Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization has announced the award of seed grants of US$5,000 each to 20 young leaders in 15 countries around the world. The grant will support a six-month project aimed at advancing girls’ and women’s health, rights and well-being in their communities, HealthJourno has gathered.
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Olaoluwa Adagun is the founder of the Girls Pride Circle, an initiative which aims to advocate for girls’ right and empowerment. Her project tiled, “ Safe Kicks Initiative: Adolescent Girls Against Sexual Violence”, will work on the education and empowerment of 250 adolescent girls as well as the mobilization of key members of the community to adopt a Community Action Plan. Olaoluwa hopes that the project will prevent sexual violence against adolescent girls in Alimosho Local Government by 2017.
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, a medical student at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria got the grant to fund a project aimed at improving services and increasing access of students to the Youth Friendly Centre of the University of Port Harcourt. Boris will work on building the capacity of 500 students of the institution on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and contraceptives choice through digital media campaigns and other targeted efforts.
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Isaac Ejakhegbe would be working on a project tagged “My Body, My Right”, to be focused on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practiced among many groups in Nigeria. This project aims to fill gaps left by the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act (VAPP) of 2015 through advocacy, community mobilization, and digital media efforts. The goals are to achieve widespread awareness of VAPP throughout Nigeria and to ensure its enforcement in incidents of FGM in Esan West, Edo State, Nigeria. Isaac holds a Bachelor of Science in Medical Physiology from the University of Benin and a Masters of Science degree in Applied Health Social Science from the school of public health, University of Ghana. With over five years of experience working in health promotion; maternal and child health care provision, and family planning, Isaac currently volunteers as a program officer at the Women Health and Action Research Centre and also works as the Assistant Managing Editor at the African Journal of Reproductive Health.
The grants are funded by Johnson & Johnson, a founding partner of the Women Deliver Young Leaders Program and long supporter of youth advocacy
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