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Victor Ugoo Njoku @UgooNjoku
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In 2015, Olivia Onyemaobi raised a campaign against sexual abuse. She found out that some girls get abused by men who offer to help them get sanitary pads. To solve the problem, she started @PadupC
In Nigeria, some girls sometimes stay out of school during their menstrual cycle because they can’t afford sanitary pads. While some others use tissue, dry grasses, leaves and rags during their menstrual cycle. Just because they can not afford sanitary pads. #Thread
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Some men cash in on this, by abusing young girls sexually just to provide them sanitary pads. @PadupC makes affordable, washable and reusable sanitary pads. Pad-Up menstrual kits are super thin with high absorption rate. #VUNBlog #VictorUgooNjokuBlog #womenshealth #lifestyle
They are breathable, yet leak proof and has snaps that fasten beneath the pants. These pads can be used for one year and have product validity of 3 years. Pad-Up Creations have distributed over 1 million kits in 13 African Countries. #sanitarypads #reusable #girls #girlchild
And have created 93 jobs and over 15,000 businesses for her distributors. With Vision 50 in 5, Pad-up Creations hope to reach 50 million African girls and women in 5 years. Olivia Onyemaobi, the CEO of Pad-up Creations had to quit her secure job to run @PadupC #ecofriendly
She is a beneficiary of the @TonyElumeluFDN #TonyElumeluFoundationFunds In this exclusive interview, she led us into the idea of making reusable sanitary pads came about; how the pad is #ecofriendly, #hygenic and #safe for users; the challenges of doing #business in #Nigeria
She also talked about quitting her #job and ended with an advice for young #entrepreneurs @duchesskk @DrOlufunmilayo @PadupC victornjoku.com.ng/blog/2018/11/1…
#GiveAGirlChildAPad #GirlChild #Nigeria #VUNBlog #VictorUgooNjokuBlog
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@BoleMataz is a brand set to revolutionise how bole is sold in Nigeria. Bolemataz is an environment-conscious brand.

As popular as bole is in Nigeria, it’s sold and served differently, in different parts of Nigeria. In the Eastern part of Nigeria, it’s mostly served with beans.
In the West, #bole is served or eaten alongside groundnut. In South-South, it’s served with some oil or peppery sauce alongside some “badass” (for lack of a better word to describe the taste of the) roasted fish. #VUNBlog #VictorUgooNjokuBlog #lifestyle #Nigeria #Trends #Thread
Roadside sellers of bole sell in takeaway packs or wrapped in some old newspaper. Not @BoleMataz Bolemataz has decided to give some prestige to the way they sell and package bole. #trendsofnigeria #lunch #food #Nigeriafood #Africa #ecofriendly #eatclean
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It’s time for #SurvivingRKelly NOW on @lifetimetv. Retweet if you’re watching!
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1/ The Catholic Church for years shuffled @TheJesuits priests accused of sexual abuse in and out of Native communities.

A new trove of internal documents shows how they hid this abuse. And sent many of them to retire in a house on the @GonazagaU campus. revealnews.org/article/these-…
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That abuser, Boudreau said, was James Poole.
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To all who have been circulating the letter written to the media that exposes the experienced systemic culture of #sexual harassment in @BFMradio, you need to stop and check the impact of your actions

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@BFMradio :: The letter is addressed to members of the media. Not to members of the public. Regardless of good intention, fwding the letter to those other than intended reader is to violate the writer’s agency. If you want to help, don't start by disregarding what the writer intends.
@BFMradio The writer is already aware of the high cost s/he may face for disclosing this. Exposing wrongful power practices - and sexual harassment is a form of wrongful practice of power - is always risky.
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10 THINGS MEN CAN DO TO PREVENT GENDER VIOLENCE @threadreaderapp 1. Approach sexual harassment & forms of #gender #violence as a MEN’S issue involving men of all ages & socioeconomic, racial/ ethnic backgrounds. View men not only as possible offenders, but as empowered bystanders
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3. HAVE THE COURAGE TO LOOK INWARD
Question your own attitudes. Don’t be defensive when something you do or say ends up hurting someone else. Try hard to understand how your own attitudes & actions might inadvertently perpetuate sexism and violence, & work towards changing them.
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1) @SaRaAshcraft or @FionaBa47662575 maybe someone can give me some insight. I recently was talking to my sister, shes the one who got me studying #SRA and the possibility of it influencing our past
2) she told me about an incident she had recently remembered after moving out of the house at 16 and having gotten a new phone # that nobody had.
3) shortly after getting this new number she started getting strange calls. A man with an evil intonation would call and harass her, call her terrible names. She had only recently remembered this happening, but at the time it was terrifying.
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