By Chinedu Eze
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Education is a key tool in fighting gender inequality – But what kind of education? Rote learning? Or Stuffing books? Learning to read and write is just the basic component of the functional education needed to to re-position the girl-child. Beyond literacy, educating girls to rise above societal set-backs should include the following components. Teach […]
You can’t go to school anymore! You have to sit at home and nurse your baby. That’s the life you chose! You go head bowed in shame because you really deserved it. You know that you have always been stupid and never made the right decisions. You know you can never be composed as your […]
During the screening exercise for the 2019 Enugu and Ibadan David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for indigent girls, one thing was common among most of the participants – asides brilliance – Poverty. Girl after girl, the screening team could see homes without proper toilets and baths, cramped living space, poor lighting and so on. Girls try […]
Her name is Joy but there was nothing joyful about her situation. At the dawn of each new day her burden became bigger than the previous day. As her pregnancy grew daily so did her predicament. She was in the third trimester of her pregnancy and her life seemed to be spiraling out of control. […]
By Paschaline Chukwuka
