“Even now I don’t want to marry him until I finish university and if he doesn’t want to wait, he should marry someone else,”
Nafia Garba, 18, is in her final year at Government Day Secondary School, Warrah, but she would not be if not for the intervention of ActionAid’s youth Activist – the
“Because I didn’t go to school, I feel I can’t speak out boldly, but my daughters are more experienced and more intelligent,”
40-year-old farmer from Obegu-Odada community in Ebonyi state, Nnenna Nwakriko, is the third wife of a local farmer. Nnenna’s husband had left the responsibility for the education of her daughters
Greetings from the entire ActionAid’s community sponsorship team.
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Gizaki Phc Got Health Equipment Support From THSIP
My name is Mary Hassan. I am a trained health worker and also a farmer who plants maize, soya beans and groundnuts. I am happily married and a mother of
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Hello, I am Naomi . I am 32 years old and a parent of 3 children (2 male and 1 female). I am a farmer and grow millet and atcha.
How Zara got her groove back
Zara Ali A night in late 2014 will forever remain indelible Zara’s heart; she remembers looking at the clock at 7pm and within seconds there was a loud bang at
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Twins, children of multiple births, those who grow their upper teeth first, children with down syndrome or birth defects are considered evil and killed in 57 communities across FCT. The
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Pepesa had been largely anonymous until ActionAid came through for them, exposing them to the rudiments of advocacy as a strong tool for social change. “Before now, our roads were