Primary
Prevention
Strategics

Teaching school aged girls how to prevent being sexually abused

Empowering Girls

 

Teaching school aged girls strategies that will buffer them from sexual attacks

School
Based
Solutions

Teaching young girls Primary Prevention Techniques that will buffer them against Gender Based Violence

Mass Media
& social networking

To combat attitudes & Behaviours that promotes gender based violence

Enough
      is
Enough!

Capacity Building of  grassroots Women to stand up! Speak Up! and Break the Silence!

NO! MEANS NO!

Empowering
Grassroots
Women Groups

 

Combating attitudes & Behaviors

Using mass media to combat attitudes and behaviors that promote gender based violence in Nigeria

Engaging Strategic Groups

Boys, Men, Youths and Community leaders in the campaign to eradicate Gender Based Violence

Stand Up! Speak Up! Break the Silence

We support women in their efforts to organize themselves to stop violence against women!

Inheritance Rights for Women

Teaching women how to write a legal will and appoint a legal guardian for their children

Safe Dating

Teaching our youths primary prevention techniques will help prevent violence before it occurs

SayNo to Gender Based Violence!

“Violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable”

Economic Empowerment

Women who are economically independent are more likely to leave abusive relationships

Violence is preventable!

Teaching girls, boys the importance of violence prevention using primary prevention strategies.

Recent Posts

  • Mercy Nnaji – Victim GBV

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    Press Release On Mercy Nnadi Victim of Burns 09 May, 2012 On the 07 of April, 2012, Mercy Nnadi 38yrs became a victim of
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  • Physical Abuse

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    JUST IN: Another woman battered to stupor by her husband in Lagos. She was rushed to hospital this evening and can’t utter a word. Details are
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  • Emotional Abuse

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    PIC: Late Ogochukwu Onuchukwu (Nee Onugu). My Story: Ogochukwu Onuchukwu – A woman shares her story from the grave 23/10/1976 – 27/2/2012 I don’t
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  • Advocacy

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    The main purpose of this video competition is to engage and educate the public using mass media and social networking technologies to combat attitudes
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  • GBV

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    Posted on November 13, 2011 by zaharawomen ‘He slept with 4 of us and then paraded us Unclad’ •Girl petitions police over assault From TUNDE RAHEEM,
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  • Girl Rape

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    Posted by zaharawomen There is an alarming increase in cases of child rape and abuse in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, in recent times as 244
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  • Child Rape

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    12 Year old Orphan Brutally Raped By Stranger Posted by zaharawomen After days of thorough search and detailed investigation, men of the Nigeria Police Force
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  • Child Rape

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    ILORIN -Kwara State Minor Girls Rape Tops Court’s Pending Cases The Kwara Deputy Chief Registrar in charge of litigation, Alhaji Nureini Kuranga, says majority of rape
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  • Campus Initiative

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    The Zahara Campus Initiative is centered on Primary prevention of sexual violence against women and girls. This initiative involves strategies that stops violence before
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Primary Prevention Techniques – Violence is Preventable!

Primary prevention involves strategies that stops violence before it initially occurs. These strategies reduce the factors that put people at risk for experiencing violence. They also increase the factors that protect people or buffer them from risk.

Zahara Women Foundation is partnering with universities, polytechnics, schools, the local police and tribal leaders in training female students in schools to protect themselves from sexual violence.

Violence also erodes the fabric of our communities. It can threaten productivity in the workplace, decrease the value of our homes and businesses, and disrupt essential public and social services. The economic cost of violence is staggering. In 2000, the medical costs and productivity losses associated with nonfatal violence-related injuries and deaths were estimated at more than $70 billion each year. The total burden to society is far greater.

The good news is that violence is a problem with a solution. It can be prevented by using a thoughtful and systematic approach. While the field of violence prevention is still developing, our knowledge of “what works” increases every day.

Solutions

Combating attitude and behaviors that promotes gender based violence!

Sexual violence is a serious problem that can have lasting, harmful effects on victims and their family, friends, and communities. The goal of sexual violence prevention is simple-to stop it from happening in the first place. Our comprehensive prevention strategies should address factors at each of the levels that influence sexual violence -the individual, relationship, community, and society. Our prevention strategies are currently focused on: the victim, the perpetrator, and the bystanders. Our risk reduction techniques are aimed at equipping the victim with knowledge, awareness, and possibly self-defense skills
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