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One of our 5-point agenda is self-actualisation – helping vulnerable children to discover their purpose.

One of our 5-point agenda is self-actualisation – helping vulnerable children to discover their purpose.
Esau and Jacob are identical twins, students of GSS Yangoji. They are on TACF scholarship. Their team is participating in an FCT soccer competition for schools. Yesterday, they played against GSS Garki and won 3-2, qualifying for the quarter finals

TACF COMMEMORATES THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD 2019

TACF COMMEMORATES THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD 2019
In 2014, Wasila Tasi’u, 14-year old child bride was arraigned for the murder of her 35-year old ‘husband’. The outcry of the international and human rights communities led to her acquittal in 2015.
Out-of-school girls in Nigeria are about 7.92m, equivalent of the combined population of Sierra Leone, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau. Nigeria is home to the highest number of child brides in Africa, according to UNICEF.
Globally, October 11 of every year is declared as the International Day of the Girl Child, to celebrate every female child. At The Adekunle Child Foundation (TACF), we use the occasion to draw attention to their cause by commemorating the event every year. We held the event this year at the Junior Secondary School, Garki Abuja. Theme for this year is “GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable”.
Thanks to the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Sisters, Wives & Mothers (SWiM) and the press.
Thanks to Author Francis Ajilore who made available copies of his highly motivational piece, “MAKE THE MOST OF IT”, for donation to the girls.
The girl child is indeed vulnerable. Let’s spare a thought for her.

TACF/SWIM’s Beryl Girls Club of JSS, Garki Abuja

It was a great pleasure to host Brenda Effiom of Brencare Foundation to talk to the TACF/SWIM’s Beryl Girls Club of JSS, Garki Abuja
about Menstrual Health Hygiene. And to the awesome ladies who sacrificed their time to impact the girls – Nike Adekunle, Olayemi Olukoju Akanmode and Chimdinma Emma Odunze, a big thank you. The girls had fun and are so grateful, already asking you guys to come back. Indeed, “Girls are pearls, ladies are rubies, mothers are moulders, and women are wonderful” – Ifeanyi Onuoha

International Day of the Girl Child

International Day of the Girl Child – October 11
EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING OF THE GIRL CHILD AS HUMAN RIGHT
This time last year, it was the International Day of the Girl Child and THE ADEKUNLE CHILD FOUNDATION (TACF) commemorated it with a lecture organised for girls of a public Junior Secondary School in the city of Abuja. We partnered with the pragmatic African Women Lawyers’ Association (AWLA) and Sisters, Wives and Mothers (SWiM), a women-led NGO on the cutting edge. Theme for 2017 was Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030. The event was such an eye opener. The girls were given an opportunity to open up to the women on their various issues. And they did! Many of them were going through various abuses – sexual molestation, indecent assault, domestic abuse etc, the festering sores of which were concealed under their flowing, faded uniforms.
Educational Psychologists have since the mid 20th century, identified 3 main domains of learning i.e. the cognitive (mental skills), the affective (feelings, emotional) and the psychomotor (physical skills). Educational curricula globally are generally defective in that they place the least emphasis on the affective. The educational system shoves loads and tons of literature and formulas down the throats of poor students who are psychologically detached from the classroom as a result of unhealed emotional wounds, and no one cares. From statistics, the girl is more vulnerable. Worse still, they are rated brilliant or dull at the end of the term, with a cognitive-only-assessment that is based on so warped a scorecard.
At TACF, we are of the opinion that an educational system that parades a curriculum that is imbalanced and less than foursquare, is an infringement of the child’s human right. With our experience from last year’s event, we are determined to provide an intervention and make a difference. It is therefore our resolve to launch a Girls’ Club at one of the Junior Secondary Schools in Abuja. It will be a platform where the girls will be provided with therapy, counselling, empowerment, motivation and many more, a platform where they will socialise, heal and learn.
Is this what government should do? yes it is. Shall we wait for the government? No we won’t. At TACF, this is our gift to them on the International Day of the Girl Child 2018.
 
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Scholarship for Samson and Charity

Samson and Charity are intelligent twins whose parents, after completing their Senior Secondary School, were unable to pay for their JAMB ans SSCE Examinations.
TACF’s attention was brought to their plight and we paid for their JAMB and SSCE Examinations. We look forward to their University Education.

