Ladies for Girls (L4G), Nigeria

Project name: Ladies for Girls (L4G) Project

Project location: Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Nigeria

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Project description:
The LadiesForGirls (L4G) project will deliberately engage young women (within the age range of 18 – 30) to be socially committed to the positive development of the social environmental policies, and to become key role players, actively working to improve the quality of lives of a set of marginalised out of school girls (within the age range 18 – 25) in Nigeria.

This project is intended to focus on two major outputs; one is to raise a set of young social entrepreneurs who will be actively involved in advocating for girl-child and gender-related issues, while the second is to promote social and economic inclusion for marginalised out of school girls through Safe Space Learning.

The (L4G) Project Team will recruit a team of thirty (30) young ladies (within the age range of 18 – 30, in tertiary institutions) to form a female advocacy group. Their focus will be on girl child education and empowerment at local government level in Nigeria. This will serve as community service project for the advocacy group. They will be trained, mobilised, guided and supervised to perform this service through the following activities, all at local government level;

• Advocating for the reintegration of out-of- school girls (due to pregnancy and child marriage) back to school, and policies that favour and encourages more girls to stay in school.
• Advocating for more emphases on right of girls to education and social and economic inclusion of girls in community life.
• Organising Safe Space Learning for not less than 100 out of school girls in in FCT Abuja.
• Organising rallies and campaign against child marriage in Nigeria
• Organising entrepreneurial skills acquisition training for not less than 100 out of school girls (who do not desire to return to school)
• Ensuring the financial empowerment of not less than 100 out of school girls (who do not desire to go back to school) by establishing them in businesses through the skills they have acquired.

Goal and purpose of the project:
The goal and purpose are :

• To ensure the implementation of policies that favour girl child education in Nigeria through policy advocacy
• To raise and train a group of young female social entrepreneurs who will be actively involved in advocating for gender equality and social and economic inclusion for girls in their country
• To improve the quality of life of out of school girls who do not desire to return to school through entrepreneurial and life skill training and financial empowerment.
• To ensure the reintegration of out of school girls back into the educational system.

Motivation of the applicant / applicant team:
The motivation for the L4G project is to address social and economic apathy among Nigerian Youth, especially the female folks. It is to foster social commitment to combat some gender-related issues which continuously promote girl child marginalisation at the grass-root level. It is also motivated to promote the establishment of active and functional advocacy groups in order to promote policy-oriented political campaigns at local government level and in Nigeria at large, as against empty and baseless promises during political campaigns. It is also to encourage community service initiative among young people in Nigeria.

Use of prize money:

Campaign office rent and Utility- €2,500
Advocacy Group Training of Trainers- € 2,500
Campaign and Policy Advocacy- €2000
Entrepreneurial Skills and Life Skills Training for 100 Out of School Girls- €4800
Financial Empowerment for Out of School Girls - €3200

Grand Total- €15,000