PAN-AFRICAN YOUTHS FOR SOCIETAL DEVELOPMENT

"Empowering Adolescent Girls : Ending the Circle of Violence"  Violence against girls, in all its forms, is a grave human rights violation rooted in gender inequality. Up to one-third of adolescent girls report their first sexual experience as being forced. At least 133 million girls and women have experienced female genital mutilation. When an adolescent girl experiences violence, often perpetrated by those closest to her, she has limited choices and opportunities. Without redress, the effects of such violence will last throughout her lifetime and may extend to future generations. Girls married young are more vulnerable to intimate partner violence and sexual abuse than those who marry later. They suffer complications during pregnancy and childbirth, with these complications being a leading cause of death in young women aged 15-19. This is a catastrophic loss of human potential. Eradicating violence against the girl child is a critical area of concern. Protecting ...

EDUCATE THE GIRL CHILD To The West, It's no doubt weird of society, piety,and every other of life's deciding factor to begin to define to people what they are, or who they should be. The girl child is expected by all and sundry to be a a star shining forth from her family to the society at large; a girl child is expected to be a loving and a caring wife, submissive to her husband [one in which as a lot theoretical knowledge of being a bread winner, but lacks the practical reality of keeping a queen]; a girl is expected to be a good mother to her kids, bringing them up in line with standards already set, but in all of these, little or no mechanism is put in place to ensure be it formally or informally the girl child is educated. She's just told to follow religion, follow tradition, follow the rules, just to follow everything except her heart. How can a girl shine without knowledge? How can a girl transform into a wife without knowledge? How can a girl become a mother w...