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Monday, September 29th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Disturbed by the precocious complaint of Gender based unit (GBV) successful the modern society,, Women Aid Collective WACOL, has trained students of Saint Patrick’s College, Emene, Enugu connected prevention of the menace and promotion of affirmative masculinity and steadfast relationships.
The programme, enactment unneurotic by the enactment successful concern with Ford Foundation is designed to marque the participants person a affirmative mindset connected women and girls, and assistance in promoting the gospel against GBV successful their schoolhouse and society.
Addressing the students and immoderate men who were besides successful attendance, Founding Director of WACOL, Professor Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, explained that “this store connected men and Boys engagement is to beforehand affirmative masculinity and steadfast relationships”.
The men and boys engagement programme she further explained is to prosecute and bid the participants, (school Based adjacent education) successful GBV prevention
She harped connected the request for each and sundry, including antheral students to articulation hands saying nary to contented of GBV menace successful the society.
The WACOL boss, who spoke done the organization’s Senior programmes officer, Amala Okwuosa, stated that arsenic a instrumentality Professor, the programme is beloved to her due to the fact that of the precise engaging formative facet of it, particularly the essence of GBV Prevention that it threw up.
According to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, “the expected outcomes from this men and boys engagement programme are on the lines of Attitudinal shifts and Capacity gains arsenic evidenced done the pre and station valuation questionnaires”
She further pointed retired that the attitudinal shifts crossed individual, interpersonal/household and assemblage levels with applicable absorption connected the antithetic categories of Stakeholders remains captious successful addressing the GBV occupation successful the society.
In a presumption entitled: Interrupting Cycles- Healthy Masculinity, Healthy Relationship, a strategical Communication and Mediation expert, Dr. Cyril Uche Anioke, noted that Cycles of violence, inequality and unhealthy expressions of masculinity are truly isolated incidents.
He posited that they are often passed from 1 procreation to the adjacent , shaping however boys larn to think, enactment and subordinate to others.
The assemblage Don, pointed retired that “a lad who grew up witnessing his begetter usage unit to asseverate control, oregon proceeding changeless massages that men indispensable predominate women, is much apt to internalize these behaviours arsenic normal”
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