17/12/2020
IN ENUGU STATE, CENGOS/CIRDDOC ON GOING HOUSEHOLD EDUCATION ON GBV/SRHR EDUCATES FAMILY MEMBERS
Gender Based Violence (GBV) campaign and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights education has taken the centre stage across the globe as no day passes without a story of one form of abuse or another.
To mitigate this menace racking havoc in families and societies across the world, the Coalition of Eastern Non-Governmental Organizations (CENGOS) in collaboration with Civil Resource Development and Documentation Center (CIRDDOC), under sponsorship of AMPLIFY CHANGE trained 180 Community Educators to work in South East, South – South States and 20 0f the are working in Enugu State. They are taken the message of urgent need to end domestic violence, wife and husband battering, denial of girl child inheritance, widowhood harmful practices, sexual harassments, abuses and r**e, Female Ge***al Mutilation (FGM), poor anti – natal care, forced marriage, teenage pregnancy and marriage to the grassroots through the household education.
The project in Enugu State have so far reached or engaged 120 Households in 3 Communities (Attakwu, Umuavulu Abor and Imufu), 458 Members of the Households, 15 Trained Community Educators, 3 Traditional Rulers, 2 Church Leaders, 56 Representatives of the Women of Umuavulu Abor, 35 Elders Representatives of various villages of Imufu Community, About 500 members of the St John’s Catholic Church Attakwu.
The Trained Community Educators’ Household Discussion activities commenced effectively in the second week of November 2020 in Enugu State. Some families are already embracing peace and are free from conflict led by ignorance on basic facts about SRHR and GBV. Some of the households gained opportunity to report issues that are posing as a challenge. Some issues or cases reported were referred accordingly. A total of 6 cases were reported, and 3 referred. One to WACOL and 2 to the Village and Community authorities.