TALK, FIGHT TO WHAT END!!!!

In a lot of instances where women are abused, their lives threatened and their most valuable asset (children) are taken from them. They can go miles to redeem themselves even when it means losing the very man she had internally sold her freedom to

But how long will she be able to sustain her anger and the fact that the man she love has reaped her of all the respect she has in the eyes of other humans. So her softness is known to her man and he use the wait game to force her to soften her stand against him. In a culture where women must sustain marriages “a good marriage is defined solely by the woman” she begin to wish for him to ask her back even if it is for pretence because she is tired of the ridicule and the continuous questions “why are you still with your family? Can’t you forgive and forget?”

She is willing to go back and now enjoy the pain of neglect, insults and the humiliation of being beaten and stripped naked before others. She joins a million more women who says “it is the same every where” her action give more men the power to belittle women more and even refer to her situation “how long did that girl leave and is already back. If you leave, your parents will bring you back”

The continuos lamentation “I resent him in my heart yet I worship him every day. Will you blame me if I castrate him some day or maybe poison him? Of cause you will because you are not aware of even how my children disregard me learning from their father”

“How far can another woman help me in my situation. But you my father, my brother you have a voice in this male focused society. There will be minus one in your family if I die but at least a plus one in his family. Only you can safe me but you cannot because you indulge in same act to other women. You are afraid what others will ask you when you begin the fight”

If you have a better future in your mind for your girl child, you have to have same for other female sex. Only then can your daughter get to the dream and enjoy it

KAYAYEI IS NO LONGER THE WAY: YOUNG URBAN WOMEN DECLARE

How can a mother watch her daughter be unproductive each and every day after her education has ended through teenage pregnancy. This was the situation that Mma Sanatu found herself after her daughter (Fuseina) education ended through teenage pregnancy. Mma Fuseina in pain was supporting her daughter to embark on a journey to Accra for kayayei (head pottage) even though she knew the health hazards and risk involved. However, when Fuseina was introduced into the Young urban women Project by her friends, she said no to kayayei because she had learnt from other young urban women that any livelihood that threaten the health and dignity of a person is not decent and should not be engaged in. Fuseina found solidarity among young women who had similar backgrounds and challenges and build an inner will to overcome her background of “cash deficit”. Fuseina is now learning smock weaving from NORSAAC/ActionAid support to young urban women and full of hope for a better tomorrow.

Fuseina is one out of 1000 young women that NORSAAC and ActionAid with funding support from NORAD is empowering to reduce women unpaid care burden and increase access to decent work and sexual and reproductive health services.

He can study for more hours than She can??????????????

How interesting. In this era of technology and advancements, some schools still uphold weird rules that are heavily impeding the progress of the girl child.

I was amassed during our visit to the Young Female Parliamentarians in Islamic Secondary School in Tamale when the girls bitterly mentioned the practice in their school where girls attend preps for 1 hour, 30minutes (7:30pm-9:00pm) while the boys continuous studies in the name of preventing sexual relationship among students.

In this era of awareness and choice, how can schools be this restrictive to not even see the negatively huge effect of this on the performance of girls in the school. We can all remember how noisy it use to be in the dormitories after prep hours. So this rule practically deprive girls of the time and peace to study and further marginalized them for boys to reach higher in the educational leather over girls.

The Young Female Parliamentarians (YFP) project of NORSAAC  work in 20 public schools of the Northern Region towards building the capacity of young females in second cycle and tertiary institutions to occupy leadership positions in their schools and communities and to also serve as change makers on issues negatively affecting females in school. This is a measure to overcome the challenge of low females in leadership positions as we progressively empower these females for leadership positions now and in the near future.

The YFP members in each school meet twice in a term to identify and deliberate on key issues surrounding leadership and development of the female student in their respective schools. It was during the termly meeting of the YFP in Islamic Science School that the above issue emerged. The young females are very unhappy and have devised measure to solve this problem once and for all.

I SHALL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THEIR PROGRESS AS IT ROLES ON.

My First expereince at TechCampWA

A link was shared for me to apply to participate in “youth change makers forum”. I was first reluctant but upon clicking onto the link, the information began to interest me, so I applied. When it was postponed because of Ebola, a friend message me ” are you sure this TechCamp thing is not a scam” and I replied “lets wait and c”. Then a date was set, bios shared online and @ a point I was like; “What, that is a lot of impactful people, how do I march up to them:. Then we boarded planes to Accra on 5th February, 2015.

Just the first dinner on that day, I, an over-confident person about energizers and starters learnt a new way of introduction/networking. Within an hour, I had chatted-up 8 young change makers.

Then the next day, I said to myself ‘ are these people serious, mentoring plus speed, how can that work?’

Then the speed mentoring started and within an hour, 5 mentors had interrupted with a 6 of us around a round table and guess what; I had already learnt how to recognize both positive and negative corners in plans and actions, how to gain a superiors attention, suggesting solutions before highlighting challenges at work, keeping s team and pitching an idea within 3 hours without down playing relevant details.

I was amazed. There were break-out sessions, team discussions (empower, measure and adapt), country pitch and community outreach. At the community outreach, I participated in TechNeedsGirls and quickly felt in-love with the concept and the brain behind the concept. It gave me a new direction as an advocate for women empowerment and struggle to break job-gender stereotype. I shall be collaborating with Regina for TechNeedsGirls in Tamale.

In a chat with participants, I broadened my interest in websites and here I am. I was also motivated by Ismeal from Togo to learn French which I have started.

A number of people mentioned how inspirational I was in giving people hope and unleashing dreams within people

I met so many influential people and created a wide range of networks

All these in 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TECHCAMPWA, nii tuma pam