tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78995502942774010582024-03-13T23:14:42.032-07:00CEE-HOPE NIGERIARIGHTING LIVES.. RESTORING HOPE... ONE NIGERIAN CHILD...ONE NIGERIAN GIRL... AT A TIME...!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-10444213558819712092016-07-24T15:25:00.002-07:002016-07-24T15:25:25.582-07:00CEE-HOPE NOW HAS A NEW WEBSITE!<h2 style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"> </span><span style="color: lime;"> CEE-HOPE NOW HAS A NEW WEBSITE!</span></h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dear
reader, we are happy to inform you that CEE-HOPE now has a brand new website!</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Kindly
go to the link: </span></span><a href="http://www.cee-hope.org/" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;" target="_blank">www.cee-hope.org</a><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> to read about our work with </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px; line-height: 24.5333px;">vulnerable</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> children/girls in urban slums and impoverished communities in Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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in advance for </span><span style="font-size: 21.3333px; line-height: 24.5333px;">believing</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> in, and supporting our vision of;<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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MANAGEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="mailto:info@cee-hope.org">info@cee-hope.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-86849405019913539222015-05-30T14:06:00.000-07:002015-05-31T16:12:47.880-07:00TIME TO GIVE FOR OUR CAUSE: LET'S SEND 100 CHILDREN ORPHANED BY BOKO HARAM TO SCHOOL!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://goto.gg/20752" target="_blank">See Link to Global Giving's announcement: https://goto.gg/20752</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">We at
CEE-HOPE are very excited about this project, a major fundraising partnership
with Global Giving in the USA. Will you join us to help actualise it for these
great <a data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/children?source=feed_text&story_id=406062802911538"><span class="58cl"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span><span class="58cl">#</span><span class="58cl"></span><span class="58cm"><span style="text-decoration: none;">children</span></span></a> of <a data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nigeria?source=feed_text&story_id=406062802911538"><span class="58cl"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span><span class="58cl">#</span><span class="58cl"></span><span class="58cm"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Nigeria</span></span></a>? </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"> Let’s
put 100 children orphaned by Boko Haram in Northern #Nigeria back in school.
With your kindness and goodwill, it is possible.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">The
Challenge starts on Monday Ju<span class="textexposedshow">ne 1 and runs till
June 30. Details are in the attached link.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";">We are thankful to our wonderful partner the
Global Fund for Children USA for the recommendation and multifaceted assistance
in our work with vulnerable Nigerian children and girls.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif";"></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow">Thanks, friends, in advance!</span></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-size: large;">CEE-HOPE</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It is a sweet coincidence that the <b><i>International
Children’s Day</i></b> now falls within two days of change of government in
Nigeria. It is even sweeter that this change of government is not just another
sonorous self-succession scheme but a new person ascending the helms of power
and screaming the message of a much-needed change. Yet it will be sweetest if
when seated in power, Muhammadu Buhari can shed his stern stance and just for a
moment, smile at our children.</span></div>
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species in the world, need this pain-effacing smile. It may be understandable
if the general’s <i>unsmiling carriage </i>increases in light of the Augean
stables that must be cleansed, of mountains that must be moved and of sacred
cows that must be tied up so that Nigeria can be whipped into line again and so
that the shame of a nation can end. It will be a hard time for political
criminals and executive pen robbers if Buhari remains true to his name, yet, in
all of these, he must remember to smile at our children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Why the urgent need to smile at our children? GMB
may ask. Sir, in case you do not know, the global guffaw is on us as to the
bleak statistics on the state of Nigerian children. I believe you are aware
that our country currently has the highest number of out-of-school children in
the world, standing at 10.5 million since 2013, according to UNESCO. With
upheavals in the North especially in the last few years, your esteemed guess is
as good as that of my humble self.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And to add, Save Our Children also rates us as
having one of the highest rates of maternal mortality, and infancy deaths,
ranking in the leagues of war-torn countries such as Congo, Afghanistan and
Sudan. We also have, according to UNICEF’s statistics, one of the highest rates
of girl child marriage in the world, particularly in the North, where VVF is
widespread, a major threat to sustainable development. We can’t discountenance
these reports – the evidence is everywhere. Or, you want to talk of
skyrocketing incidences of rape without consequences, sale of babies (baby
factories), child trafficking and other woes befalling our hapless children and
with hardly any respite?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And ofcourse, you may know that we also have one of
the highest figures of displaced person, including thousands of children. Now,
they are among the world’s highest number of displaced persons and refugees.
Just the other day, we saw that more than 500 of the persons rescued from the
Boko Haram Sambisa hell were children and young girls. Many died on the way
back to ‘life’. Not long after, 11 thousand trooped in, tired, hungry and dying
from refugee camps in Niger Republic.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Many more holed up in Cameroon and Chad will soon
troop back and with many children dying of starvation along the way.
