As a child, I had many people I wanted to become exactly like. At first, it was the undergraduate lady who lived in the same compound as us.

"The funds and support gave me rest of mind and allowed me to breathe again. I was able to save and cater for my family's needs without the load of thousands of naira of interest payments that weigh on my shoulders alone."

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,

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 of the resilience of a single mother in the most marginalised community in Nigeria, in the hardest year in history

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.

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.

By her ingenuity & industriousness, her family is stable again with food on the table - morning, afternoon and night.