Groups empower girls on leadership

Action Health Incorporated (AHI) is collaborating with Cummins to train girls on leadership and public advocacy skills.

Co-founder/Director AHI, Dr. Uwemedimo Esiet, said the partnership with Cummins had supported and trained girl-leaders to advance their advocacy through activities that would advance girls’ rights, adolescent health and well-being.

Esiet, who made the call at the closing ceremony of Wesley Girls Junior Secondary School, Yaba, Lagos, on Girls Voice Scale-up project, said the platform enables the girl-leaders to know their human rights, rights to education, rights to say No, rights to decision making and rights to life.

He added that it helps the girls to unleash their potential and be better citizens.

Esiet, who is also a Public Health Physician/Development Entrepreneur, commended the 6O young girls, who had undergone the leadership training and human rights advocacy for eight weeks, said the groups had trained 1,200 girls, who will in turn produce multiplier effects on their communities.

Dr Esiet said: “We work with young girls, parents, leaders, youth-serving organisations, government agencies and policy makers to design and implement innovative and participatory projects in education, healthcare and youth development, providing models that have been adopted and expanded by government and other civil society organisations.

“We have worked with different groups of girls have different sections and programmes where we have trained both genders to be better citizens of our country.”