The Women Inspiration Development Centre (WIDC), an NGO, said it trained 6,000 women and girls in 12 rural communities in self-protection against gender-based violence in 2016.
Mrs Busayo Obisakin, the WIDC Founder, said in Lagos that the training was in collaboration with ‘Imagine’, a U.S-based NGO.
“We have led talks and enlightenment campaigns for over 6000 women and girls in 12 rural communities.
“We are teaching them how to protect themselves from gender-based violence, especially domestic and sexual violence,’’ she said.
Obisakin, who is also Senior Counselor, Obafemi Awolowo University of Ile-Ife (OAU), said the NGO would develop a benchmark on eradicating violence against women which would be presented to National Assembly.
“In 2016, we worked with 430 women out of whom 135 were facing violence; 73 of them were having health challenges and 310…
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