Voices Against Rape & Sexual Harassment

Today, being the last day of the RECH2.0, featured heart to heart talk with women. The program started by 10am with a good number of women from Oyan Community.  Miss Omolola Pedro gave a sound teaching on the role of parents, especially mothers, in curbing Rape and Sexual Harassment in our society. She went on to stress the importance of sound mother to children relationship.  On the other hand, delegates were sent to Asi-Asaba community to follow up on the kid who has told her rape story on Day4  of RECH2.0.  Miss Adisa Tawakat and Miss Abraham Mary Omowumi(Ewatee) took their time to give adequate counselling to the kid and as well decide to visit her every Sunday to check up on her. With this, volunteers return to the base feeling fulfilled and set to leave for their various destination the next day. It was such a great 5-day program, filled with fun and stress, but also productive, as we were able to reach out to the kids with Adequate Sex Education and as well inform them about the...

School Outreach  Volunteers woke as early today to set out for another stressful, fun-filled and impactful experience. By 7:30am, volunteers were already at work set to accomplish the mission - REACHING OUT TO EVERY CHILD! Due to the heavy load of duty for the day, Volunteers were divided into two to make the work effective. Some volunteers took to Asi-Asaba community while some stayed at Oyan.  The Asi-Asaba team led by Miss Omolola Pedro attended to Asi-Asaba Community Grammar School; where she gave quality talk on Rape and Sexual Harassment. At the school, several rape cases were mentioned by the audience; and in particular was that of a young female of 12years old who spoke up about her 3times rape experience by a family brother of 15years old, and how her parents have only beaten the boy and cover him up on the claim that they are related. VARSH agreed to follow up the case by giving adequate counseling to the girl and as well, giving her a platform to express her mind and get bac...

SCHOOL OUTREACH AND MARKET SENSITIZATION. There was a great joy in the atmosphere of St Peters African Elementary School, Oyan after the marvelous and groundbreaking seminar we had with them, questions were addressed and well answered using real-life cases as reference.  They were all educated on how our society has been filled with societal vices and how to be conscious of all the vices, We made them aware of how preventive they can be and also not to fall into the pit of culprits. The seminar was followed by an interactive session in which we met with the pubertal girls and they were lectured on how to react to the signs that follow puberty, pupils were lectured on the common strategy used by most rapist to lure them in. They were all given sanitary pads as  symbolization and necessities to be taken care of at puberty stage. We proceeded to the Oyan market where we were able to command audience and sensitize market women, passers-by,  children, youths and adults on the hazard behind ...

SCHOOL OUTREACH  Reach Every Child Today, being the second day of the second edition of RECH, as planned, we reached out to the pupils of Power of Light Jehovah Nursery and Primary School, Oyan  and St. Andrew School, Asaba.    Having been welcomed by the king, the headmistresses and teachers of Power of Light Jehovah Nursery and Primary School Oyan and St. Andrew School, Asaba  welcomed us and granted us access to the pupils. The pupils, showing their ethusiast to learning paid attention  and listened to us, and we also learned from them. The pupils were educated on preventive measures from Rape and sexual harassment together with steps to take if they are being victimized. Also, a correct and ideal sexual education was given to the children and teachings on Societal valves. We believe that, we are raising children that would be concious of their sexual circle and won't in any away get wrong information elsewhere. Together,we can reach every child and empower them with an adequate...

PALACE VISITATION  *Report ON Project RECH -#Day1* *Palace Visitation* We visited the Oloyan of Oyan land so as to fulfil the traditional rite in regards to official greetings and our arrival awareness. He gladly welcomed us and showed solidarity. Also, we visited the Alasi of Asi land and we had an educative session with him on ways to prevent Child sexual abuse. He welcomed us and appreciated us for touching lives around. The palace visitation gave us a good platform to discuss with the traditional rulers ways to prevent Sexual violence in our society today. At VARSH, we believe in collective Responsibilities to reduce if not eradicate sexual violence and teenage pregnancy in our Society. #Day1 #ProjectRECH #VARSH

