GoWESDI - GoWESDI PROJECTS

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GoWESDI has enthusiastically embarked on making significant strides in promoting women and girls' rights and wellbeing through 3 broad areas; education, human rights, and community engagement for sustainable development. To this end, GoWESDI's focus projects include:

EDUCATION:

STEM Training: GoWESDI, in partnership with other stakeholders facilitates the free or subsidised training of women and children in entrepreneur-ready trainings in STEM vocations. These trainings will afford women and children especially in rural communities learn and provide services that were hitherto regarded as male vocations, including but not limited to Welding, Computer skills, Construction, Computer Programming, Carpentry, Online Entrepreneurship, Solar Installation, Mobile Phone repairs, etc.

GoWESDI Monitored and Evaluated Apprenticeships: In addition to the STEM focused vocational training for women and children, GoWESDI undertakes the monitoring and evaluation of strategically arranged free or subsidised apprenticeship training for indigent women and children with established STEM businesses as interns depending on the vocation being undertaken.

GoWESDI Monitored and Evaluated BORSTAL/ JUVENILE Apprenticeship Reformatory and Reintegration Program: Providing second chances to youths who have been in contact with the law and helping them get reoriented, empowered and integrated into society requires a multi-faceted approach including:

Education and reorientation in faith-based values, and civic responsibility and rights.

STEM monitored and evaluated apprenticeships with reputatable companies and organisations.

Entertainment Scholarships/training in the arts, including drama, creative arts, music and dance in partnership with relevant stakeholders like Nollywood, Universities' Art Faculties, Nigerian Musicians and Influencers.

GoWESDI Publications: GoWESDI partners with stakeholders in raising awareness, advocacy and providing inspiration for women and children on sundry subject matter, encouraging them to take on leadership roles, create human rights awareness and develop sustainable innovations aimed at shattering cultural stereotypes, promoting equality and improving the quality of life women and children in Nigeria. GoWESDI publications are represented in different media outlets, both online and in print which are distributed in schools, institutes, organisations and during related training or awareness programs.

GoWESDI Emergency Response and First Aid Training: GoWESDI considers the basic training in first aid and emergency response as a life survival skill and provides regular training for sundry audiences.

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2. HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY AND PROTECTION

Women's Human Rights: GoWESDI's focus on Human Rights particularly expands the lenses of society to recognise and appreciate that underneath the familiarity of Human Rights, exists Women's Rights that are subsumed. The consequense of this is that the effects of female specific rights breaches are unrecognised, undefined and not differentiated from those suffered by men and therefore, are largely misunderstood, ignored, unprotected or even antagonised. GoWESDI's motivation in this regard is on the concentration of Equity to the drive for Equality in human rights such as affirmative action, increase in the training of women in male dominated skills and professions etc.

SGBV Prevention Awareness Training: SGBV has become a societal scourge eating at the soul of communities, families and individuals. While men and boys can suffer SGBV, the female gender has borne the brunt of this evil, multifaceted malaise. This is further fuelled by societal conspiracy of silence, shaming the victim and unsuccessful prosecutions, GoWESDI trains women and girls on their rights against sexual assault, preserving sexual assault evidence, learning about the judicial process and being comfortable with the court environment as not to be intimidated when seeking redress from related injuries. GoWESDI also trains women as paralegals focused on SGBV prevention, prosecution and survival.

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Chat On Green: GoWESDI's interpersonal, confidential, and non-judgmental chat platform. Dispensing legal advise and providing private, intimate, and dependable counselling on sundry subject matter. Women and children, especially girls endure an unspoken prevailing gag existence in Nigeria and the world over. Women thrive, survive and succeed better when they can share their experiences, fears, doubts, dreams, weaknesses, failures, triumphs and even uncomfortable desires and indulgences without shame, reservation or judgement. GoWESDI helps women make reasonable and responsible choices guided by the knowledge of their rights as members of society and provides a multi-layered non-judgemental, safe space to chat, vent, cry, unmask and confront guilt, pain and loss but also provides room to belief, grow, accomplish and encourage other women in the attainment of goals many women can only dream of.

Advocacy on BORSTAL/ JUVENILE Reformatory and Reintegration: Given the growing population of Nigerian children and youths in contact with the law, GoWESDI identifies the gap in providing age-appropriate arrests, trial and sentencing procedures, counselling, reformatory and mentorship education and reintegration programs aimed at preventing repeat offences and grooming an increasing generation of reoriented and resilient youth and a gradual shift in ingrained values towards youth positive contribution to national development.

Pro bono partnerships: GoWESDI partners with established law firms and pro bono lawyers to provide free legal services to indigent women and children.

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3. SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES

Annual Impact Awards: GoWESDI in partnership with other stakeholders facilitates and organises annual award ceremonies showcasing different categories of individual or organisational accomplishments that have positively impacted women and children or provided tangible solutions to female gender related challenges in Nigeria. All awards will be based on community impact and verifiable evidence. The awards are divided into 5 categories:

a. STEM - all categories of innovation

b. Entertainment

c. Community Service

d. Education

e. Healthcare

This encourages community projects and innovations, advertises businesses, and

healthy competition among indigenous communities, towards community

development.

Charity Food and Clothing Care Packages: GoWESDI, in partnership with individuals, organisations, donors, and volunteers organises seasonal food and clothing care packages to support vulnerable widows and the indigent.

GoWESDI Community Events/ Food care Packages / Clothes donations to priosners.

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