By Busayo Obisakin | Executive Director
In our continued effort to eradicate violence against women and girls, Women Inspiration Development Center marked 2023 International Women’s Day by connecting the female teachers to World pulse so that they can be part of digital space to access information keep their students informed and be the voices of the voiceless in their school on Violence against women and girls.
The aims of the program was to:
· To raise awareness of women's rights on gender equality
· To provide a platform for women to connect to digital space (Worldpulse)
· To learn how to tell and share their stories online and offline
· To inspire and motivate the women
Based on the Trainathon of World Pulse, I led the female teachers on Online Story Telling training. The participants was first led to download the World Pulse app, they joined World pulse and then went ahead with the storytelling training. There was a serious challenge of Internet as the network kept on fluctuating and many of the participants could not finish the training.
The joy of it however was that many of the participants was able to join World pulse and they continue with the trainings as they become members. Five of the participants have successfully finished their training on story telling at World pulse trainathon and they have gotten their certificates. Others are still on their training because we have a WhatsApp group for the participants to continue to monitor their progress and how they are thriving at World pulse.
We learnt an important lesson through this program which is, in the next training like this we will definitely go and do it in a café where there will be stable network and laptops made available for the participants.
Other activities to commensurate the day were talks on communication skills, self-care, see something say something, break the silence around violence against women and girls in your schools and communities.
The interactive section was based on sexual violence in school and domestic violence in our community The teachers revealed a lot of sexual violence occurrences in their schools among female students and male teachers. They mentioned "poverty” as the major contributor. Many of the male teacher attract the young girls with small amount of money because most of the girls are from very poor homes where they are not well catered for at all. Our interaction with these teachers opened our eyes to more ways we can go about doing our work in eradicating violence against women and girls in the community. At the end of the program, the newly passed law on gender based violence, “Violence Against Person’s Act was distributed to the teachers to take to their schools for sensitizations and certificate of attendance to the program was also given to them.
It was indeed a wonderful way of celebrating the day!
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