Educate, Equip and Empower 230 Girls and Women

EDUCATE, EQUIP AND EMPOWER 230 WOMEN AND GIRLS

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 also provide access to opportunities for women and girls in Nigeria.

December 2021 – February 2022 Update

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

In December 2021, we engaged in discussions around Gender Based Violence, with the theme; End Violence Against Women Now. Our major subthemes were as follows:

• Conceptualising violence against women under the following areas; definition of violence against women, understanding gender-based violence and other types of violence against women.
• Violence against women in educational and religious institutions and how to mitigate them.
• Violence against women in political institutions, workspace violence and how to mitigate them.
• Violence against women entrepreneurs/freelancers, violence against women in the family and methods of mitigation.

In January 2022, we had interactive discussions around Education.Sub themes covered were:

• Reviving the reading culture through tips on improving reading habits, book suggestions and developing reading culture among members.
• Gender gap in education with focus on reasons for this gender gap and solutions.
• The new wave of digital learning, benefits, tools and success stories of young women benefitting from digital learning
• Celebrating young women in education by sharing their success stories

In February 2022, our discussion was on Cancer Awareness. The following sub-topics were covered:

• Understanding cancer and debunking cancer related myths
• Highlighting and discussing the different types of cancer
• Designing actions that can be taken against cancer through preventive measures, care and protection of cancer patients
• Celebrating women cancer survivor

 In this quarter, we also had fun facts and shared videos to help members visually understand and engage in key topics we discussed.

CHALLENGES

The major challenge is low engagement by members on the page. In addition, we are still yet to reach our target number of memberships on the page (300 members).

MITIGATION

To address the challenge of low engagement, we continued sharing educational resources and stories to engage the EWEI Online members, shared useful Do It Yourself (DIY) for online tools, alongside funding opportunities. We also started sharing videos to promote interactivity among members. To address the challenge of low membership, we shared the link to the page during EWEI events and encourage women and girls we interact with to become members.

NEXT STEPS

Moving forward, we will continue to implement the cross-posting methods. That is, we will regularly post information regarding EWEI Online on all EWEI's social media platforms encouraging ladies to join the page, engage in polls, post riddles, share videos, fun facts and ask questions to promote interactivity.

We will also organise Facebook live events to discuss with members on trending issues that affect every day social and professional life,and also,get their opinions on topics they will want to engage with more on the platform.

• EWEI-GG EEE December 2021- February 2022 Report (PDF)