The Convolve of Hope Executive Summary

In Nigeria, a majority of women struggle with poverty, lack of education, and constraints on their decision-making power regarding their own reproductive and sexual health.  The Convolve of Hope Initiative, the non-governmental organization working to eradicate Traditional Practices Affecting  the Health of Women and Girls has for over the years been engaged in a campaign...

I WILL CHAMPION THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND YOUNG GIRLS IN NIGERIA

“I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and...

MY JOURNEY, MY MISSION AND WHY I HAVE CHOSEN TO #ENDFGM AND ADVOCATE FOR CIRCUMCISERS TO #BREAK_D_RAZOR IN NIGERIA.

Azeez has friends and relatives who have suffered from FGM and wants everyone –girls and boys- to fight to stop it. I got involved with being an anti-FGM because of the horrible, unimaginable trauma young women and girls are subject to during the process of Cutting. There is a real difference to the attitude towards...

STOP FGM ADVOCACY Jan. 2018

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is regarded by the United Nations as an infringement on the rights of Women (Girls). Our advocacy train will be heading to one of communities in Edo State, Nigeria where this practice is still been carried out on Young girls. This year's campaign is tagged: Break d' Razor, Taking Actions against...

The nine Objectives to Heighten Awareness on Sexual Abuse in Edo State by Convolve of Hope Initiative

 Get more people to join the campaign against sexual violations in Edo State while encouraging survivors to speak out and seek support/services  Identify partners that will synergize with COHi for the Appeal of those convicted cases with options of fines  Call on the Lawmakers and the Judiciary for implementation of Edo State...

Teenage Pregnancy & Child Marriage Must be ERADICATED COMPLETLY.

GIRL CHILD MARRIAGE MUST STOP ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.   With all the effort put in place to end girl child marriage in Nigeria, parents are now secretly given out their underage girls for marriage. These men that are marrying them are not young men and most of them are married to so many women and...

SDGs TRAINING SESSION – 2017

SDGs Implementation Plan & Kickoff in Edo State by Convolve of Hope Initiative. Topic: Community Engagement The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in September 2015 by 193 countries, gives us a 15 year way forward to create actions and collaborations to preserve our planet, design social programs to increase equity, food for all, build safe and...

Another Form of Child Abuse

I saw something interesting today. My occasional bus ride to work when I want to beat certain traffic and not get stopped on the way for it, yields me delight every time! Today I had mixed feelings and this is why. After I got into the vehicle, followed by two other ladies, the last occupant […]...

Child Abuse

There are quite a lot of us out here, children greatly harmed by the evangelizing atheism of our parents, by agendas that took precedent over natural affection, by world views that actually masked much greater dysfunctions. Mustard Seed posted the story of a much more famous evangelizing atheist, “Son of Atheist Apostle Madalyn Murray O’Hair […]...

Invest in Us, Empower Our Mind

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