Worried by the endemic cases of rape and other gender-based violence against women in the country, a non- governmental organisation, Alheri Center for Women and Child Care Development (ACWCCD) organised training for secondary school female students of Government Science Secondary School, Jalingo in Taraba State on how to curb violence against women.
The training which was held to commemorate the International Day for the girl child with the team ‘ my voice our equal future, engaged the young women on incidences of gender-based violence and how they could be addressed.
The Executive Director, ACWCCD, Eglah Ibrahim said the training was aimed at building their capacity to be able to fight against sexual and gender-based violence in the schools and also ensure that they to take leadership positions.
“So today we are training them about the context of the problem to enable them to know how they can participate and address the gender-based violence in the school and how to make their voices heard and stop violence around them,” Ibrahim said.
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One of the Facilitators, Kerkebe Ibrahim said the objective of the project was to promote leadership among young girls and to strengthen their resilience against violence, as well as support changes in policies.
“Sexual harassment or any form of violence against women should not be tolerated; so what we are doing today is to strengthen the voices of these young women to be able to have the courage to report abuse whenever it occurs,” she said.