Children’s day

Sunday 27th of May 2018 was Children’s day and #TACF celebrated it in a very special way. In partnership with #UBBAHARRIS REACH OUT FOUNDATION and #GAZELLA FOUNDATION, we went to the #TudunWada Community in Bwari and had fun with the children dear. Ofcourse we didn’t go empty handed. Over #700 children were fed, drinks and cake was also shared, exercise books and pens for the students and the older women were not left out as they were given packs of uncooked rice. It was definitely an impactful outing and we had fun doing it.
Once again, TACF is saying HAPPY CHILDREN’S DAY to all the beautiful children out there.

BIZARRE

The news below was one of the eye-catching news of the week, widely reported in the newspapers.
A 6-year old girl thrown into the well for allegedly being a witch. This is not just the zenith of wickedness, it is simply bizarre. It is sad that there are so many ‘parents’ out there who do not deserve to have children. they simply have no clue what to do with them. They exist right in our communities, some, our next-door neighbours. For a man like the one in this story, it is highly probable that he has been exhibiting traits of wickedness leading to this reprehensible abuse of his daughter. hence it is the duty of all in the community to watch out for any child that shows the slightest sign of abuse and torture and come to their rescue.
TACF hopes the law will take its full course.
Chimdinma Emma Odunze
Tunde Elijah Kelani
Akinbisola Stephen Akinkunle
Ogunade Christopher Adekunle

TACF CHILD ADVOCACY INITIATIVE – REPRIEVE FOR REJOICE DANIEL

TACF CHILD ADVOCACY INITIATIVE – REPRIEVE FOR REJOICE DANIEL
Sometime in December 2017, the Foundation was alerted about the plight of a teenager who was in need of legal intervention. It is the case of Rejoice Daniel. Rejoice who does not live with her parents as a result of poverty puts up with some girls somewhere in Gwarimpa, a vast settlement in Abuja, with the responsibility of fending for herself.
Rejoice was arrested by the Police with other girls on charges of theft. The case against them was that they had conspired to steal large sums of money belonging to a woman with whom one of the girls was an apprentice. She was released on bail by the Police having been suretied by a good samaritan from the church she attends. Subsequent to her release on bail, criminal charges were preferred against the girls, including Rejoice. Her case was precarious because she had no legal representation as she could not afford one.
TACF decided to take up her case as she risked the danger of being remanded in prison custody without trial, which is a distressing feature of the criminal justice system in Nigeria. On the 5th day of December, 2017, which was her day of arraignment at the Rea Court, Dei Dei, FCT, TACF’s Counsel, Prince Amaechi Esq. was in court to provide her legal representation and ensure that justice was not only done, but was seen to be done. At the end of the proceedings, Rejoice was discharged and acquitted and saved the horror of being thrown into Kuje Prison.
There are many children in detentions and prison custodies across the nation who have no access to legal representation and whose future is in jeopardy as a result. The statistics confirm this. One of the items on TACF’s 5-point agenda is Child Advocacy. We shall continue to vociferously advocate for the rights of the child with a view to providing them with the promising future that they deserve.

The International Day of disabled persons

According to the World Bank OVC Toolkit, a vulnerable child is defined as one under the age of 18 years and currently at high risk of lacking adequate care and protection. However, even where the child has the utmost care and protection, he is still vulnerable by the simple reason of his being a child. There is however a class of children whose vulnerability is heightened as a result of physiological conditions over which they lack control – they are the children living with disability. Their condition is more apalling in the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa where policies spare little or no thought for them. It is the International Day of Disabled Persons and for children out there living with disability, The Adekunle Child Foundation remembers them and inspires hope. # SpareaThoughtfortheVulnerableChild .

The International Day of the Girl Child

The International Day of the Girl Child is usually marked on the 11th day of October every year. As part of our activities to mark the International Day of the Girl Child, The Adekunle Child Foundation (TACF) decided to hold a Public Lecture to commemorate the Day on 12th October, 2017. Theme for 2017 was Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030.
TACF worked with Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB), Abuja, the African Women Lawyers’ Association (Abuja Branch), Sisters, Wives and Mothers (SWiM), an NGO dedicated to women and girls’ empowerment and Inspirational Parenting Network (IPaN), a body dedicated to enlightening and empowering parents.
The women spoke to over 175 adolescent girls from primary and secondary schools in Garki, Abuja. It was an impactful event. The girls were excited. They asked questions. They were given various gifts. The eye-opener was the one-on-one sessions the girls had with the women. They opened up on the various abuses they were exposed to and they were offered solutions through counselling sessions.
The girl child is vulnerable and endangered. We must stand up for her and give her a voice.