PAST AND CURRENT PROJECTS

•  Women's Development and Action Network (WODANET) - Investing in women for a change.

WODANET is set up in order to promote the realisation of women and girls' reproductive health rights through access to economic empowerment opportunities, skills development programmes as well as useful information on their well being. WODANET is a project of the Centre set up as a network of organizations and individuals across the country.

One of the activities of this network is to seek out girls who do not have the opportunity to be educated or to further their education beyond certain level due to financial constraints or girls who are willing to learn a trade but do not have the wherewithal to do so.

These are girls whose reproductive health right would be jeopardised if they do not have access to such developmental opportunities. WODANET is unique in that it is a network of women and organizations whose main mission is to empower disadvantaged girls/women.

What the Centre does...

The Centre facilitated the development of a network, nationwide, the Women's Development Action Network (WODANET) which is a network of individuals and organisations dedicated to increasing girl's/women's access to basic education and skills acquisition opportunities.

The aim is to improve the ability of young women to earn a living towards ensuring that women and girls are able to actualize their reproductive health rights. Till date WODANET has given eighteen (18) educational scholarships and two (2) vocational training/adult education scholarships. The scholarship fund has also assisted a young boy whose sister is a recipient of our scholarship fund.

This boy is afflicted with sickle cell anaemia and as at the time the Centre took up his case his mates was already in SS1 while he had not been able to attend any secondary school due to financial constraints, although he had completed his primary school education. Although the Centre’s focus is girls and women, a sponsor was sought for him who is fully responsible for his education although the funds are remitted through the Centre.

The Centre had a capacity building training workshop for members of the Women's Development Action Network (WODANET), Kwara State Team in June 2005. Participants at the interactive workshop were provided with information on understanding of how to start up and manage a non profit organization effectively. The workshop explored issues of fundraising and sustainability strategies as well as how to move WODANET forward in Kwara State.