Empowering 250 Young Women in Nigeria

Violence against women is a pervasive problem in Nigerian culture, and traditional rulers and elders set the culture. That’s why we decided to reach out to these groups to see what could be done. Before the conversation, we visited the communities and told them about the partnership we wanted to establish, asking if they were willing and ready for this kind of relationship. We gave them a letter on the first visit, and on the second visit we discussed the project modality and goals of our efforts. After these visits, the community head organized the stakeholder meeting.

I led the WIDC team of ten to two towns, where we met with the monarchs, traditional chiefs, traditional women leaders, and other stakeholders so that we could add their voices to the chorus of those condemning violence against women. We first met with 25 representatives in each of these communities and later with larger groups of about 90 people. Below is a story award I received on this activities at World Pulse

https://www.worldpulse.org/story/how-i-convinced-a-king-to-decry-domestic-violence-23183\

Links:

• https://theiconsorg.blogspot.com/2022/05/osun-monarch-moves-to-forestall.html
• https://www.worldpulse.org/story/how-i-convinced-a-king-to-decry-domestic-violence-23183\

Women Inspiration Development Center (WIDC) recruited 214 Girls during the Good Deed Day (GDD 22) as Confident Girls Ambassadors who will be doing good by raising their voices against Gender Based Violence in Nigeria as activist in their institution and communities. Good Deed Day is a global movement of people who are dedicated to doing good. Since 2007, millions of people and thousands of organizations from 108 countries unite together annually to volunteer and #DoGood.

Women Inspiration Development Center joined this movement last year when we started our Initiative, “Confident Girls” to recruit volunteers as Confident Girl Ambassadors. This year in Osun State, eleven organizations came together to encourage, orientate and recruited 396 students of Osun State University as volunteers to do good.

This is a time that our country Nigeria is going through a turbulent time of insecurity which as a result of bad leadership and bad example for youth. Most of our youth because they also want to be rich quickly like our politician have turn to kidnappers, ritualist, armed robbers and the worst of it all terrorist and bandit.

Therefore, the impact of this program will be seeing as our youth are changing their orientation to do good. At the end of the program, 378 students were recruited by the 11 organizations out of which our organization, Women Inspiration Development Center recruited 214 girls out of the 378 students who are ready to be activist in their institution and communities to assist survivors of Gender Based Violence.