Gender Equality Nigeria Project #33654

Educate, Equip and Empower 230 Girls and Women

by Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative

Educate, Equip and Empower 230 Girls and Women

Project Report | Sep 10, 2018
September 2018 Report

By Safiya Ibn Garba | Project Leader

Every year 1 January is a sad day for the Achakwus because the death of the breadwinner and father of 15-year-old Melody Joseph. Her hope of becoming a doctor looked like a difficult task to achieve. Melody is the fourth of seven siblings; she is from Benue State and was a student of Government Girls Secondary School Television Kaduna. Things became difficult for her mother after her father’s death and it seemed like Melody’s dream of completing her secondary school education was never going to materialize. That is, until EWEI visited her school to select beneficiaries to be a part of the Educational Subsidy Programme and due to her excellent performance in the assessment test and academic performance, she was selected.

Melody says the day she was informed that she was selected, it that was the happiest day of her life and her words were, “Do not let anyone make you feel inferior. Remember that God loves you and he is there to help you in any situation.” Melody’s favorite quote is “Dream it ; believe it and you can become it. If you have light, let others light their candles.”

Melody is one of the young girls your donations have helped support.

The Educate, Equip & Empower (EEE) project is designed to tackle poverty; retention, enrollment and completion of girl child education; enable networking and mentoring between female students and women professionals around the world and provide access to opportunities for women and girls in northern Nigeria.

The project activities include:

Subsidising the education of ten girls in public schools at the post-basic education level over a period of two years
Financially supporting 120 indigent women residing in informal settlements or low-income communities and
Engaging 100 adult females in tertiary institutions by providing a digital platform for mentoring and knowledge sharing.

These three major objectives are being delivered through three EWEI projects known as:

Please read attached document for full report on the progress of this project.

Thank you for your generous support.

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EWEIGlobalGiving_EEE_Project_Report_September_2018.pdf (PDF)

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