Strengthening Faith and Action: Highlights from YCDEI’s Town Hall Meeting on Gender-Based Violence Prevention

On October 5, 2025, the Youthcare Development and Empowerment Initiative (YCDEI) hosted a Town Hall Meeting focused on preventing gender-based violence (GBV) through the collaboration of faith leaders. The event fostered an atmosphere of camaraderie and purpose, driven by the belief that faith can aid positive change. The day

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THE MOVEMENT HAS BEGUN…… Post-Training Impact: Women of Faith Step Down to Take a Stand Against GBV

Following the successful Gender-Based Violence Capacity Building Workshop for Female Religious Leaders in Ibadan, the impact is already being felt across local churches as the trained leaders begin step-down trainings in their congregations.  A few days ago, two courageous women religious leaders from St. Barnabas Anglican Church and Calvary

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YcDEI ENGAGES THE MEDIA

As part of our ongoing commitment to empower women and faith leaders with the knowledge and tools to speak up, stand up, and act against all forms of GBV in their communities, we actively engaged the media to ensure this message reached far and wide  because we believe that

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Targeted Engagement with Female Christian Religious Leaders on the Prevention of Gender Based Violence in Oyo State, South-West Nigeria.

Youthcare Development and Empowerment Initiative (YcDEI) with support from the Ford Foundation, organized a capacity-building workshop on preventing Gender-Based Violence for Female Religious Leaders of various church denominations in Ibadan to deepen their understanding of GBV and equip them with the prerequisite knowledge and tools to be advocates for

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STOP FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: A CALL TO END THIS HARMFUL PRACTICE

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a practice that involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia of female children and women for non-medical reasons. It is recognized internationally as a violation of their fundamental human rights. FGM causes severe physical and psychological harm, including infections, complications

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