Tino Hond: "U should see the horror in young girls eyes when I share my growing up stories and what it took to make something of myself. Then comes admiration, inspiration and the birth of a desire to rise too. Ko…
It was not business as usual at the United Nations (UN) complex today as Delphine Serumaga led her staff to paint the whole compound orange. All staff and visitors were wearing orange to mark the UN Secretary General's…
As part of the U.S. Government’s commitment to Let Girls Learn, The White House and the Office of First Lady Michelle Obama and the U.S. Peace Corps have formed a powerful collaboration to expand access to education for…
Sex is a huge part of life, and sex education is incredibly important. There are many basic questions on this lips of most girls about what it is and what not. Girls will want to know if "NORMAL" is what they feel, how they…
The suffering and burdens of women and girls calls for attention. Their daily toil to make ends meet yields little fruit. Poverty within the female rankd affects their quality of live. Their vulnerability exposes them to…
The suffering and burdens of women and girls calls for attention. Their daily toil to make ends meet yields little fruit. Poverty within the female rankd affects their quality of live. Their vulnerability exposes them to…
On daily bases, there are reports of sexual abuses in news headlines. These sexual abuses is more rampant among female rural adolescent .The rural girls are prone to these sexual predictors’ than their urban counterparts due…
President Obama spent his weekend in Nairobi, Kenya. It has been an exciting couple of days, mostly because of the Global Enterpreneurship summit 2015 which was being held here and simply because we could not believe that…
HELLO BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE! “Around the world, there is a tradition of repressing women and treating them differently and not giving the same opportunities; husbands beating their wives and children not being sent to school;…
AFADIwomen's campaign "SAVE THAT MOTHER AND CHILD IN LABOR" For a woman to die or loose a baby during labor it’s not just the husband alone or her family that loses, but rather the nation itself and the entire world at large…
At the heart of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown stood a dilapidated community, the Falcon Bridge which is also part of the Susan’s bay community. The 3000 residents of Falcon Bridge community, like all other local…
On Saturday the 15th of August 2015, 17 years old commercial sex worker Hannah Bockarie was brutally raped and murdered at Sierra Leone’s most popular beach; the Lumley beach in Freetown. While investigations are ongoing,…
She will connect is a program that connects young girls and women to a world of opportunities. Meeting with friends and mentors I have come to learn and also offer my knowledge in this platform. Thanks to YTF
Hello All, I am very happy to be at the training organised by the UN Women in collaboration with the Centre for Women Development onTechnology and Entrepreneurship Training for Women in Nigeria (TETWIN). It's been an…
Our plane was to land at 5:45 Freetown time. But it couldn’t. There had been a very heavy downpour and the tarmac was covered in water. The pilot announced that he would be hovering the Atlantic Ocean for about fifteen…
Patriarchy is a social system in which men dominate and in which powers and possessions belong only to men. There exist both patriarchal men and women. A patriarchal woman is one who has internalized the norms and values of…
Female Genital Mutilation has no Place in this day and Age According to WHO, female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to…
there is need to protect girls against forced or unforced early marriages in order to help them live a dignified life.we have to protect a generation of our kids
Should Broke boyfriends have girlfriends? That was the subject and some people thought that I had deviated from the topic when I decided to analyze it as a human rights activist but for me I think it wasn’t a deviation it…
My Journey has been driven by my passion to see a better world for girls and women. I am a trained lawyer with over 14 years experience as a gender, media and communication consultant. I have worked on various projects…
With the introduction of Spark a Child's program in Matete, public schools have seen tremendous changes from infrastructure to education. More kids have enrolled in schools and retention rate observed. Drop-out has been…
