Every girl in Nigeria no matter where she is born or found is empowered to fulfill her maximum potential.
Stand With A Girl (SWAG) Initiative is youth-led organization dedicated to ensuring that every girl in Nigeria, no matter where she is born or found is empowered to fulfilll her maximum potential. Our goal is to promote a safe and supportive environment for the social, economic, academic and healthy development of girls in Nigeria.
Since its establishment on March 1, 2016, SWAG Initiative has implemented activities with rural and urban slum marginalized Adolescent Girls, Parents, Community Members, Religious and Traditional Leaders promoting girls’ empowerment and gender equality through the fight against harmful cultural practices and gender norms, low level of education, poor sexual and reproductive health information and services.
Our Mission
To promote a safe and supportive environment for the social, economic, academic and healthy development of girls in Nigeria through empowerment
Our Vision
Every girl in Nigeria no matter where she is born or found is empowered to fulfill her maximum potentials.
Core Values
- Integrity
- Leadership
- Service
- Empathy
KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
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5000 girls gained basic life skills such as self-esteem, assertiveness, negotiation, financial and communication skills to become informed changemakers.
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Offered 137 girls (10-25years) a virtual capacity building safe space to engage, learn and share experiences on life skills and SRHR issues during COVID-19 pandemic.
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Built and strengthened capacities of 1000 parents and caregivers on effective parent-child communication on Sexual & Reproductive Health (SRH) and girl child education. These parents made commitments to speaking up to their girls on their SRH needs.
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Created awareness on Menstrual Hygiene Management and distributed sanitary pads and soap bars to over 500 adolescent girls on World Menstrual Hygiene Day.
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Engaged at least 20 public and private secondary schools in Zaria, Kaduna State to promote girls’ enrolment and retention in school.
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Distributed food items to 125 households at the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.
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Provided seed capital and business tips to 20 women majorly widows to cushion the effect of COVID-19 on small businesses.
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Supported 36 adolescent girl advocates (10-19 years) from across the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria with knowledge and skills to advocate for enabling policies and investment in girls’ education, health, and wellbeing.
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110 Internally Displaced Women trained on business management skills and provided with N20, 000 business grants each at IDP Camp, Wassa- FCT.
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Sensitized over 2000 community members at the Wassa Internally Displaced Persons Camp in FCT, Nigeria to access and utilize quality sexual and reproductive health & Right (SRHR) information and services
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12 States in Nigeria translated Adolescent and Youth Sexual & Reproductive Health (AYSRH) data into simple, friendly, catchy and responsive storybooks with over 165 Decision makers engaged on promoting young people’s access to quality health.
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Recently introduced the Stand With A Girl Education Project (SWAGEP) to reduce the number of out-of-school girls in Nigeria by collaborating with well-meaning individuals, corporations, international organizations and sister organizations to provide the fees and tools needed to keep at least 300 girls in schools.
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79 Indigent households at the Wassa Internally Displaced person's camp were provided with food items to support their household needs
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20 Girls were trained to become advocates for safe schools in kaduna state.
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15 Girls are currently enrolled under the first cohort of the SWAG Education safe space at Wassa IDP camp and are being taught numeracy, literacy and lifeskills.
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In 2022, 4 girls were enrolled into secondary school under the SWAG Education project.
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Sensitized over 6000 community members across 7 states in Nigeria to access and utilize quality sexual and reproductive health & Right (SRHR) information and services under the Data Made Simple project.
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SWAG Initiative has engaged over 30 media organizations in relation to our goal across the country
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For world menstrual hygiene day 2022, SWAG Initiative sensitized 200 women and girls at Tasha community and distributed menstrual hygiene product for the women and girls
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1800 In and Out of school adolescents and young people in urban and rural areas were sensitized on sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and fitness as well as mental health during the 2022 international adolescent health week
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60 Youth Data Advocates were engaged and trained to simplify data on AYSRH across 12 states in Nigeria
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Over 100 community leaders engaged in various projects to ensure sustainability
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The capacity of 30 women and girls was built to carry out smart advocacy on sexual and gender-based violence in the IDP camp
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For world menstrual hygiene fay 2022, SWAG Initiative sensitized 200 women and girls at tasha community and distributed menstrual hygiene product for the women and girls
Our Objectives
To empower girls to make informed choices about their education, health and development;
To reduce maternal and infant deaths;
To increase girls’ potential to meaningfully engage in economic and political activities.
To increase the focus on adolescent health especially Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at all levels in Nigeria
To support members of the community in meeting their education, health and empowerment needs.
To cooperate with relevant government and non-governmental organizations to achieve its objectives
what we do.
Learn more about our work
Education
Education
SWAG advocates for Girls’ Education and supports girls to remain in school by providing supports and educational materials needed to keep them in school…
Health
Health
SWAG is concerned about the health of women and girls. She works to promote a safe and supportive environment for their health.
Health
SWAG is concerned about the health of women and girls. She works to promote a safe and supportive environment for their health.
Development
Development
SWAG Initiative is concerned with growth and development. She is dedicated to ensuring that every girl in Nigeria no matter where she is born or found is empowered to fulfil maximum potentials.
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SWAG Initiative finds, funds, strengthens, and shares women-driven solutions that will transform lives in urban communities. Our partners start by listening to women, who know best what they need, in order to thrive.
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By contributing to the SWAG Initiative you ensure that girls are not denied an education because of their inability to afford it.
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