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JUST IN 20 YEAR OLD GIRL RAPED IN ILORIN 20-Year-Old Girl Raped And Killed In Illorin 20-year-old lady identified as Abdulrahman Safau Omowumi has been reported raped and matcheted to death at Gerewu area of Ilorin metropolis. The deceased was, until her death a student of Bathelomew College of Health Technology, Shao in Moro local government area of Kwara State. The deceased, until her death was doing her internship at Abebi Hospital Gerewu, and temporarily lived with her uncle at Gerewu due to proximity to her place of attachment. She left home on Saturday 27th of June around 4pm and she did not return home till Sunday morning. The family reported to the police. The police later found her corpse beside a river at Oko-oba in Gerewu village on Sunday morning, with matchet cuts on her head , and bruises in her virginal, she was suspected to have been raped. Her corpse was deposited at the Ilorin General Hospital morgue From the noise maker wall

"It's not our culture That women should dress indecently" Some African tribes go nude till recently People should decide what they wear independently "It's not our culture That women should not want to marry" Just tell us you need an event so you can merry Just tell us you want a fortune out of the dowry "It's not our culture That women should sell their bodies for money" Patriarchy, not sex work, should be your agony And the poverty colonisation brought to accompany "It's not our culture That women should love women and have sex" Our race have always had varied sexual specs Every race, from Native Indians to the Aztecs "It's not our culture That a woman should not want to bear a child" But children you can't feed end up in the wild Jungle animals whose lives poverty styled "It's not our culture That a woman should love more than one man" Yet you do not say the same for the man Just tell us unequal ...

Do you know that between January and May 2020, the Nigerian Police has recorded 717 rape cases across the country,799 suspects arrested, 631 of which have been conclusively investigated and charged to court, 52 still under investigation... Do you also know that * Victim Blaming has stopped so many people from reporting their abuse cases? * Mishandling of rape cases too has led to increase in the crime as well as making victims cold towards seeking legal recourse? *The Nigerian anti rape law also has its shortcomings, as victims are made to produce proofs that consent wasn't given? *The senate passed a bill in 2015 which prescribed life imprisonment for rapist and anyone who has any form of sexual relationship with a child under the age of 11? Yet this has not deterred the criminals because instead of the prescribed punishment, these guys are often pardoned and ask to offer community service. * The effects of rape on a victim is such that affects him/her socially, psychologically,...

A picture of a man who legally married a 10 years old girl has been trending online. I don't blame the man, I blame the society that enables that madness in the first place. I blame Religions that have indoctrinated  inhumane ideas to us  and we out of our ignorance normalized it. Early Marriages and motherhood for girls has been encouraged and promoted for years. It's no longer a news. In some community today, Once a girl reaches the puberty stage, her Marriage chances are high without her choice of marital life Sadly, Girl child are often victims of early Marriages in our society today and it's harmful to the Humanity of a Girl child has CONSENT aren't regarded. can a child speak up? Can she say No?  She's prone to many abuses. All categorized under👇 Sexual abuse❗ Mental abuse❗ Physical abuse❗ Social abuse❗ Child early Marriage leads to Teenage Pregnancy then to early motherhood. You need to imagine a child grooming child Pay her school fee ...

A 24 years old maid Identified as Esther Emmanuel has been arrested by River State Police Command over the immoral act she has been engaged with a 4 Year Old boy who is her employee’s son. According to the report it was revealed that this lady in question returned from Canada 3 months ago as a maid to live with this  family but along the line she was caught molesting their son who is just 4years old. It was reported that the boy reveals that the lady in question will tell him to put his "thing" inside her own "thing" and put his mouth too. The boy added that she’s always playing with his organ anytime she baths him or whenever she’s alone with him and warned if he discloses it to anyone that “ojuju” (witches) will appear to him and they will kill him.   Esther’s secret was revealed when the boy disclosed their affairs to the doctor after he was taken to the hospital due to the pains the boy has started developing in his private organ. ©Copied from WhatsApp. #YouNeed...

I feel comfortable addressing this issues because i felt we are all suffering from it now. Our society today thinks successful parenting is evaluated by the amount of the education given to a child academically, but alas! It is very wrong. We need to start fostering sex education in our homes, schools and other social intitutions. According to World Health Organization (WHO), sex education can be defined as the ability to learn about cognition, emotion, social, interaction, and physical aspect of sexuality which must be age - appropriate. Age- appropriate in the sense that the contents of explanation should differ depending on the age of the child. Some parents see sex education has a Taboo and they hide away from it leaving the child as they grow, to figure it out themselves. Some parents who think they're helping their girl child are doing nothing than making unreasonable threats, what this does is that it causes more harm as it affect her emotionally and psychologica...