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ABOUTWHAWHAT USA
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO DATE
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We have led customized empowerment workshops for 220
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We have conducted this same empowerment workshop for 16 women with disabilities in Lagos.
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We have led talks and enlightenment campaigns for over 550
women and girls in five villages in our community, teaching
them how to protect themselves from domestic and sexual violence.
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Two members of the Organization have gone to USA through Scholaship to be trained as Empowerment Workshop Trainers
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Our organization has also helped 18 women facing domestic violence with one-on-one counseling, and has helped them start small businesses and find safe places to settle down with their children.
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Our Organization participated in 16 Days of Activism in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013
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We got a grant of $1000 from African Development fund in 2012 to organize the 16 Days of Activism
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We got a grant of $6,500 from Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund (VGIF) in 2014 to train 80 girls in Empowerment Workshop and Vocational Training.
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We got a grant of $3,000 in 2014 from World Wide Web to Sensitize women and girls in our community on the benefits of internet
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The Women Inspiration Development Center was formed in 2008 by Busayo Obisakin along with a group of women friends and colleagues that initially called themselves vigilantes against Violence, who set out to curb the violence against women and girls through a variety of services and activities they offered throughout the local community. After a short while, it became clear that the name needed to change to reflect the widening scope of the work done by the group to help protect and improve the lives of women in the community.
The group officially became registered as an organization, Women Inspiration Development Center, in 2010.
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yORGANIZATION FUTURE PLANS Building of Center’s Permanent Site
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It is in the future plan of the Organization to acquire a piece of land on which to build the permanent site of the center.
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It is the plan of the organization give economic power to 200 women and girl in the next two years so that poverty and violence against women will be eradicated in our community
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Cybercafe for Women and Girls Only
It is also in our plan to establish a cybercafé for ‘women only’ in center. The few cybercafés around are already taken over by the “yahoo boys”; these are the boys who engage in scam on the internet. They can be so unruly and dangerous and so women don’t
feel safe visiting those cybercafés for fear of being attacked,molested or used for money rituals. The vision I have been carrying about for 20 years became a reality after few months of connecting to the world through internet. 80% of the educated Nigeria women and girls are still ignorant of web 2.0. This will help you to understand why I felt that "women only" cybercafés is an urgent need in my community “Access to The Internet is Access to Life”