Girl-Child Education
Giving girls the space, information, mentorship and support to translate ambition into life chances.
Turning ambition into life chances
Girls in many communities in Nigeria are not lacking in ambition. What many of them lack, especially those from low-income or single-parent households, is structured space, trustworthy information, trained adult company, and the small material supports needed to translate ambition into life chances.
SBF-Community initiated girl-child education and empowerment programs, covering communication, menstrual and reproductive health, safeguarding, civic rights, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, leadership, digital safety, and psychosocial wellbeing, with content drawn from frameworks already familiar to Nigerian regulators.
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ARISE HER Project 2026
The SBF-Community ARISE HER Project 2026 is a structured girl-child education and empowerment project for secondary-school students in underserved communities and at risk of dropping out of school in Nigeria, aged 13–17 years.
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- Academic scholarships
- Life-skills development
- Career orientation
- Structured mentorship
- CSR collaboration
- Institutional sponsorships
We realise that adolescent girls in these communities are not, in the main, short of intelligence, ambition, or determination. What they often lack is structured space, trustworthy information, trained adult company, and modest material support to translate those qualities into life chances.
Consequently, SBF-Community initiated this girl-child education and empowerment programme, covering communication, menstrual and reproductive health, safeguarding, civic rights, financial literacy, entrepreneurship, leadership, digital safety, and psychosocial wellbeing, with content drawn from frameworks already familiar to Nigerian regulators.
The programme is designed to supply each of those, and to do so in a way that respects the wider environments (familial, religious, economic and civic) in which the girls already live.
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World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2026
In commemoration of International Menstrual Hygiene Day 2026, and in line with the ARISE HER Project’s 5th Pillar Agenda centred on girl-child reproductive health, SBF-Community collaborated with the Christy Agim Initiative to visit four secondary schools within Owerri, including two female hostels at Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo State.
The programme enlightened girl-children about the menstrual period and cycle, and how to maintain a healthy lifestyle during and after menstruation, alongside the distribution of free sanitary pads.