Accessing Quality Programs for Girls


This week, I look further into the website of the Global Fund for Children    https://globalfundforchildren.org , i come across a link https://globalfundforchildren.org/our-partners/where-we-work/africa-the-middle-east/ that discusses about Global fund for children's work in Nigeria. YES! Nigeria my beloved Country.

The Global Fund for Children partner with the Child and Youth Protection Foundation (CYPF) in Abuja Nigeria to work with young children especially girls who work as domestic servants, predominantly girls who are trafficked from rural areas and are denied an education and are particularly at risk of experiencing sexual violence and abuse.

For these girls quality care and education remains unattainable as they experience various barriers and experience difficulty in accessing quality programs but for the intervention of CYPF.
CYPF's Strategy involves a combination of formal education and counselling with an after school tutoring ensuring that these young girls are not denied the access to excellent to quality education.

I like the quote from this week discussion’' Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" - Martin Luther King Jr. All children should have equal access to education and interventions like this is helping to remove barriers to quality education for them.


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  1. Naire.m17 June 2018 at 23:22

    Thank you for sharing about Global fund for children and great job for choosing the quote.

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