Girls are leaders. Girls are change-makers. Girls are driving good and growth around the world. They are a fundamental source of transformational change for gender equality, and technology is a crucial tool to support their work, activism and leadership ( UN Women 2021). Every year on the 11th of October, we celebrate the The International […]
Defined as marriages involving people below 18 years of age, child marriages violate children’s rights to protection from harmful practices. They expose them to risk of Gender Based Violence (GBV) and sexual abuse and also limit career options of girls who tend to become stay-at-home parents after falling pregnant. The teenage pregnancies themselves pose serious […]
What are digital generations? You can look at it from several viewpoints. As a singular view, a digital generation can be considered as encompassing only people who were born into or raised in the digital era, meaning with wide-spread access to modern-age technology such as smartphones, tablets, computers, and digital information like the internet. One can also say that digital […]
We celebrated World Menstrual Hygiene day with girls from Imo Government Girl’s Secondary School Owerri. This year’s theme centred on Action and Investment in Menstrual Hygiene and Health. The girls were educated on the importance of proper hygiene especially when they are menstruating. They were enlightened on the need to drop the stigma associated with […]
It was an exciting event today at the Girls Secondary School, Ikenegbu, Owerri. We interacted with the girls and enlightened them on the need to assert their power as change makers in the society. The girls were excited, and expressed their joy to be part of a generation where girls are breaking boundaries and barriers […]
September 8th each year is set aside to mark UNESCO’s International Literacy day. The importance of literacy from childhood to adulthood cannot be over emphasized. Every International Literacy Day, we are reminded of the status of literacy among children and adult learning globally. This year’s theme is focused on Literacy teaching and learning in the […]
The increase in the incidence of rape is heart wrenching and disheartening. As if we as women haven’t been burdened enough, adding domestic violence, rape, and victim shaming to it is a lot to bear. COVID-19 is difficult and challenging for us all, why increase the burden on women and the girl-child. Ms. Uwa’s only […]
COVID-19 has topped all discussions in recent times, it’s on every news station, all social media platforms local and foreign. We have seen this virus ravage countries we regard as superpowers, even with their advancement in science and technology. My question now is, what is Nigeria doing about this plague? How prepared are we as […]
The 28th day of May every year is set aside to mark the World Menstrual Hygiene Day. Millions of girls in Nigeria and Africa still find it difficult to access sanitary pads to enable them to maintain proper hygiene during their menstrual period. Some of our girls still use old clothes or tissue paper as […]
Happy Children’s day to our beautiful children all over the globe Children are little humans and they hear us, they see us, they have emotions and most of all, they do what they see us do. Let this Children’s day celebration be a reminder for us adults to be everything we want to see in […]