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  • How WhatsApp provides financial lifelines to Nigerian women

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    January 09, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Groups of women in Nigeria are forming rotating savings programs on WhatsApp because formal banking is often inaccessible. Essentially operating like an informal credit union, each member of the group gives an equal amount to a chosen admin, and a payout is given to a different member every month based on need.

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  • The safe space for Nigerian girls facing period poverty

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    July 11, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    Brencare Foundation’s Safe Space Project meets once a week within local schools to provide menstrual health, hygiene, sexual and gender-based violence education to girls in need. So far, the Foundation has reached about 5,000 women and girls across several communities with its education efforts.

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  • Boot camps of hope for Nigerian kids in neglected communities

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    July 05, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Since starting up in Nigeria in 2018, the Kayode Alabi Leadership and Career Initiative, has reached about 6400 rural teenagers through their Skill2Rural bootcamp project. The multi-day bootcamp rotates between a selected school, internally displaced persons camp, or a community center. Participants have co-created about 70 prototypes to minimize issues related to poverty and unemployment within their communities.

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  • A second chance at education for teen mums in Cross River

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    November 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sankwala, Cross River

    The Campus Babe Initiative helps girls in Nigeria who are not attending school because of teen pregnancy get back in school. The initiative provides financial support, school materials, and information. It also holds informational workshops to help prevent teen pregnancies.

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  • How One Nigerian State Overcame Vaccine Hesitancy and Eradicated Polio

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    June 24, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    Across Cross River, the government is partnering with traditional leaders, both chiefs and Muslim clerics, to build communication, trust, and acceptance of its polio vaccine program in local communities. The strategy has contributed to the fact that 900,000 children have received both sets of the vaccine and the state remains polio free.

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  • Young Nigerians are tackling the stigma of mental health

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    May 10, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    Having seen first-hand the impact of colonial-era laws and lack of access to professional help on her struggle with depression, Elizabeth Ita founded the non-profit Stilt NG. Since 2019, it has trained 25 young volunteers familiar with mental health struggles themselves to create awareness on mental illness, reduce stigma, and encourage help-seeking behavior for other youth in the community.

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