Internally, we have 1.5 Million people who are displaced, according to the
United Nations Humanitarian Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). But we do not even
need those statistics. The horrendous truth stares us in the face on street
corners and school compounds of Maiduguri, Yola, Damaturu, Potiskum, Kano,
Abuja and elsewhere. These humanitarian crises, these great human suffering,
these deaths and the shame were quite avoidable if we had a proactive,
stick-wielding and at the same time, child-friendly government in place. We
won’t wail over spilled milk now, but we will ask you to smile.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sir, let the very thought of the thoughtlessly and
needlessly exterminated droves of Nigerian children up North make you smile at
the survivors, at the living lot of today. Oh, let the unforgivable
indifference of the past government move you into child-friendly action. Think
of the children of the infamous Dogo Nahawa massacre, 500 lying still,
extinguished by the sides of the cold Plateau hills; think of the 58 school
boys of Buni Yadi murdered in cold blood after which the government joyously
embarked on a senseless Centenary celebration; think of the Potiskum school
kids put out so brutally; think of the bloodbath in Nyanya after which the out-going
president, leader of the nation, went on a <i>shoki </i>dance in Kano; think of
the abducted teenagers of Chibok and all that was done by the Federal
Government to sweep it under the carpet, more than 200 of people’s children!</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Think of the fact that in all of these, the
Ministry of Women Affairs which should be the vanguard of protecting these
vulnerable young people was deeply engrossed in organising rallies for the
First Lady. It took international outcries, as you know, for the government to
ever respond. And now the world views us as ugly monsters that care not for
their young. Think deeply, sir of the lack of empathy and be resolved to make a
smile-inducing difference. The world must now see our children smile. Simile,
sir, smile at the survivors and future leaders, but first, frown and say ‘Never
Again’.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">History, I trust, will smile at you if in light of
these tear-inducing realities you make the overall welfare of Nigerian children
one of the cornerstones of your administration’s policies. If you ensure
efficient rehabilitation, resettlement and reintegration program for families
and children displaced by Boko Haram and the various ethno-religious crises and
without bias, and rescue those still in captivity. You know that without
tackling this squarely, especially for the young and impressionable, we can’t
say the insurgency battle is over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We must stop breeding monsters, consciously or
otherwise; if you ensure the effective enforcement of child-friendly policies
littering government offices across the country; if violators of children’s
rights face the law squarely as against what obtains now; if we have much
better and more affordable healthcare and strict child safeguard policies, free
universal basic education and take the life-enhancing light of literacy to
children on city street corners and rural hamlets; if education is subsidized
to ensure the intellectual development of EVERY Nigerian child not withstanding
his or her religion, tribe or background so that he/she turns out as
contributor and not minus, to national growth, then we can truly say you had
smiled. Again, we await you to say <i>Never Again</i> will extremist forces
capitalise on the mass illiteracy of our children to turn them to brainwashed
little devils. Kindly say it with a fatherly smile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Sir, you know ofcourse that governments world over
which display, allow or accommodate cruelty, in any form, to children are no
longer deemed the mightiest; great powers show their prowess by the care and
compassion they extend to the most vulnerable in society. We will hold you up
to those global standards. We expect that while you must show your unsmiling
face at defaulting adults, please ensure you beam a loving face at our
children. We can’t sit down and expect our children to turn out humane when all
we mete to them is harm. A <i>thinking</i>, forward-looking nation’s resources
and assets must be used for the comfort and protection of its young. You are
now the father of the nation, their father, and they mustn’t know the
sledgehammer of governmental irresponsibility anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Maybe, just maybe, if you would make our children
smile from ear-to-ear, make them feel safe, genuinely loved and proud to be
Nigerians once again, this may just be your most enduring legacy in this second
chance given you by God to serve our bruised fatherland.</span></div>
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for making us the ‘Most Child-Friendly Nation on Earth’ as you kick-start May
29 with a warm smile at the bruised children of our fatherland.</span></div>
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Lagos-based journalist and Executive Director CEE-HOPE, a child’s rights NGO.</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Aharoni; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-54341705953725856302015-05-30T12:57:00.000-07:002015-05-31T16:14:35.383-07:00THOUGHTS FOR #CHILDRENSDAY 2015: HOPE… HOPE… HOPE…!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">• <b>Immediate reliefs’ intervention.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our organisation CEEHOPE had an outreach to
children in internally displaced camps in Plateau and the FCT recently. These
are mostly camps that are largely out of the limelight and hosting hundreds of
children displaced from states across the North including Borno, Adamawa,
Taraba etc caught in the waves of the Boko Haram insurgency, as well as
ethno-religious crises across the Middle Belt area. The visit was to provide
immediate relief and also to explore opportunities for future assistance especially
educational, of the displaced children. It was a major eye-opener as to their
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In Jos, our project assistant Titigbe Onyekachi visited the Recab Home for the
Displaced which houses 230 children, mostly displaced from Bornu and Adamawa
states, and many of whom are orphans. They are cared for by a team of
