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We are excited to still have you on our page in the new year. We are starting off the year in Accra, Ghana together with our board members, staff, volunteers and stakeholders.
It’s our strategic planning workshop (2020 - 2025) and staff retreat. Moments here from day one while we still have 5 more days to count down.
#OnelifeStrategicPlanningWorkshop #StaffRetreat #TakeOff #2020to2025 #ghana🇬🇭

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Listen to our #EndFGM messages on 3 radio stations this week starting 29th December, 2019 during the News Analysis. You’ll be glad you did.

It’s the holiday season, known to have dangers of some parents and guardians cutting their daughters and girls during their holiday visits to cities, towns or even villages.
Let’s protect the girl child together. #EndFGM #EndFemaleCircumcision #MediaToEndFGM #BornPerfect #happynewyear

1. Splash 105.5 FM, TifunTedo, 9.00am - (Monday and Tuesday)
2. Petals 102.3 FM, The Headlines, 10.00am - (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)
3. Fresh 105.9 FM, Ogbenutan, (Monday and Tuesday) 1.00pm

@gmcendfgm @28toomany

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Listen to our #EndFGM messages on 3 radio stations this week starting 29th December, 2019 during the News Analysis. You’ll be glad you did.

It’s the holiday season, known to have dangers of some parents and guardians cutting their daughters and girls during their holiday visits to cities, towns or even villages.
Let’s protect the girl child together. #EndFGM #EndFemaleCircumcision.
1. Splash 105.5 FM, TifunTedo, 9.00am - (Monday and Tuesday)
2. Petals 102.3 FM, The Headlines, 10.00am - (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)
3. Fresh 105.9 FM, Ogbenutan, (Monday and Tuesday) 1.00pm

#endfgm #StopCuttingGirls #EndFGMng

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#merrychristmas from all of us here.
#seasonsgreetings

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Are you concerned about how to fix your CV the right way,🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ here is a chance to lay your concerns to rest.
Onelife Initiative's team of experts are here to help you figure out what you are doing wrong with your CV, how your social media life is affecting your applications, there are a lot more things to learn and guess what's even more beautiful... its free! Yes, Free. 💃💃 Send in your application via this link - http://bit.ly/onelifecvclinic and book a seat. 30 persons only! Don't be the 31st person
#TuesdayMotivation #Ibadan #CVclinic #EmailApplication #Tuesday #Aheadof2020

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In commemoration of the 16 days of activism, Onelife Initiative in partnership with @youthhubafrica presents
Ending Gender Based Violence: Engaging Young People

Events are as follows.... Date: 30th November 2019 (this Saturday)
Time: 10am - 2pm (Red carpet at 10am)
Venue: University of Ibadan. (Book a free seat to get more details)

To reserve a free seat, send your name, age and sex to 08094232675 through Whatsapp or SMS.
🇳🇬🤗🤗🤗🤗 Features: Short Movies, Spoken Words, Games, Stage Performance, Sensitization Messages and Item 7😋

#16days
#16daysofactivism
#endfgm
#endrape
#endsexualassault
#endsexualviolence

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What do you understand by female Genital Mutilation and its effects? Contrary to popular opinion, FGM is not only an old and forgotten practice, neither is it only done in the villages, it is still practiced in this current age and time.💭💭💭 The #SchoolConnect program of Onelife Initiative and Human Development had another session of engagement with students from Queen's School Apata, Ibadan👸. These amazing and inquisitive students were enlightened on the importance of ending Female Genital Mutilation, as well as the effects of Female Genital Mutilation not leaving out the need to be more aware of their bodies.
It was an interactive session as students were also coached on developing basic life skills. Activities ranging from group work to role play to questions and answer ensured their active participation in the topics discussed gave way for the students to be free and say their minds.🤸🤸🤸 #SchoolConnect #endfgm #SRHR #Mondaymotivation

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Ibadan, surrounded by 7 hills is the second largest city in Nigeria and the third in African after Cairo and Johannesburg. The first School in Ibadan was founded by Rev. David Hinderer at Kudeti in 1853.
We bet you don't know that Kudeti was the Ibadan's man's Pronunciation of "Too Dirty". 😂😂😂
Ibadan still struggles with keeping the city and its communities clean and so is many other cities in Nigeria - Today is World Cities Day which is commemorated to promote communities interest in global urbanisation according to global goal 11.
How do you promote a better life and a better city in your own way for the coming generation? 🏗️🇳🇬
There's a whole enterprise built around waste management. Ibadan is prime for this as a macro business. Where people see waste, others can see wealth.🤑🤑🤑 #Enterprise #WorldCitiesDday #sdgs

