By George Obua | Project Leader
You cannot be empowered unless you know the tools that empowers you
Throughout history and across since the beginning of nations till today, the history reveals; men on average have greater access to power (Brown, 1991). The gender power model suggests that power is generated on gender basis; particularly, men relative to women have greater access to the use of force, greater access to resource control, less social obligations to uphold, and more advantageous cultural ideologies (Pratto & Walker, 2004). Since than, this gender inequality can be observed in several aspects of daily life such as access to education, job opportunities, and economic resources including being exposed to resourceful places. According to a report by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (2014), they noted that: in 2011 only 20% of the low-income nations had achieved gender parity in primary education and 66% of the world’s 774 million illiterate adults were still women. There is consensus that gender equity is an important goal to be achieved by many including United Nations.
Although there are various techniques that can be used by various institutions fighting for the empowerment of women and girls across the global; Kole Intellectual Forum among others that has chosen to empower their girls out of schools through Home Economics. In it, among others, the organization is empowering the girls through exposure. They are taking them in various resourceful places to discover where resources that can empower them do exist. This time, they were taken to Kole District Local Government in Ugnada where a number of Government activities, and events take place to discover the truth about the resources and services that can be explore into.
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