Stories & News
from the Field
Period: Experiences surrounding the Misconception, Myth and Stigma for Girls
The way menstruation is perceived and handled infringes on a girl’s right to education, dignity, freedom, sanitation, and health. I am glad that today I know better,
Improving the Girl Child Education and Menstrual Hygiene by Providing Free Sanitary Pads in Secondary Schools
We have partnered with Union Bank’s alpher Woman to keep 200 young girls in school by making sure they have access to sanitary products, accurate information regarding their own menstrual health.
A Story to End 2020
A story of the resilience of a single mother in the most marginalised community in Nigeria, in the hardest year in history
Her first business, 12 years after her husband passed
February 12, 2021 will make it exactly 12 years since Toyin Olurebi’s husband passed. But she still speaks of him like he was in the other room separated from us by the curtain hanging from the door.
What Next? #EndSARS
The next phase is to get back to work: to build systems and strengthen our communities, To start from the grassroots and educate children and young people with the skills and knowledge to ask hard questions and make their own decisions.
How Mrs Ogunseye brought her business back!
By her ingenuity & industriousness, her family is stable again with food on the table - morning, afternoon and night.