Happy International Day of the Girl Child. HEIR Women Hub was live at Love 104.5 FM Abuja With @penieldiala to discuss on the topic: Invest in Girls’ Rights: Our Leadership, Our Well-being amidst the Prevalence of Gender-Based Barriers militating against Young Women’s Career Doevelopment in Nigeria. It was an educating session indeed with many salient[…]
HEIR Women Hub recently ran a research titled Addressing Gender Barriers against Young Women Career Development in Nasarawa State. This was made possible with the support of the Nigerian Women Trust Fund. When we asked the young women we interviewed on their personal experiences on Gender barriers we got some important information. In terms of[…]
Today is the International Education Day. Do you know that poverty, peer pressure, early marriage, unwanted pregnancy, negligence, rape, ignorance, being their family’s burden bearers, and lack of parental care are parts of the challenges hindering girl child education in Nigeria? The gap is wide but today is a reminder to join our hands together[…]
Join us for our first discussion of the year as we speak about Engaging the right Resources to Building Economic Justice for young Women. Can the disparities in gender be fixed? Of course. This discussion promises to be very engaging. It’s happening live on our Facebook page @heirwoman. This is brought to you by HEIR[…]
According to a World Bank 2019 report, women contribute 37% of the Global GDP despite representing almost half of the world’s population. Gender inequalities can be called out as a major factor in this. The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals will remain a shadow if young women still encounter gender disparities. If Goal 5 of the[…]
Towards the end of 2024, HEIR Women Hub started a project with the support of the African Women Trust Fund (AWDF) The economic disparity women face in Nigeria sees women as under-represented and underfunded. According to Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Women’s Report (2016/2017), 1 in 4 women start or manage a business in Africa with $42[…]
Welcome to 2024. I do hope you are looking forward to a spectacular year. My team and I are thrilled to begin this year with addition to our team and more project portfolios. 2023 was kind and we expect an overflow in 2024. One resonating action in rounding off the previous year was conducting a[…]
The reoccurrence of harassment can not be overemphasized. Regularly, young women encounter a series of harassment in different climes and just a little is done about it. Most of the time, young women who face harassment are being asked to keep quiet and do nothing about it. They make women feel normalcy in such acts[…]