Nurturer takes awareness against emotional abuse to schools

Nurturer a non- governmental organisaton (NGO)holds the first edition of Hope Beyond Abuse at the Reagan Memorial Baptist Girls Secondary School on recently in Lagos with the theme ‘Conquering emotional abuse at the home front’.

The event which took place 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.

Speaking at the event, Folashade Ayeni, founder Nurturer said the Hope Beyond Abuse is one of the dual pivot scheme of the agency, and 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, stating that if awareness is made to reach the potential victim or abuser, we would be raising an army of great adults,” she said.

ANTHONIA OBOKOH