volunteers. The home, said Mr. Sam Akaaka, the director, enjoys no form of
government or institutional support but the goodwill of individuals and
religious and other charitable organisations. The only form of government
support so far was a visit by the wife of outgoing governor of Plateau state
late last year in which she donated mattresses and food items. Another
individual also donated a building for the IDPs. CEE-HOPE donated food items,
books, toys and other items especially for the children. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Also in Jos, CEE-HOPE visited and donated books,
clothing and other materials to children at the Queen of Peace Model Academy,
established for displaced children from across the North by an educationist
Mrs. Elizabeth Victor. After six years of tuition-free operation and with
little assistance, the school imposed a school fees of N3, 500 per term but
many of the parents (displaced and still trying to find their economic
bearings), could not afford to pay and so about 50 of the children dropped out
of school, while some members of the PTA struggles to augment salaries of the
few teachers. The school currently has 140 children, many of them orphans. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The school’s urgent needs, according to the head
teacher Mrs. Dorcas John, include text books, note books, school register,
diary, sporting materials, crayons, pencils, biros and school drum. “The
children need to pay their fees for us to pay our staffs too,’ she added. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">CEE-HOPE hopes to follow up with a funds-drive to
assist in bringing back the dropped-out children, and to help in other support
towards the continued operation of the school. </span></span></div>
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The visit to Abuja saw CEE-HOPE at the IDP camp in Area One, an informal
setting consisting of about 70 families and 182 children mostly from the North
East especially in the last one year. Media attention on the place, established
by the IDPs themselves, has so far attracted the presence of the National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) though not much help has come from
government. Many of the children are without their parents or guardians. Prince
Bala Yusuf from Gwoza in Bornu State (whose father was killed by the
insurgents) coordinates the camp. The IDPs were living on borrowed time having
been given quit notice by the landlady, he said. He also complained of constant
harassments and arrests by the army sniffing for Boko Haram members. According
to Yusuf, the wife of the FCT minister is the only person from government to
have visited them so far. ‘We hope that Boko Haram will end soon so that we all
can return to our homes because there is no place like home,’ he added.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Another member of the camp Mr. Samson Ayuba, also
from Gwoza, shares his experience: “I came to the camp last February with my
pregnant wife. Since the last attack on my village, I have lost contact with my
family. We all had to flee from our land. It has been difficult for us to feed
here. Our senators and government officials from Bornu are not helping us.
Since we came here none of them came here to help us. We had to build a
temporary school for our children where I teach and no one is paying us for
that. We hope that you (CEE-HOPE) will help us”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In light of the above, CEE-HOPE urges government
to step in in assisting IDPs who are putting up in obscure homes and
neighborhoods, and as much as possible help in the educational rehabilitation
of children displaced/impacted by the insurgency and ethno-religious crises
across the North. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are most grateful to friends of CEE-HOPE
Nigeria whose assistance helped us realised this outreach, the second in what
we believe will be a long term program (The first relief was to IDPs in a Kano
neighbourhood): Salt Essien-Nelson, Enobong Essien-Nelson, Unyime Ivy-King,
Edobong Ukpabio, Africa Independent Television (AIT), Stella Ukpapi (AIT),
Rejoice Fidelis Mba, Ier Jonathan, Bode Olufemi, Tunji Buhari and the Bring
Back the Book initiative’s team.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> We also thank our board members Femi Adesina, Lekan Otufodunrin, Rev. Okey Ifionu, Prof (Mrs.) Ebele Eko, Richard
Mammah, John Abah, Sam Olukoya and Betty Abah. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On April 14, 2015, the word was agog with a
variety of events (solidarity rallies, seminars, media campaigns etc) to commemorate the first
anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok school girls.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">CEE-HOPE similarly held a seminar and a rally for
our teenagers and children in Makoko, Lagos' biggest slum. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> The one-day event attracted more several children
and teenagers mainly from across the various Makoko sub-communities where
CEE-HOPE works with vulnerable girls and children. It also had in attendants
girls from the Sagbokoji community in nearby Eti-Osa Local Government Area
where CEE-HOPE also started a new ‘Triple G’ Girl Empowerment club.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">At hand to inspire the children were youth leaders,
community leaders, CEE-HOPE mentors and others. There were also music
performance on the theme of the Chibok girls and the need to inspire hope for
the African child. </span></div>
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*CEE-HOPE remains resolute <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
unequivocal in her demand, and in unison with the rest of the world, we still
reinstate the global stand: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bringbackourgirls?source=feed_text&story_id=391686497682502"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="color: blue;">#BRINGBACKOURGIRLS</span></a> Now and Alive.</span></div>
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in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/nigeria?source=feed_text&story_id=391686497682502"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="color: blue;">Nigeria</span></a> and indeed across the world to work assiduously
