GIRLEMPOWERED: StretchCentre Sets Out To Empower 900 Girls In Isheri-Osun Lagos Come May 31ST
Omotola Fawunmi, a young development
worker, an HACEY Girl Child Ambassador and a managing partner at
STRETCH Consulting, has decided to take her love and advocacy campaign
for the Empowerment of the girl child to a new level. She’d be
celebrating her next birthday with 900 girls between the ages of 13 and 25 in Isheri Oshun neighbourhood, a low income suburb in Lagos State.
According to Omotola, there seems to be a
gap and a form of emptiness that accompany young people home after
attending motivational seminars where brilliant talks are delivered.
According to her, and from her own personal experience, such talks
eventually only get them excited without any definite actionable steps
or follow up programs.
Miss Fawunmi thinks that exciting young
people alone won’t bring about the desired result and transformation
that they truly need. She strongly feels that there should be room for
direct community based mentorship and an opportunity to connect to the
peculiar needs of young people after they must have attended seminars
laced with many discussions and speeches.
To this end, Omotola and her host of
other female friends who are doing exceptionally well in their areas of
specialization will be educating these 900 girls on why they must keep
their shoulders high with a healthy dose of self Confidence garnished
with good Character and highly developed competence. They will be
sharing their personal experiences on what it entails to be confident as
a young lady. And all that it takes to uphold good character and
competence irrespective of the challenges faced as they advance in
years.
Omotola strongly feels that talk is cheap and that the participants’ confidence
can be better raised by also providing them with free girly materials
like perfumes, dresses, shoes, make-up boxes, belts, novels or
inspirational books that can add value to all the ladies in attendance.
To Omotola, the managing partner at Stretch Consulting, she explained
that giving the ladies few fishes won’t hurt just as they learn how to
fish alongside.
As a community based and community led
initiative, Omotola leveraging on her network of development partners,
friends and associates, seeks to ensure the girls are empowered in
practical and impactful ways. A bulk of the neatly used and usable girly
materials that will occupy the she-boxes are being collected from
Omotola’s vast network of female friends and colleagues. Other side
attraction at the event which will kick off by 10am on the 31st of May 2014 in Isheri Osun Community School, Lagos include; a movie, group discussions, Sex Straight Talk and institution of a mentoring program for the 900 girls at the event.
For support, contributions and further details, please contact STRETCHCENTER via projectstretch@gmail.com or tweet at @StretchCenter on Twitter. Better still you can call 08110000551, 08188860873.
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