Girl-mother Empowerment program

The role of this project “Girl-Mother empowerment programme” is making a lot of inroads now considering the very much that a lot of community visitations has been conducted in various communities with relevant messages “Girls must be Girls and Not mothers”. These messages were well embraced by stakeholders of these communities. Owing to the fact that they themselves are ready to change their attitude towards girls. Though, it was a bottleneck for them to accept change. This has been an ancient tradition that the best place for girls is in the kitchen and early and forceful marriages. During our engagement with these communities the message of accessing education and training, for these girl-mothers were well appreciated and stakeholders in the various communities consider it key as a means to stop these girls from prostitution, HIV-AIDS, poverty, etc. Since there is an alarming reports about the current rise of HIV/AIDS in the country more especially the northern region our focus on this project. The communities were gladly in supports of our stance and efforts. The strategy employed by the organisation really pays off as many girl-mothers who were victims of early and forceful marriages, teenage pregnancy are planning to return back to school base on available support. Though the project has identified a lot of these girl-mothers but still lack the required support to help these victims to go back to school. Moreover, our usual radio discussion programme which have gain a lot of momentum and has increased a lot of awareness among these sets of girls. The many feedbacks received during and after the programme, speaks a lot and also it create a platform for many stakeholders to make contributions. The idea of empowering these girl-mothers were well greeted during the phoning programme, it really shows some huge concerns and it was a burden to many who have these girl-children at heart. In actual sense, they are pleading for more supports to these girls, which could help them gain a life changing skills and make them independent. Though, this project is yet to attract the kind of support it should get, considering the fact that it is addressing a huge concerns about girls, this has really slow down its operations, because the support is not available to accomplish it set demands. The few donors to this project are well appreciated. But this project needs the required support to help the already identified Girl-Mothers. We cannot achieve this alone without your support. Based on this, we are calling on Donors, GlobalGiving and friends to help us achieve this together.