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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

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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.

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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