This Saturday, our COVID-19 Response Project for Women begins!🦸♀️🦹♀️ We would be making entrepreneurs out of women in low income communities, starting with a state in southwest Nigeria. Women would be divided into 2 groups. One group will be trained in the making of hair oils and liquid soaps and then provided with resources to […]
If we look closely at what’s happening in our world, in the media and among young people, the rape culture is promoted. You hear it in lyrics, you see it in ads, you hear it in conversations…it seems normal. It’s high time we started unlearning and relearning. Our advocate from Nigeria thinks “SHE deserves honor […]
There has been an uproar on social media about the case of a young Nigerian girl who was raped and brutally murdered after the rape. The media is buzzing, and everyone is talking about boys being trained to become men who won’t rape. Many agencies, NGOs, organizations, individuals are putting out articles, designs, campaigns that […]
This week on “The First Women” is Dr Elizabeth Blackwell. Cheers to women who broke glass ceilings and thus paved way for upcoming generations of girls to dream big and achieve them. Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman on the Medical Register of the General Medical Council.She pioneered in promoting education for women in medicine. […]
Women are in the best position to decide what methods, policies, measures suit women….. and ofcos seeing that they were once girls, they would be able to develop policies that would attend to the specific needs of girls. More education for girls would give us higher chances of having women in certain places…. thus ensuring […]
This week, we launch our “The first women” series…. in honour of women who broke glass ceilings 💪 Isabel Peron is the world’s first woman president. She was the vice president of Argentina while her husband was the President and was sworn in as President as soon as her husband died. Isabel maintained the social […]
World Bank in 2017 reported that Nigeria loses 7. 6 billion dollars every year in earnings and productivity because of child marriage! UNICEF reported that the Northern part of Nigeria has the highest number of child brides with 68% of females getting married before they clock 18…. Have you ever wondered why the North has […]
Gender Equality cannot be achieved if half of the population is denied education. An illiterate woman cannot access opportunities if she isn’t qualified for them. If quality education is accessed by all, we would be closer to gender equality.. SHE would be able to make decisions that would cater to HER sexual and reproductive rights. […]
The First Phase (Training Phase) of our Annual Girls Empowerment Series for 2020 ended in excellence! We got some encouraging feedbacks…The girls were excited about the 1st Phase of the Girls Empowerment Series (Training Phase). Many of them came with certain expectations that we beat, many of their expectations were met and even exceeded. Six […]
Girls with dreams become women with vision! Hurray! Our Annual Girls Empowerment Series for this year has commenced. This is one of our own ways of providing the resources that girls need to build dreams and achieve visions. Arrivals have started and we look forward to a successful 3-month impact and empowerment. We would be […]
The Graciella Initiative 