Counseling, Grooming and
Mentoring young girls irrespective of their ages (catch them young) on every
issues of life. After-all the question a ‘5 Year Old’ will ask about issues
ranging from fashion, relationship etc, might throw you off balance. Our main
objective is to propel and direct these ‘belles’ on the right path of life.
A lot of times, young girls tend
to be misdirected by the message the environment or society passes on these
days. Gone were the days when the means to livelihood matters and not the
outcome, right now the society applauds every ‘rich’ person and don’t care how
the wealth was gotten.
Consequently, we have a lot of
young women with this attitude of excessive or misdirected desires and emotions.
We want to be here as the ‘caution – signs’ to these young ladies. Hoping and
working towards making our world a better place for healthier people both in
mind, body and soul.
We are sending out calls to every
Mother, Sister, Aunt, Friend and all women to join us in this campaign. We should
be our Sisters’ keeper.
We lay emphasis on vulnerable young
girls going through the journey of their live unguided and unguarded with/in lives’
hurdles. They begin at a very young age to actively deal with the pressing
issues of Sex, Sexuality and rape. Lack of guidance puts girls on the front
line of unwanted pregnancies and other related issues which destroys their life’s
dreams and completely destabilizes the family structure. Girls gain self-esteem
(or more) from knowledge itself and access to knowledge. They need Pre-information before they get involved.
Many young girls who have babies
out of wedlock are stigmatized and are left to their fate. Most times things
turn very ugly; they drop out of schools and often never get another
opportunity at school, ending up frustrated and the (products of these unwanted
pregnancies) children as well end up the ‘hoodlums’ of the society. A saying
goes that you train a girl child, you train a whole Nation.
Women in general are the newborn
child’s primary caregivers in most if not all societies. The paid nanny, the
indulgent grandmother or an older sister are most likely to watch over the
child during its three critical years. From the womb through its early
formative years the baby has more direct contact with women. It is during this
time that the words unspoken, messages and expectation of the care-giving woman
affect and determine the child’s future most. A physically abused and
psychologically traumatized child at this time is likely to vent his or her
anger on society in later life.
On the other hand, a child that
is surrounded by the warm embrace of loving women caregivers will most likely
spread that love in his or her future dealings with others as the child grows
up.
We’ve seen and heard this in the
lives of Ben Carson and George Washington (1732 – 1799) to name but a few. George
Washington said, “All I am, I owe to my mother… I attribute all my success in
life to the moral, intellectual and physical education from her”.
These girls need to be stale to
raise their young ones. The mistake has already been made, we can’t pretend
they’re no longer part of the society. We must help them, because they need us
now more than ever. Its high time we stopped ignoring them.
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