towards the safe return of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/chibokgirls?source=feed_text&story_id=391686497682502"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span><span style="color: blue;">#</span><span style="color: blue; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"></span><span style="color: blue;">ChibokGirls</span></a>. <br />
*We suggest that their unconditional and safe return should be the priority of
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and indeed everyone everywhere is entitled, by international laws, to study in
environments that are safe from threats, harassment or harm and the Chibok
girls and indeed, children in Nigeria should never be an exception.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-31586012857209267352015-03-28T04:06:00.000-07:002015-03-28T04:06:43.958-07:00CEE-HOPE CALLS FOR SAFETY MEASURES FOR NIGERIAN CHILDREN DURING ELECTIONS <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLarACWprjVvfJ_4YGOkxfrWVbjuMegSSRdCM1SL60EbwuleZG2_cRIVE1JHPwFHQ8oNNA9OERyHjdsbOY1BllOpDG2VAVufrbtDl_t0HvwnIxgN4WAVhCb1f3H0vFaLjjFtqfEkscyQ/s1600/Excited+children+at+a+CEE-HOPE++party--+we+must+ensure+maximum+protection+for+them+during+the+elections+and+always.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLarACWprjVvfJ_4YGOkxfrWVbjuMegSSRdCM1SL60EbwuleZG2_cRIVE1JHPwFHQ8oNNA9OERyHjdsbOY1BllOpDG2VAVufrbtDl_t0HvwnIxgN4WAVhCb1f3H0vFaLjjFtqfEkscyQ/s1600/Excited+children+at+a+CEE-HOPE++party--+we+must+ensure+maximum+protection+for+them+during+the+elections+and+always.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As the 2015 general elections kick off in
Nigeria today (March 28), a group has called for the need for government,
relevant agencies and individuals to ensure utmost protection of children.<br />
The Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection
(CEE-HOPE) Nigeria, in a press release in Lagos urged politicians, party
supporters in all of the parties to put aside, not only their differences, but
shun any acts that may lead to the harming of innocent children. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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tone has being set for today against the background of politicians’ inciting
statements and violent clashes by opposing party supporters in places like
Lagos, Rivers and Ekiti,’ said Betty Abah’s CEE-HOPE’s Executive Director.
‘Nobody’s political ambition should lead to the death of any Nigerian. It
should not be a ‘do-or-die’ affair. We know that politicians inciting their
party thugs to steal the mandate of others, kill other party thugs and destroy
properties have sent their own family members into the safe haven of Western
countries.’ She said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The statement also noted that already, this
is not the best of times for children in Nigeria with rampant abductions, rape
and killings of school children by the Boko Haram group in the North, boys
forcefully recruited into their rag tag army, and the fact that several
thousands have already being orphaned by the mass killings. It also quoted the United
Nations’ Humanitarian Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) as ranking Nigeria among
countries with the highest number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and
refugees with more than one million people displaced by the insurgency and 13,
000 already killed and thousands currently taking refuge in neighbouring
countries of Cameroon, Niger and Chad. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">‘Nigerian children have suffered enough. This
day, security agencies, supporters, parents and people in child care
institutions must ensure maximum safety of children especially in electoral hot
beds. All must be circumspect and respect the sanctity of life in every part of
the country. We all, as adults Nigerians, whether in Benue, Bornu, Jos or Jalingo,
Otukpo or Okitipupa, Lagos or Lafia, Awka or Abuja, Uyo or Oyo Town, everywhere in the country, must
ensure all safety measures are put in place to make sure no harm comes to any
Nigerian child. They must not be caught in the crossfire of adults’ folly
manifested in mindless violence. They are our future. We must dutifully
preserve that future,’ added Abah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-82608979789272976132015-03-28T03:48:00.000-07:002015-03-28T03:48:29.281-07:00CEE-HOPE CONTINUES 'RISE-AGAINST-RAPE-AND-ABUSE' CAMPAIGN TO LAGOS SCHOOLS<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On 25<sup>th</sup> of March 26, 2015 CEE-HOPE’s carried out its
RISE-AGAINST-RAPE-and-ABUSE (RARA) Campaign at Zino Schools (primary and
secondary) in Ikotun Lagos State. It is one of several schools visited since
the campaign started last year and targeted at schools in impoverished
neighbourhoods.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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at equipping children with adequate knowledge to enable them to recognize,
report and therefore avoid potential abuse situations. This is in light of
rampant reports of sexual abuse of minors across the country. It is CEE-HOPE’s
belief that disseminating such information, utilizing age- appropriate
languages, targeted at children, particularly teenagers in secondary schools,
is key to ensuring abuse-free childhoods. It is of note that abused children
tend to become psychologically damaged and sometimes, sadly, violent adults. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CEE-HOPE’s Executive Director Betty Abah and Project Assistant Titigbe Onyeka
Venath was welcomed by the school proprietress Mrs. Patience A. Ezeh and
introduced to about 100 students and t<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">eachers</span>
already seated for the programme. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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using age-appropriate messages, spoke to the children on how to prevent child
abuse, particularly rape. She urged them to speak up each time they notice
suspicious moves byolder people around them or their peers be they 'uncles',
neighbors or even their teachers. She further stressed the need for them to
report to their parents, teachers or guardians so as to prevent them from the
possibility of abuse. That, she said, applies to both boys and girls as both
sexes could also be vulnerable to abuse. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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students<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>against indulging in social
vices that may endanger their futures, saying ‘you are the future of Nigeria.
