INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD 2018; ESLF CELEBRATES

The United Nations set apart today to create more opportunity for girls and increase awareness of gender inequalities faced by girls worldwide because of their gender. These inequalities includes access to education, nutrition, legal rights, medical care, and protection from discrimination, violence against women and forced child marriage. The celebration of the day also “reflects the successful emergence of girls and young women as a distinct cohort in development policy, programming, campaigning and research.”
Under the theme, With Her: A Skilled GirlForce, The Eunice Spring of Life Foundation celebrated this year’s International Day of the Girl by bringing together adolescent school girls, out-of-school Internally Displaced Girls, partners and stakeholders to advocate for, and draw attention and investments to, the most pressing needs and opportunities for girls to attain skills for employability.
At the symposium held at J. S. Tarka Foundation complex, ESLF reached over 500 adolescent girls by building their capacity in the importance of Self-worth, Self-esteem and how the Girl Child is most the most important value to Economic Development with Dr. Helen Teghtegh and Dr. Victoria Daaor as facilitators. They both postulated that, the Girl Child especially the Benue Girl has the potential of becoming great if encouraged by themselves of realising their self value and opening up their minds to liberating themselves economically.
The host of the day, Founder/Chairperson ESLF Dr. Eunice Erdoo Ortom, amongst other dignitaries spoke on the importance of protecting, securing, and adding value to the Girl Child and encouraged the young ones by telling them of the great potentials they have to transforming their lives and the the general society.
Educational materials were donated to the school girls to aid their learning.

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