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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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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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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Fathers who expect a Medal for doing the bare minimum for their Kids.
It bothers me that we have turned parenting into mothering, that is, into a one-woman affair. We have made it look like the emotional and personal needs of children should only be met by their mothers. This is so wrong and it encourages men to be absent and unavailable for their children. Sadly, many women who didn’t have present fathers have gotten so used to this one-sided type of parenting that they see it as normal. Hence, you see them being overly grateful/gushing about every little thing their husbands do for their children. What do I mean? In a group I belong to, someone threw a question to the floor…
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International Boy’s Day
Today is the International Day of the boy and this year’s theme is focused on Empowering, guiding, and providing boys role models for a peaceful world. Over the years, it seemed like more people focused on training girls to be perfect while boys were left to meander through life on their own. As a result, so many men had to learn a lot of things the hard way. Many of them grew up broken and didn’t have anyone to turn to or ask questions. For decades, men were even told not to cry because it was unmanly. So, they bottled up their insecurities and fears. As years progressed, we have…
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Birthday Reflections 2020
AND SO THE CLOCK STRIKES A NEW YEAR! Well, the earth has gone around the sun for a whole year since I last marked my birth. Here I am again, a year older. I decided to mark this year in an unusual matter. I want to openly reflect on how the past year has been for me. The past year has been filled to the brim with lots of ups and downs. There were good times and not-so-good times. Compared to previous years, I have been molded than I could ever account for this last year. I am grateful for the progress I have made. I am remorseful for the…
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World Poetry Day – Celebrating Womanhood
Give me a voice, one that I can call mine Let me bring out my colours from in deep within my mind like a flowering flower springing new petals. I only ask for a choice to be who I am without the tethers of gender hurting around my tender neck. Give me a life, a chance, to crave for and seek the cradle of wisdom like the river seeking the sea. I want to learn to fight without a hand tied behind my back with the chains of culture, what should change that stayed constant. For I am a light, hidden by the curtains of doubt. Yet, none can douse…
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International Women’s Day 2020- Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights for an Equal Future
Every year, March 8 marks the International Women’s Day. A day set aside by the United Nations to celebrate women and advocate women’s rights and gender equality. This year’s theme is Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights for an equal future. This year we are choosing to be that generation that finally realized or achieves gender equality by giving women their due diligence. We finally recognize that women’s rights are also human rights and therefore matter equally. To be able to think this way, we have to truly understand what gender equality is. Gender equality is not sameness in biology or physiology. (This is the fallacious assertion that some people point…
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International Women’s Day Event 2020
The international women’s day which comes up on the 8th of March every year was commemorated today 5th of March 2020 with a program at Abadina College, UI. The program was tagged, “Generation equality: realizing women’s right for an equal future.” The program was majorly geared towards enlightening and broadening the scope of understanding of Secondary school students as regards gender equality and also bringing it into reality. The program was facilitated by two distinguished people; Deborah Adeojo and Daniel Akinyemi, who took their time to painstakingly teach the students what they need to know about gender equality. The facilitators were also able to unteach and debunk some erroneous beliefs…
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International Women’s Day 2020 Loading 80 Percent
March 8 is International Women’s Day. We will be using the opportunity to engage the students of Abadina College, Ibadan on the theme of Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights for an equal future. This is also another opportunity to challenge stereotypes, call for inclusion, amplify women’s voices and to celebrate women. We shall be celebrating all women living beyond limitations, holding up, making an impact, influencing the world, leading positively, motivating the world, transforming lives, standing tall, aiming high, breaking stereotypes, shattering glass ceilings, breaking through concrete walls, striding on sticky floors and escaping career labyrinths. Host: Roseline Adebimpe Adewuyi Speakers: Daniel Akinyemi and Deborah Adeojo Coordinators: Rebecca Bolatito-John and…