You can whatever you aspire to be, but bad habits do cut dreams short.’ She
also answered questions from inquisitive students. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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appreciated Mrs. Abah for her presentation and urged all students to be absolve
what they had just learnt. The students were clearly excited. </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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commended the initiative by CEE-HOPE. “It’s hard for you to see people coming
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2ANU1gIII" target="_blank">Watch Interview here: </a>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w2ANU1gIII<br />
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Abah, a journalist, women and children’s rights activist, and founder of CEE-HOPE Nigeria, spoke on International
Women’s Day’, March 8) on the theme of empowerment of women for this year's
celebration (which centered around ‘Empowered Women, Empowered Humanity’) on TVC, a Pan-African television network in Lagos, Nigeria.<br />
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She speaks on why empowering women is a good deal for everyone everywhere.
And also, on how, 20 years after the Beijing Conference, not much progress has
been made in terms of women's equality or the overall wellbeing or status
of women especially in the developing world.<br />
Mrs. Abah also spoke on the current disproportionate representation of women
at the highest levels of socio-economic and socio-political decision-making establishments
as well as the increasing trends of gender-based violence among others.<br />
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And she, most importantly, spoke on the need for girl empowerment via
educational access, while lamenting the reality of the fact that more than 333
days after their abduction, the 219 Chibok school girls are not yet back. She criticized
the lackluster and seemingly unconcerned attitude of the Federal Government of Nigeria
to their plights and those of women and children in the conflict-affect
northern region of Nigeria.<br />
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EMPOWERED GIRLS + EMPOWERED WOMEN = EMPOWERED HUMANITY...!<br /> +++++++++++++++++<br /> LET'S BE UNITED IN OUR STRUGGLE FOR A JUST, EQUITABLE, HUMANE AND VIOLENT-FREE WORLD FOR EVERY WOMAN AND EVERY GIRL.<br /> AN EMPOWERED WOMANHOOD IS TRULY AN EMPOWERED HUMANITY AS STATISTICS AND EXPERIENCES HAVE SHOWN WORLDWIDE.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-75603825365153051302015-03-14T03:21:00.000-07:002015-03-14T03:32:25.326-07:00Effect of Boko Haram on Nigerian Children <br />
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<a href="http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/effects-of-boko-haram-on-nigerias-children/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Effects of Boko Haram on Nigeria’s Children: Report of Our Work and that of Others in Response to the Crises in Nigeria, written by our Partner the Global Fund for Children, USA</span></a></h3>
By Emmanuel Otoo <br />
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On Christmas Day 2014, GFC grantee partner CEE-HOPE distributed food to people displaced by violence in Nigeria. Photo © CEE-HOPE Many Nigerians, while may be a little anxious, are looking forward to the next general elections, scheduled for February 14, 2015. However, this excitement is not shared by several thousand people who have been displaced, abducted, kidnapped, wounded, orphaned, sexually abused, or forced into marriages through gruesome attacks by Boko Haram, a militant group based in northeastern Nigeria, with additional operations in Chad, Niger, and Cameroon. <br />
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A lot of children in Nigeria, especially those in the northern and northeastern parts, live in constant fear due to Boko Haram’s terrorist activities, which include abduction and kidnapping of girls and women, use of teenage (and younger) girls as suicide bombers, and wanton killing and destruction. You might recall the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok in April 2014, the attack on the UN headquarters in Abuja, and the recent devastating assaults on two Nigerian border towns—Baga and Doro Gowon in Borno State—where an estimated 2,000 were reportedly killed, according to human rights organizations. <br />
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These are all part of the frightening activities of Boko Haram. In one of their recent strikes, Boko Haram militants detonated two bombs attached to two adolescent girls in Yobe State, and another on a girl less than 12 years old in a crowded market in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. Boko Haram also recently attacked soldiers in neighboring Cameroon in a cross-border clash. A leadership training workshop for Nigerian girls, run by former GFC grantee partner Kudirat Initiative for Democracy. Photo © Tiana Markova-Gold Currently, it is believed that Boko Haram controls about 20,000 square miles in Borno and Yobe States. <br />
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The International Rescue Committee estimates that as many as 1,000 refugees a week are crossing the Nigeria-Niger border into Niger’s Diffa region. Four out of five of these refugees are women and girls, who feel helpless in the face of Boko Haram’s violent attacks. In addition, over 100 camps have been set up for internally displaced people across northern Nigeria, with some camps spilling over into Abuja, the country’s capital. Beyond the widespread displacement, many children are killed or orphaned by these terrorist acts. Most children in the affected areas find themselves severely traumatized, while many are wounded or forced to live on the streets. Some of the attacks have been on schools in areas such as Gujba, Buni Yadi, and Potiskum. <br />
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This has led to many schoolchildren being killed and most schools being destroyed or shut down. According to UNESCO, Nigeria now has the world’s highest number of out-of-school children, due mainly to the terrorists’ activities. This is a major area of concern to The Global Fund for Children (GFC) and its partners in Nigeria. GFC is committed to supporting small community-based organizations that use innovative, culturally appropriate, and participatory methods to find sustainable solutions to local challenges.<br />
