Group Provides Vocational Empowerment Training For Girls In Anambra
RippleAfrica Trust Foundation (RATF), a non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to ending gender-based violence against women and children, has sensitized and empowered girls in Nnewi, Anambra State, during the commemoration of the 2023 International Day of the Girl Child.
The interactive session, according to Mr. Andrew Ebi Sikpi, Head of Media and Publicity, who represented the founder of RippleAfrica Trust Foundation, Bar. Ikechukwu Ibeto was aimed at giving voice to voiceless girls in rural areas, allowing them to discuss their challenges, with a view to proffering solutions to these challenges.
This initiative, he explained, was in a bid to complement government efforts to ensure that the girl child attains her full potential and is in line with RATF’s mandate of ensuring inclusiveness and gender parity in Nigeria.
He noted that the Foundation had engaged a cross-section of girls from different schools as well as those who are out of school, as they were also provided with communication materials, food, and clothing and engaged in conversations concerning their participation, development, survival, and protection rights.
He further assured that the challenges of these girls would be collated and tabled before major stakeholders on modalities to be adopted towards ensuring their holistic development.
He reiterated the organization’s commitment to providing skill acquisition programmes, medical outreach, social justice, and empowerment schemes to the victims of gender-based violence.
He added that the Foundation had also provided scholarships for the downtrodden, quality healthcare, vocational and empowerment training as well as a safe environment for them to co-exist.
In a similar development, the First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, during the National Girls Interactive Session with Policy and Decision Makers to commemorate the 2023 International Day of the Girl Child, organized by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs in collaboration with RippleAfrica Trust Foundation and other partners in Abuja, noted that the girl-child must be protected from all forms of violence with a safe and inclusive environment provided for them to thrive.
Oluremi Tinubu pointed out that education is a key weapon that must be used to ensure that every girl-child is free from discrimination and intimidation.
In the same vein, Minister of Women Affairs, Barr. Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye noted that the Federal Government was irrevocably committed to ensuring that harmful and discriminatory practices against the girl-child were totally eliminated.
The 2023 International Day of the Girl Child with the theme, “Invest in Girls’ Rights: Our Leadership & Our Well-being, the event had in attendance top policy and decision makers.
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