In 2007- 2012’ Rainbo, United kingdom supported our organization Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP) to implement an FGM project in Enugu state, Nigeria.

Female Genital Mutilation is a cultural practice that serves a right of passage as well as an initiation process into womanhood in the Eastern part of Nigeria – Enugu and Ebonyi state are predominant. The practices is also predominant in source parts of northern Nigeria,

In Enugu State also the “Circumcision” take place on the day of a female child’s naming ceremony.

Naming ceremony without circumcision little Mmesoma benefits from this program.

Dancing galore as family members rejoices with little Mmesoma.

Faith Obioma Ugwu Project Officer (FGM Programme) Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP).

OBJECTIVE OF COMPETITION BILL WORKSHOP/ROAD WALK HELD IN ENUGU ON THE 9TH – 10TH OF AUGUST, 2016
– To facilitate a better understanding of the content of the “COMPETITION BILL” currently before the National Assembly by Journalists, Private Sector Organisations and CSO’s involved in consumer awareness protection
– To emphasize the over all importance of the Bill to Private Sector Organisations which is to “Prohibit restrictive business practices which prevent, restrict, or distort competition or constitute an abuse of a dominant position of market power in Nigeria”.
Our appeal:
“SAY YES TO COMPETITION BILL”
WHY YOU SHOULD SAY YES TO COMPETITION BILL
1. Competition creates Job Opportunities
2. Competition prevents Price Fixing
3. Competition protects Consumers
4. Competition encourages Quality
5. Competition kills Monopoly
6. Competition drives Prices down
7. Competition frustrates Cartels
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SIRP officially opened the Adullam Drop-in Centre on the 11th day of October, 2016 and offered free medical services to the entire community. The programme is sponsored by UNODC. The occasion was graced DR. Chris Ugwu (Executive Director of SIRP), Mr. Ogbuefi Chukwuma Ogbonna (MD; ESBS Radio/Television, Enugu), the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Udenu Obollo Afor and other people from Enugu and the community, the staffs of Adullam Center.

SIRP using intergenerational dialogue approach to explain the health risks, physical and psychological harms of FGM to the girl child, most of the participants were convinced that it is a barbaric practice that must be put to an end because it’s a violation of human rights of girls and women. Awgu community through this programme supported by TGG has made a commitment to End FGM.
This programme was supported by The Girl Generation and facilitated by SIRP-Nigeria.

SIRP envisions a world in which every girl child everywhere cannot only realize their rights to physical, mental and well-being, but also achieve their potential, size opportunities and fully participate in sharping more inclusive, resilient prosperous and sustainable societies.

SIRP empowered girls at Sec. Sch. level on issues surrounding early marriage, menstrual hygiene, teenage pregnancy and reproductive health rights.

1. DFID (UK)

2. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

3. The Girl Generation (TGG)

4. RockFlower Fund

5. Global Fund

...etc

Its simply because people in the rural areas have little or no access to various social amenities like good roads, good schools, stable power supply, clean water, adequate sanitation facilities etc unlike those in the urban areas.

Also there are basically little or no access to jobs in the rural areas.

All this and many more are some of the reasons why we work in the various rural areas in Nigeria.

We are committed to promoting and protecting their rights first and foremost because the rights of various vulnerable groups are Human Rights. They have an inalienable right to have their voices heard and their rights respected

Secondly, promoting and protecting their rights is good business. Study has shown that any country where the rights of various vulnerable groups are respected, that such a country's GDP automatically increases.

Such is the power and benefit inherent in promoting and protecting the rights and interest of various vulnerable groups.