Empowering 250 Young Women in Nigeria

In September, 20^th, 2024, one of our volunteers discovered Chioma, a 16 years old girl heavily pregnant engaging in hard labour giving to her by a trafficker who brought her to our community with the promise of helping her in exchange with the baby she was carrying.

Listening to Chioma’s story, we got to know that she dropped out of school because her only parent got sick and could not pay her school fees again. She then decided to go into helping work in homes. In one of the homes where she was working, the man of the house raped her which resulted to pregnancy. Immediately they discovered she was pregnant Chioma was sent packing from their home back to her father who was bedridden.

The father saw Chioma’s pregnancy as something who could bring shame to him in their community and so was looking for a way of sending her away from home to go and give birth to her child and give the child away and that was how she was brought to our community.

At 34 weeks of pregnancy, Chioma was not attending any anti natal clinic and nor seeing any private doctor. Immediately we discovered her, we took her straight to the hospital and did the scan of her baby, The baby was doing well but too big for Chioma to be able to give to him naturally but only through Cesarian operation.

A week later, she gave birth to a baby boy through cesarian operation. Our center paid the hospital bill took her to our shelter where we have been taking care of both mother and child.

Chioma presently is receiving home lesson through teachers that are coming home to teacher her so that she can finished high school education. She is now very happy that she can keep her baby and at the same time continue her education.

The teenage pregnancy rate in Nigeria is high. According to the 2018 Nigeria Demographic Health Survey, 1 in 5 adolescent females had begun childbearing. The rate varies from 28.5 births per 1000 adolescent females aged 15-19 years in the North-West geopolitical zone to 5.5 in the South-West

One of the key initiatives of Women inspiration development Center is providing support and resources to teenage mothers, enabling them to complete their education and build a brighter future. We have helped 5 teenage mothers since we got our shelter in 2022 through a corporate giver at GlobalGiving

WIDC works with healthcare providers to ensure that teenage mothers receive quality prenatal and postnatal care, reducing risks associated with childbirth and promoting the health of both mother and child.

We also provides counseling and mentor ship services to teenage mothers, addressing their emotional and psychological challenges they may face. We also have in place the Flexible Education Programs tailored to the needs of teenage mothers for them to continue their education in their convenient time with balancing their responsibilities as parents.

We want to thank our few donors at GlobalGiving for your support which has been helping us to continue to do this work even though with so much challenges. Your support is keeping us going! Our deep appreciations to you!

A GIANT LEAP

Women Inspiration Development Center Agency delivery which has been core of our programs  in the last 14 years took a big new turn this year as we got resources to train 20 grass root NGO leaders from 7 states in Nigeria so that they also be developing the agency of women and girls they are working with in their organizations. This giant step has enabled our work to help 2000 women and girls within the last six months to find their voices, discover their power, turning their negative thought as a result of hunger in our land to positive actions that will help them to continue to grow organically till they reach their goals in life.

This giant leap have also helped our organization to expand our network to 7 more states  and in the sphere of six month, we achieved  25% of the impact we made for 13 years. This is very huge for us and we know we wouldn’t have been able to achieve this without the support of the few of you that have been religiously supporting us for the past 8 years we have joined this platform.

This has also shown us the power of scaling agency development in Nigeria with population of 233,192,207 as at today 9^th of August, 2024.  Agency help every woman and girl has the power to shape her own destiny, to break free from the chains of societal limitations, and to create a future filled with endless possibilities. It also help men and boys as well to re-orientate their patriarchy thinking embrace a more inclusive nation and world.

Women Inspiration Development Center is embarking on creating a Network of Women in Agency Development and Social Justice to achieve this vision.

We recognizes the crucial aspect that often goes unnoticed in our efforts to empower women and girls worldwide: the development of agency which is the capacity of individuals to act independently and make their own choices, the key ingredient that can transform dreams into reality.

And with continued support of GlobalGiving,  our individual donors and corporate bodies, this dream will be a reality. Thank you so much! Our deep appreciation!