Onelife Initiative for Human Development is a Nigerian non-profit working to bring sustainable social change to young people. As part of HDF’s support for the Global Media Campaign, OneLife delivered the Nigeria Media Campaign to End FGM through a series of media training courses for journalists, targeted radio broadcasts and street rallies. The campaign travelled north and south, producing content in five languages – Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw, Yoruba and Pidgin English.
The data is clear: Sexual violence affects girls and boys in every country around the world. For far too long it has been a silent pandemic, with little awareness of the scope, scale, and consequences of the problem or understanding of potential solutions. That silence has allowed violence against children to perpetuate.
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