Roseline in conjunction with Gertrude Olowo Empowerment Initiative Presents TikTok Competition to mark International Day of the Girl Child. Theme: Step Outside the Gender Box: Learning Free From Stereotypes. Join the challenge to Unlearn Gender in Schools! How to join: • Record or make a video with a duration between 1 to 3 minutes. • Highlight or react to a common statement, behavior, habit, or activity that discriminates against girls in schools and share an alternative or solution to it. • Submit your videos on Tiktok, Instagram, or via email. Submission Channels: Participants can choose to submit their videos through any of the mediums that is convenient for them. •…
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International Day of the Girl Child 2021 – 90 Percent Loading
Last year, we took a bold step forward in a bid to ensuring that young girls understand the potency of wielding their voice for a sustainable and gender-equal future. We made them realize that they should never stifle or smother their voices even when others tell them to cower in silence and hide their faces in shame. We made them realize that their words are powerful and needed for change and that when they speak, their words reverberate throughout the entire universe sending ripples across the galaxies. We urged them to speak up and use their voice. We urged them to let the sound of their vocal cords reverberate across…
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International Day of the Girl Child 2021 – 80 Percent Loading
Roseline in conjunction with Gertrude Olowo Empowerment Initiative presents International Day of the Girl Child 2021 For partnership and sponsorship, kindly send a Whatsapp message to Rose:+2348137034000 or Busola:+2348068712866 #IDG #IDG2021 #DayOfTheGirl #DayOfTheGirlChild #InternationalDayOfTheGirl #InternationalDayOfTheGirl2021
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Ladies In School (LIS) – Zaynab Bakare
I love hearing stories about ladies smashing stereotypes in career and leadership. It is refreshing and inspiring to read about and it spurs other women to aspire to more. As much as I love reading about brilliant successful women who are currently making waves in the society, I believe that becoming a daring female leader is not something that just happens at the peak of your career. It is something you start building from an early age. Then, in the university, what you have learned all through childhood and teenagerhood is tested and refined. By the time you graduate, you are more equipped to face the world. Ladies in school…
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Men Picking Up The Gauntlet 8!!! – Solomon O. Ayodele
Gender advocacy is an all-encompassing push for a change in the narrative. It seeks to liberate men and women from the shackles of the unrealistic expectations and stereotypes that patriarchy expects them to live up to. Girl child advocacy, particularly the area of leadership and shattering glass ceilings, is a course that I am passionate about because I am female and most of my advocacy stems from and is fueled by personal experiences. That I advocate for these areas doesn’t mean that gender advocacy is not all-encompassing. Other people are passionate about other aspects of advocacy and from time to time, I like to shine the spotlight on them. Boy…
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Difficult Conversations no longer becoming hush-hush!
I am grateful that we live in an era where people are no longer hush-hush about difficult conversations anymore. The things that were once considered taboos or unsafe are the things freely talked about now. I am glad because having these difficult conversations or talking about these topics make women more self-aware. It also makes it easier for women to make more informed decisions. Long ago, many women stumbled into motherhood, marriage, and made many decisions out of pressure and societal expectations. I can almost say that most of the women of old didn’t do these things or make those decisions because they were prepared to. They found themselves walking…
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Just me, not a Tomboy!
I have been called a tomboy in the past because of the way I do certain things. To some people, I walk like a boy, dress like a boy, and cut my hair like a boy. While there are people who deliberately choose to be tomboys, it has never crossed my mind to behave like a boy. But then, in our society, once you deviate from the typical definition of femininity, the boxed roles, and expectations, you are seen as a tomboy. Interestingly, many things I do are just things I want to do. Some of them come to me naturally like the way I walk, for example. I walk…
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It is my 3 Year Blog Anniversary!
It is my third blog anniversary, and I really feel my emotions cringing under an overwhelming weight of mixed feelings. One, I am exhilarated that I have stayed true to my vision despite the spate of challenges that have beset my quest over the years. The courage has not been totally unwavering, the resolve has not been purely untested, but staying the course, despite the many turbulent waves that have rocked the boat of my blog, has always kept me afloat, has always been the driving force behind my constant need to surge forward, to move ahead, to never look back, and to never back down. Two, there are times…
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Gender and Toys
My parents bought the same toys for my brother and me. They didn’t raise us to think that some toys were feminine, and others were masculine. They just bought different toys and we played with them. Maybe it’s because we are twins or because, as children, it was common to always want what the other person had. Whatever their reason was, I can say that buying similar toys for us helped shape my perspective. It made me see toys as gender neutral. If I wanted a helicopter, my mum got it. If my brother wanted a stuffed rabbit, it was his. But many people didn’t experience life as I did.…
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International Day of Friendship : Sisterhood
Growing up, I didn’t have many female friends. I didn’t really understand what it meant to have friends with whom you bonded so closely like sisters. For years, I couldn’t relate when girls were so close and called each other best friends. Today, I am grateful that I get to experience that. When I look at how amazing and strong the female friendship bond is, I wonder why it took so long for me to have this. My female friends have redefined friendship for me in so many ways. First, they have been so sacrificial and loving. They have gone out of their way to make things easier for me.…
