About Us
We are women and youth lead organization with feminist leadership principles on a mission to end the injustice and violence that plague the lives of vulnerable minority groups, youth, and marginalized women in Nigeria. We believe that everyone deserves dignity, respect, and opportunity, regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, religion, health, and status. Our work focus majorly on advocacy to end gender-based violence, human rights awareness, art and culture inclusion, substance misuse, and climate change effects on women That’s why we are working hard to achieve SDGs 1,3,5, 10, &13 – Through arts, culture, media, storytelling, community programming and stakeholder engagement we have consistently impacted our communities, with life-transforming conversations, programs and interventions.
Our Programs
Arts (Artivism)
Advocacy
Counseling
Empowerment and Training
Substance Misuse Programs
Climate Change
Media
Our Vision:
A world where everyone’s voice is heard.
Mission
To implement feminist-inspired and evidence-based community-focused advocacy intervention programs for our stakeholders leveraging arts, media, storytelling to reduce stigma, discrimination and human rights violations, and other societal ills affecting minority and vulnerable women, youth within our communities by:
– Implementing programs that are inspired by feminist principles and based on evidence from research and practice.
– Focusing on community needs and perspectives, and involving our stakeholders in every stage of our work.
– Leveraging media and storytelling to raise awareness, reduce stigma, discrimination, and human rights violations, and promote social change.
– Addressing the root causes and consequences of various societal ills that affect our target groups, such as poverty, violence, health issues, and lack of education.
our website: www.advocatesforhealthandrights.org