We are excited to conclude the fifth Cohort of the Evolve Mentorship Program. Recall that the EMP started in 2019 with six mentees and 16 mentors. Today, our community has grown with more mentors and mentees joining the program. Our Cohort 5 ladies had an amazing time learning about leadership, assertiveness, building self confidence, thriving …
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Strong Enough Girls Empowerment Initiative (SEGEI) is elated to receive grant from the Aids Health Care Foundation (AHF) to mitigate the untold hardship that the Covid-19 pandemic put upon women and girls in the society. This project provided food palliative, hygiene products and economic seed grant to women and girls in Abuja, Kaduna and Lagos …
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This month, we celebrate our amazing mentor T. Luna Imhotep who has been with the EMP doing great work with our mentees. Let’s meet her! My name is T. or Luna, I’m from Atlanta by way of the midwestern United States. I graduated from Agnes Scott College with my B.A. in Religious Studies and …
Mentorship is indeed a wonderful journey both for the Mentees and the Mentors. Since the inception of the Evolve Mentorship Program in January 2019, our mentors have contributed immensely in nurturing young women leaders and teaching them how to use their voices to make an impact in the world. In this video clip, our mentors …
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INTRODUCTION Menstruation is a naturally occurring physiological phenomenon in adolescent girls and pre-menopausal women.[1] Menstruation necessitates the availability of material resources to absorb or collect menstrual blood, facilitate personal hygiene and dispose of waste, ideally with adequate privacy.[2] Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is defined as “Women and adolescent girls using a clean menstrual management material to absorb …
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There is a paradigm shift in the way work is being done now and even after the COVID 19 crisis, there’s no guarantee that things will remain the same. A lot of companies are adjusting in their approach and only the resilient and dynamic ones can cope with the rapid shift. Whether you are thinking …
According to the World Bank (2018), at least 500 million women and girls lack adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene management (MHM). Inadequate privacy measures and inadequate disposal facilities for used absorbents may cause anxiety and stress among them. This problem may lead to absenteeism from school and work which could have severe economic costs on …
