{"id":4709,"date":"2016-01-08T13:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2016-01-08T13:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:19:12","slug":"women-in-yola-participate-in-workshops-for-gender-based-violence-and-empowerment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2016\/01\/08\/women-in-yola-participate-in-workshops-for-gender-based-violence-and-empowerment\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Yola participate in workshops for Gender Based Violence and Empowerment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4711\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=4711\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4711\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Registering-for-workshop-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Registration for the workshop\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Registration for the workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In late November\u00a0<strong>225\u00a0<\/strong>women participated in\u00a03\u00a0workshops\u00a0held\u00a0in the Yola area. The workshops were put on through one of our sponsored NGO&#8217;s, <strong>Women and Youth Empowerment for Advancement and Health Initiative.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>THEME OF THE WORKSHOP: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Training\/support on sexual gender-based violence against Women\u00a0(SGBVAW)\u00a0and Girls on the Move and Empowering Them for Better living.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4712\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4712\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=4712\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/speaker-at-workshop-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Session on Gender Based Violence\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Session on Gender Based Violence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Samuel Yaumande delivered a lecture on SGBVAW. He also pointed out that about 75% to 80% of refugees in the world are women and children. Girls make up 2\/3 of the 130 million children who don\u2019t attend school. 2\/3 of the women in the world are illiterate. In addition,\u00a0young ladies at the age of 13 \u2013 18 years are forced to marry and give birth at a very young age.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other sessions\u00a0of the workshops taught on what <strong>trauma<\/strong> is <strong>and how it affects us<\/strong>. Women were also enlightened on the <strong>value of a small business enterprise<\/strong>. They were encouraged to form groups to help one another in their business ventures. Sessions also included record keeping and \u00a0the value of good communication\/advertising.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4710\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4710\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=4710\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Participants-of-workshop-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Muslims and Christians were encouraged to participate.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants &#8211; \u00a0both Muslims and Christians\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the particapants, Lami John, appreciated the effort of WYEAHI for the great support rendered to them to enable them \u00a0to engage themselves in petty business for the sustainability of their families. <strong>Some financial assistance was given to each participant.<\/strong>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late November\u00a0225\u00a0women participated in\u00a03\u00a0workshops\u00a0held\u00a0in the Yola area. The workshops were put on through one of our sponsored NGO&#8217;s, Women and Youth Empowerment for Advancement and Health Initiative. &nbsp; THEME OF THE WORKSHOP: Training\/support on sexual gender-based violence against Women\u00a0(SGBVAW)\u00a0and Girls on the Move and Empowering Them for Better living. Samuel Yaumande delivered a lecture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[383,419,485,813,814],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria","tag-empowerment","tag-eyn","tag-gender-based-violence","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}