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With the discussions on self-discovery, career counselling, peer pressure, drug abuse and boys and sexuality, the boys were taken through series of comprehensive discussions on how to make better life choices. 🏇🏇✌️ It’s the first of several that will be happening later. While we continue to prepare our girls, there is that growing need to prepare our boys and ensure the general gaps are rightly bridged. We are excited about this partnership.🕺🏽👣 #RealMen #SelfDiscovery #PeerPressure #DrugAbuse #SexualityEducation

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From our work with young people, girls in particular have shown to be more inquisitive about what goes on with them. They are quick to make use of information and support provided to them yet some of these girls are still facing challenges of accessing this information.

During one of our recent contact with young adolescents, they were able to come up with different basic life skills they need to develop in order to be active participants in their society. Some of these skills include; Emotional control, Assertiveness, Time management, Resilience and Stress management.
These particular skills are so important they affect the emotional state, physical and social aspect of the girl child. Once these aspects of a girl’s life are balanced she has a higher tendency of becoming a girl force among her peers who also influence others.

Today’s #girls are the #women of tomorrow!
Support that girl child today!
Happy International Day of the Girl Child!💃💃💃💃💃💃 #idgc2019
#GirlsEducation
#Girlforce
#Unstoppable
#Dayofthegirl

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Raising Boys properly may be the toughest job description that exists. Every parent and guardian want them to turn out as great men. it does not happen easy especially with the energy, the raging hormones, career or vocational choice issues etc. Our girls also deserve the same attention and thanksfully they are getting that with the various interventions for girls out there. This is to fill the gender gaps for the boys as well.

We’ve got good news! Two days from now, the first Boys Conference will happen in the city of Ibadan. It’s themed ‘Building Real Men for the Next Generation.’ Organised by Beehyve Empowerment and Development Initiative. We are partnering to make this impactful for the about 200 boys who have been invited from various schools around Ibadan.

See flyers for more details. We’ve got a few slots in case you have boys you want to be part of this.👦👦👦👨👨👨 #BoysConference #GenderGap #RaisingBoys #RagingHormones

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Their parents can support them to treat malaria. Their guardians and other caregivers can lead them to the hospital when they have typhoid. But when it is a heart break💔💔, a crush, an infatuation or a feeling of rejection …. not even their teachers know the answer🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️ and this is where the #SchoolConnect project comes in.

We provide answers to their real-life questions and concerns. We are duty-bound even when this comes at very huge cost and time.
Our gratitude to the team of staff and volunteers that continue to make this happen.

#SchoolConnect #ASRH #SRHR #YoungPeople #Nigeria #Teenagers #Adolescents

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The mood here when it’s Friday.🥂 What’s happening at your end? Is it time to say cheers? Are you saying I do this weekend? Or are you saying I did!😜 Lol. Whatever it is, we wish you a great Friday and a lovely weekend.

#Friday #TheMood #TheSwing #Cheers #OnelifeInitiative #TGIF

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We asked for 50 students, the school thought everyone should hear our message; they provided 241 students and got them to sit through the intensive one-hour session.
The teachers — very supportive, also stayed on to learn what the 5 main agents of socialisation - the school, the family, peers, the media and religious institutions are not teaching.

The teachers were shocked at the questions. The students wanted answers that were sincere to help them get it right.

Sadly and curiously Naira Marley’s Soapy dance is also in the question box …. We’ll be back next week to deal with these issues. The entertainment space in Nigeria is shaping behaviour more than at any other time. The age of initiation of sexual intercourse is lower. Adolescents and Young People need to have information in a non-judgemental space. Life skills like goal setting also remains an issue they need to learn and apply.

Let’s leave you with this body image question from a student. “I have very small breast and my friends make jest of me all the time. What should I do?" #Ibadan #SchoolConnect #comprehensivesexualityeducation #ASRH #iwanttoknow #Questions #Answers #YoungPeople #young #adolescenthealth #adolescentes #adolescentsask

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Its the start of a new session for students and young people as well; New books, new topics, new teachers, new uniforms, new challenges... Embrace these challenges and believe that you can overcome them.

#MondayMotivation #YoungPeople #ReproductiveHealth
#Success #monday #Goals #mondaymood

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Schools should not deny their students the right to comprehensive sexuality education, it does not corrupt them rather it equips them with the appropriate information to enable them make informed choices.
#LifeSkills
#LifePlanning
#ReproductiveHealth
#SRHR
#healthrights
#reprohealth

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