Empowering 250 Young Women in Nigeria

Women inspiration Development center at the end of each year always extend Love to the women we are working with by giving them house hold utensils gifts and food items for the to have a wonderful celebration of Xmas and the New Year. WIDC move from villages to villages to do this every year.

Though this year giving of gifts was in a low key due to the fact that the organization has been struggling for fund for the past 2 years to do our programs but we still felt that this must be done no matter how small. Our women always look forward to the time they will receive the end of the year gift and gift for best performance during their activities in the year.

There are gift for women with largest savings, women with the best thriving business and the best in the attendance of their support groups. All these helps our women to strive to do better in the coming year.

Most Nigerian girls have access to limited resources to support their dreams because of their inability to use computer and have access internet. This year WIDC made it part of our year projects to organize 6 weeks media training for 35 girls.

This project was organized for girls that are just coming out of high school after their final examination. WIDC first took these girls through our 4-day Agency-Based Empowerment workshop where the girls were able to be rooted in personal empowerment and spiritual consciousness.

The 4-day empowerment model, developed by the U.S.-based Empowerment Institute, teaches participants to shift their patterns of thinking from pathology to vision and equips them with tools to develop belief in themselves and their own agency, to set goals, and to create the support systems that will enable them to reach those goals.

It was after this empowerment workshop that the girls were divided into four groups for the media training because we could only provide 4 Laptops for the training. The media training becomes necessary because for these girls to reach the goals they have set for themselves during the workshop, they need to have access to resources that could help them to achieve these goals. Therefore, learning how to use computer which they were all handling for the first time becomes germane. Also access to internet and communities of women and girls like World Pulse becomes important for these girls to actually create the lives they want for themselves.

Within two weeks of our training 9 of these girls have created emails for themselves and they have joined world pulse communities. At the end of the eight  weeks training, 38 young girls was able to create emails for themselves, joined the social media, started posting stories on social medias. 11 of these girls have started accessing vocational training online. We are hoping to target 100 girls in our next training and we are hoping to get more laptops for the training.