airtel. It was a three days free training to equip journalist with multi…
Last month I received an exciting massage via face book messenger form a lady appreciating the work I do for our girls. Her words were so kind and touching. Later on she inviting me to be one of the special guests on her TV…
This post comes from the grassroot work led by Breaking the Silence in Ukhrul district in India's northeastern state of Manipur and has been developed from the field diary with an aim to share experiences from the region…
Dear All Thank you so much for your encouragements, kind hopes and kind wishes for our girls. I am sorry to let you know that two of our girls have passed the entrance exam . They were in the 200 selections out of 880…
