Gender Equality Nigeria Project #30291

Empower Victims of Boko Haram Violence In Nigeria

by Centre for Sustainable Development and Education in Africa

Empower Victims of Boko Haram Violence In Nigeria

Project Report | Jun 1, 2021
Peacebuilding Project and Impact of COVID-19

By Theophilus Ekpon | Project Coordinator

Some Project Recipients Monitoring Their Cattle

Many thanks for your support to this project and especially throughout the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Your kind donations have ensured that we are able to sustain and expand the project.

All aspects of the project for the girls and women who were victims of the Boko Haram violence continue to make progress. The on-going components of the project include trauma healing, tailoring, cattle rearing and mentorship. We have rented part of a new cattle ranch outside of Yola and have started empowering more girls and women with cattle at the new ranch.

During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, your support went to supporting project participants with sanitary and hygiene materials, including giving loans to pay for their shop rents and buying medicines for their cattle. However, the post-pandemic era has brought a new challenge of inflation, as buying new cattle, sewing machines and other project materials and services now cost between 30 and 60 percent more. Thank you to our monthly donors and we will be happy to get more donations to help us address the impact of inflation on the project.

Thank you all for your support always!

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Feb 2, 2021
Welcome to the New Year!

By Theophilus Ekpon | Project Coordinator

Oct 5, 2020
Updates: COVID-19 Conference for Girls and Women

By Theophilus Ekpon | Project Coordinator

Some participants at the COVID-19 conference

Dear all,

Thank you for your kind donations to this project. As reported earlier, the Psycho-social support and livelihood trainings for the victims of violent extremism in the North East of Nigeria are on-going. However, we have taken some physical distancing measures including no handshakes, conducting meetings outside when possible, wearing face masks, frequent hand washing and the use of sanitizers to keep project participants safe during the psycho-social support sessions, tailoring school, and cattle rearing activities.

With the support of GlobalGiving and your kind donations we were able to give COVID-19 rescue grants to 178 girls and women who are present or previous participants in this project at a COVID-19 Conference that we organized for them. This support ranges from cash awards to support them and their families in this challenging period, to paying rent for their tailoring shops, to paying for medicines and injections for their cattle. The CSDEA also distributed soaps to wash their hands regularly, and face masks to all the 178 girls and women who have so far benefitted from this COVID-19 rescue grants.

We are looking for more funds to sustain this project and support more girls and women. The December 1^st2020 Giving Tuesday Campaign presents another opportunity to raise the much needed funds. You can help by donating and also volunteer to reach out to your friends and family to support this project on December 1^st. GlobalGiving will be giving away 1 million dollars and every donation made on that day will be matched proportionally.

Thank you for your support always!

Pictures from cattle ranch

Some of the women who rear cattles

More pictures from the cattle ranch

Participants washing their hands to again entry

A section of COVID-19 conference participants

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