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Curbing Teenage Pregnancy Through Life-Skill Empowerment
by Inspire Community Network|16 May 2019|Girls empowerment, Icon Blog
In rural communities across Kogi State, Nigeria, 2 out of every 10 girls are pregnant before the age of 18 due to lack of proper sex education, extreme poverty, gender inequality and unemployment……
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ShoulderUp With Academy Award Winner Viola Davis and 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Phyllis Newhouse
by Inspire Community Network|23 August 2018|Icon Blog, Women Empowerment
Co-founded by Academy Award Winner Viola Davis and 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year Phyllis Newhouse, this new movement is dedicated to connecting and supporting women on their journey, to bring about change in their communities - where and when it...
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Author’s Talk 2018: The Art of Sanity
by Inspire Community Network|12 August 2018|Author's Talk, Icon Blog
Mental health is still a controversial topic in most part of the country and less conversations about it have resulted to unpleasant situations for not just writers, but for people directly and indirectly affected…
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International Day of the Girl Child 2017: Empower Girls
by Inspire Community Network|09 October 2017|Girls empowerment, Icon Blog
Volunteers, friends and supporters in the US, and coordinators across Africa supported the campaign by promoting the importance of gender equality and human rights for girls and women….
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Author’s Talk 2017: Unpacking Your Diversity Stories
by Inspire Community Network|05 August 2017|Author's Talk, Icon Blog
The writers, who came from across Nigeria had a dialogue on the effect of a single story, the interconnectedness in the different experiences of writers from different backgrounds, the challenges confronted by emerging voices…
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Author’s Talk 2016: Social Media for Literary Transformation
by Inspire Community Network|14 October 2016|Author's Talk, Icon Blog
Gone are the days when only published authors were read across the world, and in most cases, not all published writers received the same amount of readership. With the emergence of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter,...
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International Day of the Girl Child: The Power of One Book, One Girl
by Inspire Community Network|11 October 2016|Day of the girl child, Icon Blog
St Annes Girls School, located in Ibadan, the South-West region of Nigeria— and the largest city in West Africa, started in 1929 with an increasingly yearly enrollment of girls from diverse backgrounds, especially local communities across the city….
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Author’s Talk 2015: Writing, through the Perspective of an Unpublished Writer
by Inspire Community Network|07 August 2015|Author's Talk, Icon Blog
There is an estimate of 1.1 billion unpublished writers across the world, and more than a million unheard stories….
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