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Formative Research: Reaching and Empowering Adolescent Girls in North West Nigeria
As part of the UNICEF Adolescent Girls Programme Strategy 2022–2025, UNICEF Nigeria launched the Reaching and Empowering Adolescent Girls in North West Nigeria (REACH) programme to accelerate gender-transformative, multi-sectoral, and integrated programming with and for adolescent girls. In 2023, UNICEF embarked o...
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A Thread of Hope: Rufaida and Raliya's Story
"After graduating from secondary school, we couldn't continue our education because there was no one to support us. We were at home doing nothing until this program began," says Rufaida. Rufaida and her friend Raliya, both 17-year-old orphans, live with their extended families in Zaria city, Kaduna State. Rufaid...
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UNICEF calls for increased investment in adolescent girls’ rights
ABUJA, NIGERIA, 11 October, - Every year on October 11, the world unites to celebrate the resilience, strength, and potential of girls, highlighting the distinct challenges they face worldwide. As we approach the midpoint of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) journey, the focus on the well-being and rig...
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From the street to the classroom – Aisha’s journey to an education
It took both persistence and some luck for Aisha Salisu to get an education. As a child hawking snacks in the streets near her local school in Yobe State, north-east Nigeria, she would see children enter in the morning and wonder what was going on inside the small classrooms. She decided one day to follow the chil...
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Malala visits Nigeria to draw attention to education crisis
MAIDUGURI/DAKAR/GENEVA/NEW YORK, 18 July 2017, – During her visit to Nigeria, education activist Malala Yousafzai met today with girls displaced by the Boko Haram crisis. While in Maiduguri, the epicenter of the crisis in northeast Nigeria, Malala visited schoolchildren in a camp for displaced families and second...