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GFC has been in touch with all of its current and former grantee partners working in areas affected by Boko Haram, to check on how they are doing, learn more about the situation, and provide assistance when necessary to help ensure that children and their families are safe and protected. We also support our grantee partners’ contributions to national and international efforts focused on finding a sustainable solution to ending these horrific terrorist acts. Currently, all GFC grantee partners and the children they support are doing well, though reports indicate that some of them have family members, friends, and community members who have been severely affected by the situation.<br />
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Below are some firsthand reports from GFC grantees in Nigeria. The founder and executive director of Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection (CEE-HOPE), Betty Abah, stated that “currently a lot of children are suffering and many more are being killed or abducted, and the air of panic and even helplessness continues to rise across most parts of Nigeria, in tandem with the escalating violence. But we will not relent in our efforts and with the support of our partners such as GFC, in bringing help to these innocent and at-risk children of Nigeria.” CEE-HOPE works in rural communities and urban slums to provide educational assistance, leadership training, and mentorship support to girls, especially victims of gender-based violence and sexual abuse, by moving the girls to safer environments and offering psychosocial and learning support.<br />
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When we reached out to Bo Sita MADE, a GFC grantee partner based in Jos, executive director Ven Lannap told us, “My team and I and the girls we support are fine, though we are extremely tense, awfully traumatized, and overwhelmed with fear. The most recent bomb explosion was close to our area of outreach activities and this has affected our confidence to freely move about to do our business. We have, therefore, reduced our outdoor activities for now but we are not going to stop. We are relentless in our work to support these girls and their families because we are strong and are committed to protecting these innocent girls.” Bo Sita MADE is a female-led youth development organization that responds to the needs of human trafficking victims by removing them from dangerous environments such as brothels and supporting them holistically to help them live meaningful lives. The organization also implements public-awareness initiatives and works to protect those at risk of being trafficked. <br />
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Other GFC current and former partners that are working to protect children and youth in Nigeria are Friends of the Disabled, Girl Child Concerns, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy, Linking the Youth of Nigeria through Exchange, Media Concern Initiative, and Physicians for Social Justice. GFC is in constant touch with all its partners in Nigeria to continually receive updates on the situation in the country and to offer them needed technical guidance and support as they go through these distressing and challenging periods.<br />
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GFC completely and unequivocally condemns all activities that affect the growth, development, education, and general well-being of children and youth. We stand with our partner organizations in Nigeria and will continue to work with them and other stakeholders toward a peaceful and productive society. This will be achieved through active child-participation activities and the implementation of community-led, demand-driven initiatives that empower children and youth to be leaders in their communities. We are also committed to strengthening the capacity of community-based organizations and sharpening their skills to protect children and youth from all activities that negatively impact their safety and well-being, including activities of terrorist groups such as Boko Haram.<br />
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“Yes, it is truly a trying time for our country and a painful time for children and youth in our land, but we are reassured by the fact that we are not alone in this fight and we will win.” These are the words of Nanre Nafziger-Mayegun, the founder and director of Linking the Youth of Nigeria through Exchange. This female-led organization fosters social responsibility among Nigerian children and youth through extended training in civic education and community service. GFC is currently working with a number of strategic partners, and we need you to lend a hand so that we can win this battle and continue to provide support to innovative grassroots organizations that are protecting vulnerable children and youth in Nigeria and beyond.<br />
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- See more at: http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/effects-of-boko-haram-on-nigerias-children/#sthash.arIkl7NL.dpuf<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-26381467807975101932015-03-05T03:26:00.000-08:002015-03-05T03:26:48.942-08:00RISE-AGAINST-RAPE (RARA) SCHOOL SENSITIZATION OUTREACHESIn this #women-friendly month of #March, while we also look to the internationally celebrated 'International Women's Day' (#IWD2015), we plan to resume this year's edition of one of one our major campaigns, the Rise-Against-Rape-and-Abuse ('RARA', which in #Yoruba language in #Nigeria means 'NO'). <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-24775286319658319712015-03-04T08:30:00.000-08:002015-03-04T08:30:01.381-08:00GIRL EMPOWERMENT ACTIVIST, MEMBER US ARMY VISITS OUR MAKOKO GIRLS<br /> It was a wonderful day for members of our ‘Triple G’ Girls’ Club, Makoko chapter in <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/lagos?source=feed_text&story_id=371733219677830"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl"></span><span class="_58cm">Lagos</span></a>. <br />Betty Adelugba (aka Betty Adex), a young Nigerian lady, an American-based entrepreneur, girl empowerment activist who is also a member of the US Army visited recently with lots of inspiring talks, and LOTS of gifts for our girls!<br />
