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Organization	Empowering Women for Excellence Initiative
Region	Nigeria
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ProjectLeader	Safiya Ibn Garba

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The project will tackle issues of poverty, girl child education, networking and access to opportunities. This project targets girls and women of four different profiles in Kaduna in northern Nigeria. Through the project, we aim to subsidize the education of ten girls in public secondary schoosl over two years, train and mentor 120 indigent rural women (mostly widows and heads of households) and engage 100 adult females in two tertiary institutions and empower 2 female artists.

Challenge

Rural Kaduna has high incidence of poverty, which affects children education, hygiene, nutrition and health. Girls/women are most affected, as they become breadwinners with the dereliction of their husbands/fathers. Without income skills, most females are at the mercy of vices. Survey suggests 6 of 10 girls quit school due to poverty. Females have difficulty accessing gender- empowerment information, absence of online mentoring forums and lack of exposure harness skills to promote gender causes

Long-Term Impact

Ten girls will complete their secondary school education, giving them a fighting chance to further their education. The capacity of 120 indigent women would have been built, their level of poverty reduced with an improved economic status. 100 female adults from two tertiary institutions empowered, connected and engaged in capacity building and exchange.