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Stopping Harm in Homes: Why We Need to End Child Marriage and Help Girls Go to School

Stopping Harm in Homes: Why We Need to End Child Marriage and Help Girls Go to School

by | Nov 17, 2023

 

Introduction: A lot of women around the world think it’s okay for a husband to hit his wife. This is a big problem. It’s even worse where girls get married too young and where governments don’t spend enough money on schools.

When young women think it’s okay for their husbands to hurt them, it’s often because they haven’t been taught that it’s wrong. This happens a lot where girls have to get married when they’re still very young. They miss out on going to school and learning about how they should be treated with kindness and respect. Without education, they don’t know that being hurt by someone you love is not okay. It’s important for everyone to understand that hurting another person is harmful and never the right thing to do. When we teach this in schools and make sure that girls can stay in class, we help stop the belief that violence is okay.

 

 

The Problem: When girls get married when they’re still kids, they have to stop going to school. They can’t learn and grow as much as they should. This makes it hard for them to stand up for themselves and makes it seem normal for their husbands to be in charge and hurt them. Also, when there’s not enough money for schools, not everyone can learn about respecting women and saying no to violence.

 

  • Girls married young often have to leave school early.
  • Missing school means they don’t learn important things, like how it’s wrong to be hit.
  • They might think it’s normal for husbands to be mean, because they don’t see other ways of living.
  • Schools with less money can’t teach kids about being kind and that hitting is always bad.
  • This lack of education can make some women think it’s okay if their husband hurts them.
  • It’s really important for everyone to understand that being hit is never okay and not their fault.

 

 

What We Can Do: Governments need to make new rules:

 

  • Stop Child Marriage by Law:

    • Make it a rule that you have to be older to get married.
    • Girls will have time to grow up and decide what they really want.
    • This helps girls to not be pushed into marriage when they are too young.

  • Invest in Education for All, Especially Girls:

    • Give more money to schools so they can teach better.
    • Girls can learn about their rights and how to take care of themselves.
    • When girls go to school longer, they know more and can make smarter choices.
    • Educated girls are stronger and can say no to being treated badly.

 

 

  • Stop the Hurt:

    • Changing these things means less women will get hurt at home.
    • When we stop child marriage and teach everyone, women are safer.

  • Fair Treatment for All:

    • It’s about treating women the same as everyone else, with respect.
    • No one should think it’s okay to be mean to women.

  • Work for a Better World:

    • We all need to help make these changes.
    • Our goal is a world where no woman thinks it’s normal to be hurt.

 

Infants dying in Nigeria due to the poor health sector condition

Infants dying in Nigeria due to the poor health sector condition

by | Nov 22, 2022

Problem?

Ugkpo, a 3-year-old Nigerian boy, has been suffering from cholera for months before dying because of the disease. This poor boy has caught it by drinking from the village’s river. Abdalla, his dad, couldn’t afford buying bottled water nor vaccinating his only child because it would cost him a fortune compared to his daily salary and his corrupted government didn’t provide the city with healthy water nor with free vaccines.

Ugkpo isn’t the only one, 14.28% of infants aged less than 5 years in Nigeria die. And one of the main reasons is the very low amount of money spent on the health sector of the country. In fact, the health expenditure of Nigeria was 3% of the country’s GDP compared to 16% of USA’s GDP.

What Should We Do?

Therefore, we have created health-for-less. a truck that saves lives for a cheaper price.

Health-for-less is a new concept medic truck that offers vaccines for all kids of Nigeria. In addition to that, the truck welcomes all urgent cases to provide them with first aid assistance. And all that is not for free!

People may ask, but how those poor people will be able to afford baying the bill of the service knowing that they are very poor?

In fact, it is true that the services we will be providing are not for free, but every patient that benefits from our service will be able to pay the bill with recycled plastic bottles collected by himself instead of paying the bill with actual money.

We will be collecting the plastic bottles we receive; we will be pressing them into cubes and then sell it to plastic companies to generate money.

In this way, family will be obliged to recycle plastic and save their environment, they won’t pay bills in real money anymore and there won’t be new Ugkpos anymore.

As Our company contributes to the following SDG: Good health and Well-being (SDG3)

 

 

Which is why we are asking you for an amount of 1 million $ to be able to buy 10 trucks and one plastic press machine for every 36 states of Nigeria so we can start operating and start to save lives as soon as possible.

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