Programme Manager for Youth Empowerment Foundation (YEF), Tolulope Osoba, has said that the organisation will not rest in propagating ideas against gender-based violence.
Speaking at the YEF meeting with stakeholders in Oyo State, Osoba said the organisation has trained and empowered over 100,000 young girls on leadership, gender-based violence and awareness programmes which is yielding positive results.
YEF, a non-profit organisation is established to improve knowledge, behaviours and skills for the younger generation.
The GOAL Project is aimed at improving the economic power of young people, empowering girls with skills to break the cycle of poverty, liberation from exploitation and abuse.
She urged both the state and federal government to give credible partners opportunities to have access to talk to the younger ones about the various issues in society and monitor them to ensure their safety.
“What we have done and are still doing is continually in regards to gender-based violence. We will still be engaging young people and not just girls though, the Goal Project is a girl empowerment project. We still talk to boys because we know we have to make the boys our partner in progress, if you empower girls alone, the girls are still going to the society where we have the boys.
“So, we have programmes that we do for the boys and for the gender-based violence, we have people, facilitators, professionals who go into schools to keep talking about sexual and gender-based violence so that our girls will know what to do and look out for and they know who how report cases of sexual and gender-based violence abuse.
“We cannot do it all alone, we need partners where the young people can go to or call when they need help for such,” Osoba said.
Osoba disclosed that the organisation plans “to move to schools to be able to have visible sections and engage the young people in not just life skill sections but also in sporting activities.”
Also, a teacher from the United Missionary Comprehensive College (UMCC) Francis Abodunrin Pritchard said the government itself must be an example to the younger generation, saying a lot of time the government pays big services to so many things.
He said a government wants to be popular with the masses so as to get a mandate from them towards the next election.
“Government will promise we are providing free education but look at the environment where the children are learning, they tell the parents not to pay money to improve the environment in those schools or to buy books. How many books did they give to those children?
“So rather than solve the problem, the government is further worsening the problem, complicating the issues. If there is sincerity on the part of the government, they can do a lot and set the standard and control all the things that are happening in the educational sectors.”
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