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AN NGO, A Mother’s Love Initiative (AMLi), on Tuesday advocated for the protection of the girl-child.
Founder and President of AMLi, Mrs Hanatu Enwemadu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that child protection should be prioritised for sustainability.
AMLi has over the years assumed an important role in African environment to preserve, protect, enhance, and sustain the well-being and the future of the African child.
The United Nations (UN) Girl-Child Day is celebrated every Oct. 11 since its adoption on Dec. 19, 2011 as an International Day.
Enwemadu commended the initiative of the UN, due to the sensitive nature of the girl-child, in the face of challenging factors the girl child faced in African environment.
The AMLi founder described many of the factors that hindered the girl-child from attaining her potential as backward tradition and advocated the promotion of values, in support of the girl-child.
The girl-child’s rights crusader asked parents to avail themselves of the programme that focused on changing the view of the girl-child and society towards practices and behaviours that promoted the girl- child.
The girl-child in Africa is exposed to a lot of economic pressures, information and unhealthy transactional practices in their childhood years.
“ I am of the position that a girl-child should be protected, guided to treat herself with dignity, respect and must equally be treated with dignity by the society.
“ This, we hope to achieve, through reeducation and the re-engineering of our value systems.”
“ This well thought-out programme objectives among others, is to ensure reorientation of the girl-child on the strength of femininity.
“ The Hurried Child Project intervention is an advocacy movement against practices that promote any form of inhuman or unethical treatment on the girl-child across physical and virtual mediums.
“Our intervention covers psychoeducation of the girl-child on self-image and identity and we educate the society on the access and use of information on the girl-child,”she said.(NAN)
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