BY: Sandra Ani
The Nurturer held the maiden edition of HOPE Beyond Abuse at the Reaganites Memorial Baptist Girls Secondary School in Lagos.
The event which took place on Thursday 5th December, 2019 at the Genesis Hall of Yaba Baptist church, hosted over 500 girls, addressing critical issues on dealing with and overcoming the blows of emotional abuse.
The theme for the event was: ‘Conquering Emotional abuse at the home front’.
Several memories were shared at this event by the Founder of the Nurturer – Miss Folashade Ayeni, who is an alumna of the school.
Miss Folashade who holds a first degree in Law and a Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communication from University of Lagos (Unilag), said that the Hope Beyond Abuse is one of the dual pivot scheme of THE NURTURER
She said that it is targeted mainly at teenagers and young adults to sensitize them on the realities of emotional abuse, assist them to identify abusive relationships, words and actions, help them build the courage to speak up and seek help at all times.
The Founder also said that Hope Beyond Abuse would be replicated in other secondary schools in order to reach as many teenagers as possible.
She further said that the other scheme which is targeted at parents themselves – “while you nurture” would encourage conscious parenting and good parenting skills.
This other scheme will be launched on the international day of the Parents, mid-next year.
She said that if awareness is made to reach the potential victim or abuser, we would be raising an army of great adults.
The guest speaker at the event was Mr. Tim Atimoe, often referred to as “The Mind Doctor” – a certified life coach, and a Neuro Linguistic Programming Practitioner; and Mrs Princess Happy Odunowo a public speaker and Software Engineer.