Education is often reduced to classrooms, textbooks, and examinations. But in reality, education goes far beyond academic learning. It is about shaping values, building awareness, and equipping young people with the tools they need to navigate life confidently and responsibly. At YcDEI, our school visits and outreaches are designed
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Religious spaces have long been viewed as places of refuge. A space for guidance, comfort, moral grounding, and community. For many people, it truly serves that purpose. It is where values are shaped, identities are nurtured, and hope is restored. But safety is not defined by intention or belief
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(Some key deliberations from our project among out-of-school girls.) We wouldn’t be debating child marriage, we wouldn’t be struggling with high rates of teenage pregnancy, and we wouldn’t be begging communities and societies to value girls.Because education doesn’t just teach a girl how to read. It teaches her how
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Today marks the official start of the 2025 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, a global movement calling everyone to stand with women and girls and take bold action to end all forms of violence. Every year, this campaign brings the world together to speak out, raise awareness,
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The Learning and Action Alliance for Girl’s Agency (LAAGA) project held her dissemination program on Saturday, 15 November 2025. The event brought together community members, parents, stakeholders, religious leaders, educators, and partners who have supported the project from the beginning. During the program, the Principal Investigator, Professor Adefunke Ekine,
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As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen faith-based responses to Gender-Based Violence (GBV), the Youthcare Development and Empowerment Initiative (YCDEI) supported the inauguration of the Prevention of GBV Committee at a local church in Ibadan. The event marked a major milestone in YCDEI’s faith-focused GBV intervention, which seeks to
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In celebration of the International Day of the Girl Child 2025, Youthcare Development and Empowerment Initiative (YCDEI) continues to amplify its mission to empower and support girls. This year’s activities was focused on reminding and inspiring the girl child that she can be an agent of change anywhere she
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Youthcare Development and Empowerment Initiative (YcDEI), partnered with Mother and Girl Child Initiative (MAGI) to train 40 youths in a 3-day intensive workshop on Personal Development and Goal Setting, Self-Esteem, Relationship, Peer Pressure, Risk of Early Intimacy, Self-Management Skills, Stress Management, Reproductive Rights, Reproductive Health and Sex Education The
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Youthcare Development and Empowerment Initiative joined in celebrating the international day of the girl child organized by Child Protection Network (CPN). Following the United Nations’ 2021 “Digital Generation. My Generation” theme for the girl child day, the activity-packed digital awareness program for secondary school students was held in Apata
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In commemoration of the International Day of The Girl Child celebrated globally every year on the 11th of October, Youthcare Development and Empowerment Initiative organized a digital technology awareness program statutory of the United Nations’ 2021 “Digital Generation. My Generation” theme for the girl child day. The program which
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