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The Maurice Akueme Foundation Girls Empowerment Initiative Takes The Good News To Adolescent Students Of Akpakwume [DETAILS]

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The Maurice Akueme Foundation Girls Empowerment Initiative Takes The Good News To Adolescent Students Of Akpakwume [DETAILS]

The Maurice Akueme Foundation Girls Empowerment Initiative Takes The Good News To Adolescent Students Of Akpakwume [DETAILS]

Empowering women is essential to the health and social development of families, communities and countries.

The Maurice Akueme Foundation Girls Empowerment Initiative
The Maurice Akueme Foundation Girls Empowerment Initiative

When women are living safe, fulfilled and productive lives, they can reach their full potentials. Contributing their skills to the workforce and can raise happier and healthier children. They are also able to help fuel sustainable economies and benefit societies and humanity at large.

A key part of this empowerment is the initiative of the Maurice Akueme Foundation Girls Empowerment;

As usual, in his manner of empowering the girl child, Chief Maurice Emeka Akueme approved the visit to some schools in Akpakwume Viz; Community Secondary School Akpakwume, Community Secondary School Ezi-Nze, Community Secondary School Ibute Nze.

The Maurice Akueme Foundation Girls Empowerment Initiative
The Maurice Akueme Foundation Girls Empowerment Initiative

Chief Maurice Emeka Akueme has shown commitment towards the upbringing of the girl, empowering and churning out confidence from the girl child as a future woman leader through Girls Empowerment, 1-2-1 Empowerment Support, Community Outreach, Parent Engagement, Training and Advocacy Mission.

During the outreach at various schools in Akpakwume, the MAF Girls team led by Lady Amaka Ozougwu empowered the girls, mostly in their teenage ages— on personal hygiene and cleanliness, confidence, time management and study skills, etc.

Ekebuama Chinenye, Iheatisi Amarachi, Senior prefects of Community Secondary School Akpakwume, Community Secondary School Ezi-Nze respectively and Okolo Chidimma who represented Community Secondary School Ibute Nze, in their respective remarks greeted the Maurice Akueme Foundation for coming all the way to Akpakwume to educate and impact them on ideas they never had, irrespective of the security challenges.

Also, in appreciation, Mr. Tobias Ezeugwu, Mrs. Udoma B. N, principals of Community Secondary School Akpakwume and Community Secondary School Ezi-Nze respectively thanked the MAF team and the sponsor; Chief Maurice Emeka Akueme for remembering them. Mr. Ezeugwu, giving his speech, also appreciated the prominent sons and daughters of Akpakwume for always supporting such program through encouragement and maximum cooperation and acceptance, whenever they surface.

What is Woman/Girl Empowerment?

Woman Empowerment is the Process by which women gain confidence, power and control over their own lives and acquire the ability to make strategic choices.

Woman Empowerment Has Five Components

Women’s sense of self-worth; their right to have and to determine choices; their right to have access to opportunities and resources; their right to have power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home; and their ability to influence the direction of social change to create a more just social and economic order, nationally and internationally.

In this context, education, training, awareness raising, building self-confidence, expansion of choices, increased access to and control over resources, and actions to transform the structures and institutions that reinforce and perpetuate gender discrimination and inequality are important tools for empowering women and girls to claim their rights.

Why Is Girl Empowerment Important?

Empowered girls mean healthier families, societies.

When girls are educated, healthy, and empowered, families and societies are healthier.

 

Here Are Five Reasons Empowering Adolescent Girls Matters To All Of Us

1. It’s Her Right

Fundamentally, this is a human rights issue. Discrimination has no place in the 21st century, and every girl has the right to go to school, stay safe from violence, stay confident, access health services, and fully participate in her community.

2. Empowered Girls Mean Healthier Families

According to UNESCO, 2.1 million children under age 5 were saved between 1990 and 2009 because of improvements in girls’ education. And closing the gap in the unmet need for family planning for the 225 million girls and women who want to delay or avoid pregnancy but aren’t using modern contraception would reduce maternal deaths by 67% and newborn deaths by 77%.

3. Empowered Girls Are Key To Breaking The Cycle Of Poverty For Families Around The World

Research from the Brookings Institution has found that every additional year of school increases a girls’ eventual wages by an average of 12% – earnings she invests back into her family.

Empowered, educated girls have healthier, better educated children and higher wages – helping to break the cycle of poverty.

4. Empowered Girls Strengthen Economies

According to a new Brookings report, “Increasing the number of women completing secondary education by just 1 percent could increase a country’s economic growth by 0.3 percent.” Additionally, a report just released by the McKinsey Global Institute found that if women’s level of participation in the labor market was the same as men’s it would add up to $28 trillion to annual global GDP in 2025.

5. Did we mention it’s the right thing to do?

Investing in girls is one of the smartest things we can do to promote a healthier, more prosperous world, just as being done by the Maurice Akueme Foundation.

More importantly, it’s the right thing to do. Every girl has the right to be confident and in charge of her future and her fate, and we have the collective obligation to protect her rights and promote her wellbeing.

Individuals and organizations are advised to take a lift of the Maurice Akueme Foundation which has become the only organization in the whole of South East that has committed so much on the girl child empowerment program.

The Organization has empowered over 7,000 girls since the inception of the girls empowerment unit.

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