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<br />“If I can make it, you certainly can,” she told the girls repeatedly, speaking one-on-one with the more than 20 girls present, listening intently to issues they may be facing and ith much empathy, with encouraging words and not without a hug for each girl. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-85664682773790518582015-03-04T08:11:00.000-08:002015-03-04T08:11:18.947-08:00A HAPPY, HEALTHY, SAFE AND VIOLENT-FREE WORLD FOR NIGERIAN CHILDREN IS OUR MANDATE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-60430910656837895002015-02-16T23:32:00.000-08:002015-02-16T23:32:08.266-08:00<h2>
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<a href="http://cdn.dailypost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/betty-abah.jpg?6888b7"><span style="color: #f01313;"><img alt="betty abah" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-196403" height="300" src="http://cdn.dailypost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/betty-abah.jpg?6888b7" width="199" /></span></a>In our bedeviled times it seems like it is a crime to be born a Nigerian. Some may say a child has no choice as to where he/she eventually emerges, but our times have no patience for the logic of choices; our times swallow our children even before they think geography. Poor Nigerian child.<br />
As nations sit back this day (November 20) to think of strides or otherwise made in the actualization of the Convention on the Rights of the Child set forth by the United Nations (International Children’s Rights Day), it is common knowledge that the child fated to be born these times in Nigeria ranks one of the most endangered species on earth.<br />
Or, what do you make of this heartbreaking scenario: all that those kids had in mind were futures decked in gold, and some were probably already bagging laurels on their way to reclaiming those futures. A big bang and that was all. What did we see? Fifty eight body bags containing dreams sliced to unrecognizable bits in a shattered school in Potiskum.<br />
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And, as it was in Potiskum, so it was in Buni Yadi: 69 innocent school children consumed in one fell-swoop—bombed, slaughtered, burnt, parents’ high dreams up in the smoke of an insane insurgency.<br />
Then think of the Chibok girls. What exactly was their crime? In the era where their peers settled squeamishly in the discomfort of forced child marriages, of forced violations, fragile bodies primed by a shameless norm for unripe tasks, unspeakable maternal suffering, these girls dared to dream. They dared to step up their lives, to be enlightened, to be elevated and to shine as harbingers of light to their families – future and present, to be pride to Nigeria. Those adventurous dreams ended in the thick of the night, borne to the bushes on the craggy backs of Boko Haram’s lorries, carefully guarded by the Kalashnikov.<br />
Seven months later, no word about their welfare. And except for international pressures, their matters would have long been buried in the face of 2015 electoral exigencies. Delicate dreams buried deep in the thick of Sambisa forest, bygone girlhoods, children sold off as slaves, so the mad men bragged. Those who escaped owed their freedom to self-help, nothing more. And yet these are people’s daughters, people’s investment, communities’ hopes. But then, who cares? Those who have cried themselves hoarse asking for the innocent girls to be brought back have been labeled enemies of progress, opposition party members.<br />
Naturally, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs should care, as sensitive women would, if only they haven’t now become superb event managers for powerful women married to powerful men in the days of the cobra. They are experts in organizing rallies to ‘BringBackJonathan’, incredibly, at a time the world remains united in their plea to ‘BringBackOurGirls’. Some may say they are supposed to be mothers, but then so what? These are children of faceless peasants, Nigerians of no consequence, children who choose to their peril to be born Nigerians!<br />
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And lest we forget, there was something called the Safer School Initiative in which school children were to repose their trust as to the protectiveness of the learning four-walls amidst terrorist threats. Propounded by former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, its launch came like ice cold water to a desert traveler. But today, if you have a clue as to how the program is being implemented and how many lives are truly safe from the bombers of childhood dreams, let’s know. If you do not know and you ask me, who I go ask?<br />
Now, think of the bloodshed of the innocent on the chilly hills of the Plateau. Think of the bloodshed of the hapless in Kano. Mubi. Nyanya. Agatu. Alakiyo and the children driven into orphanhood at tender stages of an uncertain life having watched their parents killed in cold blood. Or those displaced without hope.<br />
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And, better believe this, the endangerment of our children are not only restricted to the Boko Haram-harassed North. Within well-fenced, well-adorned homes in elitist Lagos, Ibadan, Enugu and Port Harcourt brimming with over-dotted and sometimes overweight children, other underage children with ‘’irrelevant parents’ live in domestic slavery. Unschooled. Underfed. Unkempt. Over worked. But again, who cares?<br />
Haven’t you heard that Nigeria now tops the world in the number of out-of-school children? According to UNESCO, it stood at 10 million as at last year. This year, with more violence, more fears, more forced migration, it is certainly more. And, please, do not ask me if the government has yet asked after the welfare of Nigerian children, families now refugees in Cameroon, Niger and Chad, but I do know we are now a top ‘refugee nation’.<br />
