To commemorate the 2022 16 days of Activism. CHESIDS partnered with some youths to drive a social media campaign against gender-based violence. The campaign messages span across the scope, consequences, and factors contributing to violence against women and girls, as well as the roles of individuals and society in eliminating gender-based violence. Video coming soon
In June 2016, CHESIDS launched an initiative to encourage young people to make an impact on the health of disadvantaged rural or urban slum communities. In the first round, over a hundred applications were received from young people wishing to make an impact in communities located in North Central Nigerian states. The successful candidate, Eziedo Chidubem, presented the Zhilu Village, Jabi-Abuja as his beneficiary community and sought to make an impact in the health of community members by addressing their sanitation and hygiene. CHESIDS has provided financial and technical assistance to this successful candidate in pursuance of his vision. One
CHESIDS is a current grantee of The Girl Generation (TGG); a global collective with a shared vision to #EndFGM in one generation. In this partnership with TGG, CHESIDS is working to increase youth leadership in the collective effort to end FGM by stimulating more constructive intergenerational FGM-themed conversations, improving the knowledge and skills of targeted youths to correctly advocate and drive informed action against FGM, and implementing youth driven FGM-themed events in four communities in Ido Osi Local Government Area (LGA) of Ekiti State in south-west Nigeria. CHESIDS approaches Health as a development Issue. One of its strategies is Partnering
In 2020, CHESIDS organized a campaign on substance Abuse among young people in sherriti community, Kabusa, Abuja. These young people were exposed to the dangers and health consequences of substance abuse. They also received training on how to support victims against illicit drug use. Participants pledged their commitment to being advocates against substance abuse at the end of the event. We consider this a unique initiative because: 1 Programs that focus on youths tend to place more emphasis on improving the health of youths. Read More This is good, but it is equally important to strengthen the role of youths
