Roseline in conjunction with Gertrude Olowo Empowerment Initiative presents the international day of the girl child 2020. We present the theme for the year: My Voice: our equal future. For sponsorship and partnership, kindly send a whats’app message to Rose: +2348137034000 or Busola: +2348068712866. We would appreciate your support both in cash and kind. For sponsorship, you can pay into this account no: 1017378049. Zenith Bank. Gertrude Olowo Empowerment Initiative. Kindly add a description for ease of reference. Thank you. Conveners: ADEWUYI Roseline Adebimpe and Oluwabusola Adeyemo. Speakers: Damilola Taopheequat Aiyepola, Ayobamigbe Faloye and Grace Anuforo. Partners: Kasot Print, Girl Afrique, YALI Ogun and DevCent. Venue: 18, 3rd floor, Kay…
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You Only Live Once!
About a month ago, I was discussing with a close friend. We talked about a lot of issues generally then we zeroed in on issues affecting women. As we talked, we got to the subject of women who haven’t had any children. It was a really intense and touching subject for both of us because of the things we’ve seen. Now, although I am still very young, I have seen a lot of stuff that I can’t seem to wrap my mind around. Recently, I was in the midst of some people and they were talking about a woman who hadn’t given birth since she got married. This woman is…
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Men Picking Up The Gauntlet 5!!! – Dayo Adeyemi
Gender Equality is advocacy that involves both men and women. This is because men and women make up the society. You cannot establish or put a stamp on equality in society if both parties are not actively involved in this advocacy. This is why even though I champion the cause of female empowerment by helping girls and women shatter glass ceilings, break stereotypes and dismantle societal constructs, I shine my light on men who are equally doing the same for the male gender. Today, my focus is on Adeyemi Temidayo – the Executive Director and founder of The Catalyst Men Network Int’l. In this piece, he will be walking us…
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International Day of the Girl Child 2020 – 80 Percent Loading
I am excited about this!!!. International Day of the Girl Child 2020. Loading…..70 percent. Further details coming soon. Watch this space! For partnership and sponsorship, kindly send a WhatsApp message to Roseline: +2348137034000
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Melissa (A short story)
Many times, people conclude that a woman is incompetent or incapable of handling certain positions of authority even before giving her a chance. This is actually unfair. Sometimes, they use the fact that they've had female leaders who were not competent. But is judging someone on the basis of what someone else did really fair? How about we give people chances to prove themselves rather than take their chances away beforehand? Also, I think more women should support women leadership and the idea of women breaking glass ceilings and shattering all the societal constructs and stereotypes. This would go a long way in providing women with the relevant leadership experience…
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Core Areas of Girl Child and Women’s Advocacy
Breaking Stereotypes: This is my core competency and my area focus. Here, we teach young girls and inspire women to break away from age-long societal norms, constructs, and stereotypes that have limited their progress. We show them that they can do anything and be whomever they choose to be regardless of society’s dictates. We teach them to discard society’s scripts and follow their individual passion and purpose to be the best version of whom they want to be.
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It is my 2 Year Blog Anniversary!
TODAY IS MY BLOG ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!! On this day, two years ago, I started my blog (roselineadewuyi.com) and so far I have published 126 articles since I first began. I nursed the vision to start this blog while I was in the USA for the MCW leadership program. After the program, everyone needed to embark on a social impact project. My area is gender advocacy and during the course of the training, we all had to write out our plans for the fellowship year. It was a great activity for me. By then, I already had a clear picture of what I wanted to do, and putting it down felt like…
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Men Picking Up The Gauntlet 4!!!
Gender equality is something I am very passionate about. My family, friends, acquaintances, and people connected to me on the cyberspace have always been carried along in the things I do to help make this a reality. I am more or less all about educating the girl child and young women out there and empowering them with values and mindsets that would help them break stereotypes and shatter societal constructs. In my years of advocacy, people have asked me, “why are you focused on just girls, why not do something for boys too?” My answer is always the same, I don’t handle that because it’s not my strong suit. Although…
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The Beauty of an Individual is in his or her Uniqueness
Beauty standards are mostly unrealistic stereotypes upheld by culture, the media, or society. Many times, people expect you to look a certain way – be of a certain height, have a certain hip size, have a certain skin tone, and even certain shoe size. Many times, it makes people who are not those things to feel inferior or less beautiful. It also makes people think you are odd when you tell them you are not obsessed with making yourself look like the “standard.” Over time, we have come to agree that beauty is highly subjective. We even say things like Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This…
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Amazons – Chidinma Ibemere
Education has a major role to play in curbing gender inequality. This is because when educators start at a young age to instill and promote gender equality, it’s easier for the children and teens to grow with it and become adults who see gender equality as a norm. This creates a balanced world and also makes advocacy much easier because the crop of young adults being sent into the society has a good understanding of what gender equality is really about. In light of this, we will be interviewing Chidinma Ibemere, a young Gender Equality Advocate who is also a Biology teacher at Federal Government College Enugu. In this interview,…
