Ten girls who live in Enugu entered the New Year, with no hint on what would happen to them by September. They all had two things in common – intelligence and poor families. They went about their normal lives, acutely aware of their families’ needs, their challenges and supposedly bleak futures. Little did they know […]
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 […]
By Chinedu Eze
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“You can’t go to school anymore! You have to sit at home and nurse your baby. That’s the life you chose!” Your head is bowed in shame because you had this coming. You know that you have always been stupid and never made the right decisions, this was just one out of many. You know […]
During the screening exercise for the 2019 Enugu and Ibadan David Oyelowo Leadership Scholarship for indigent girls, one thing that was common among most of the participants aside from brilliance was poverty. Girl after girl, the screening team could see homes without proper toilets and baths, cramped living space, poor lighting and everything that shouldn’t […]
By Paschaline Chukwuka
They call her Joy but there was nothing joyful about her situation. At the dawn of each new day, her burden became bigger than it was twenty hours ago. As her baby bump grew to the admiration of friends and family, something died inside her. This wasn’t a result of being too young or naive, […]
