Educate, Equip and Empower 230 Girls and Women

EWEI Online, our online community for horizontal learning, exchange and mentorship, has in the last quarter, maintained activities online. 

In the month of March 2021, we celebrated Exceptional Women in Diverse Fields under the following sub themes: 

• African women who fought for freedom in the past
• Women who brought about change
• Women who are presently excelling in their fields
• Young ladies excelling in different fields.

In April 2021, we discussed SDG 5 - Gender Equality under the following sub topics:

• Definition of gender terms and concept
• Different forms of inequality
• Indicators/target of the SDG 5- Leading countries in gender equality
• What can you do?

In May 2021, we discussed SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth under the following sub topics:

• Statistics and background, data of women in gainful employment
• Financial independence, women empowerment, advantages of financial independence
• Target of the SDG 8, statistics of leading countries who have more working women
• What can you do?

We further celebrated women in leadership by inviting an Academy leader (Diana Osagie) to speak to 56 ladies at our January Special Online Event tagged “Developing Resilience and Growing from Setbacks for Women Leaders”

In February, we discussed Women and Advocacy for Change. We went ahead to further discuss the following:

• What is Advocacy/Activism?
• Identifying the problems (Feminist Coalition as case study)
• Bringing about change/forming a network of women advocates
• Challenges in Advocacy and how to overcome them.

• EWEIGG_EEE_Mar_2021_May_2021_Report.pdf (PDF)