In a bid to end the spread of violence against women and girls, Boys Quarters Africa in collaboration with Connected Development (CODE) through the Project SABI initiative has taken to the informal sector of the Alimosho local government area in Lagos to enlighten and sensitize residents on sexual and gender-based violence.
Boys Quarters Africa in collaboration with CODE through the support of OXFAM voice has flagged up the mobilization of the general public through town hall events which serves as a launchpad to equip, train and position a train-the-trainer curriculum that would serve as the cascading oficers and agents of change across the different local government areas within the project states which includes Enugu, Abuja and Lagos.
Speaking, Solomon Ayodele; the Founder of Boys Quarter Africa and a gender-based violence expert emphasized on the need to educate the Alimosho LGA because of its high reported cases around Gender-based violence which amounts to 47% in the Lagos State 2021 statistics. Hyaladzira James, a representative of Connected Development regarded the Project SABI as a double-edged sword that is targeted to more than one group of people. Aside sensitizing the women and also giving them an opportunity to speak out, the initiative also calls for religious leaders to fight this same course and as well enlighten the boys in schools because sometimes it is already too late to bring it to men that are old. The Initiative at the end of the town hall event on Thursday at the Alimosho Local Government Secretariat, Alimosho, Lagos also resulted to setting up a Gender-based desk at Alimosho which will be headed by Mrs King Oluwakemi, the assistant HOD of Agric in the Alimosho LGA as the focal person which will enable people to report Gender-based violence and then it would be taken up from there because the initiative is in partnership with the Nigerian police force and other organizations to see that discipline is instilled in Alimosho. Source: Vanguard
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