And here we are, consistently ranking high on the global negative index when it touches on children. One of the highest in under-five deaths, according to Save Our Children. Very soon, perhaps, cases of battery, child rape, kidnaps and other crimes splashing our local media pages daily may no longer be news after all.<br />
Or, can we ever speak exhaustively about Nigerian newborns being virtually hawked on the streets of Aba, Owerri, Enugu, Port Harcourt and exchanged for naira and kobo to buyers from Lagos, Abuja, London, Paris? We are talking about children of vulnerable teenagers, fellow children, babies who will grow up, never knowing their biological parents neither history. Some, we even hear, end up in ritualists’ altars. Unbelievable but true. The sold babies, like the ‘baby house helps’ are victims of same fate: anti-trafficking laws in bold letters lacking bold and comprehensive enforcement. And so the evil cycles continue.<br />
Who is really there for these unlucky children? Remember it took the plea of Pakistani teenager Malala to get our darling president to see distraught parents of the Chibok girls? Remember the jamborees that usually follow the news of the slaughter of citizens? Buni Yadi. Chibok. Nyanya. Potiskum. Remember? Who really gives a damn?<br />
And if the president does not give a damn, is it any surprise that majority of the citizenry, especially the well-off, act completely aloof? Isn’t it why, whenever children are bombed out of existence, innocent lives hacked down for no single fault of their, the rest of Nigeria instantly go on tweeting deliriously about Arsenal’sn trophy or cooing on Facebook about Angelina Jolie’s killer dress sense?<br />
It is this indifference by the majority of the populace and this impunious lack of action especially by policy makers on so many child-related fronts that makes this particularly tragic.<br />
But the aloofness may not even be restricted to government and the tired citizens. In the recent past, we have had UNICEF offices in Palestine, South Sudan and many other places ravaged by conflict building international coalitions to attract help for hapless children of those countries. If you ask me if Nigeria has a UNICEF branch and what they do, na who I go ask? Go to its website and social media pages and see them gathering cobwebs and you will know, like government, like people, even our UNICEF and most international child’s rights groups in Nigeria don’t give a damn. Afterall, these children embarked on the suicidal trips to be born Nigerians. It’s their fault, innit? But God is watching us all on a 5-D camera, His quill in His hands. History too is not sleeping.<br />
Alas, lest we forget in a detached hurry, it may be pertinent to ask the right questions about what awaits us: What manner of children are we breeding? If we do not show them love, show them that our well-oiled government has the resources and capacity to protect them, fight for them and fend for them when necessary using all sorts of tastelessly insensitive alibis, what manner of adults, leaders do we assume they would grow up to be? Will we adults be safe, supposing we reach that future, together with the children of today?<br />
It is the more reason, compatriots, we must halt the parties, halt the ineptitude, the corruption and aloofness and ensure that the lives, rights and future of the Nigerian child is protected, starting now.<br />
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Mrs. Abah is founder of CEE-HOPE Nigeria, a child’s right and welfare ngo.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7899550294277401058.post-13646841303056296712014-12-04T01:49:00.000-08:002014-12-04T01:50:07.703-08:00HELP! FOR CHILDREN DISPLACED IN NORTHERN NIGERIADear friends, <div>
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In light of worsening crises in the northern part of Nigeria which have impacted severely on children in terms of displacement, psychological torture and general impoverishment, the Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection (CEE-HOPE) is embarking on a major relief campaign (funds, food items, beddings, clothing etc) for children. The realized fund will also go into rehabilitation programs for affected families in and out of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)’s camps. The fund shall similarly extend to children in acute distress in other parts of the country (eg child victims of flood and other natural disasters as well as out-of-school children).<br /><br />It is an initiative of our charity (registered in Nigeria) to compliment the works of the national relief agencies and other charitable organizations, many of which are currently overstretched by the sheer magnitude of the problems.<br /><br />Only recently, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) rated Nigeria as the third country with the highest number of refugees and IDPs in the world, sharing more than 5% of the global 50 million displaced persons with several thousands of children and their families taking refuge in Chad, Niger and Cameroon, owing to the upsurge in conflict in the North East. Only last year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) rated Nigeria as having 10.5 million out-of-school-children, and the world’s highest. Also, In 2013, Save Our Children, the international organization also named Nigeria as one of the top countries where it is dangerous to be born a child owing to a grim mixture of poverty, infrastructural deficits among a myriad of man-made problems. The forecast for this year’s flooding is bleak and many children especially in coastal areas face uncertain times in the hands of nature. <br /><br />We therefore call on well-meaning Nigerians and people of good-will everywhere to lend a helping hand in this hour of need. Your gift no matter how small can make a difference in a child’s life, in putting a smile on families’ faces, indeed, in INSPIRING HOPE in our country, touching ONE CHILD AT A TIME…<br /><br />There shall be occasional account of funds realized on this site and on other sites which will generously carry the announcement.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Thanks and God bless!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Betty Abah<br /><br />Executive Director<br /><br />CEE-HOPE Nigeria <br /><br />Ceehope.nigeria@yahoo.com<br /><br />bettyabah@gmail.com Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13244440829850787465noreply@blogger.com0