GlobalGiving Partners With Save Our Needy To Provide Clean Water and Toilets In Disadvantaged Schools

UNICEF states that 50 million Nigerians do not have access to toilets hence resort to open defecation. The need for better sanitation in Nigeria is clear.

Poor sanitation is the leading cause of child illness and death. Diseases like cholera, diarrhea and Ebola are contracted due to poor hygiene.

Access to clean toilets and water can help save millions of children from dying.

Support Save Our Needy to build school toilets and provide clean water in low-income schools. The pupils of Abiodun Nursery and Primary School, Mushin, Lagos, deserve to study in a more hygienic environment so that they can thrive. The situation is dire. The school not only needs to be rehabilitated, three schools located in the same complex comprising more than 1,000 pupils are forced to use the same make-shift toilet facility having no door with just provision for urinating and not defecating.

Please check this link to donate: https://goto.gg/23476

You can also check our website: www.saveourneedy.org

THANK YOU!

10 FACTS TO SHOW POVERTY IS SEXIST

It is incredibly difficult to be a woman living in some of the poorest parts of the world. The report below shows that poverty indeed has a female face:

1. UNAIDS estimates that by fast-tracking investments between now and 2020, nearly 21 million deaths from HIV/AIDS and 28 million new HIV infections could be averted over the next 14 years.

2. At current rates of progress, women in sub-Saharan Africa will have to wait more than 160 years before they have the same chances as women in rich countries of their babies being born alive.

3. In sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls spend roughly 40 billion hours a year collecting water—the equivalent of a year’s worth of labor by the entire workforce in France.

4. Of all maternal deaths, 99 percent occur in developing countries.

5.In many sub-Saharan African countries, more than half of young women report not having a final say in critical healthcare choices. 

6. Globally, 120 million girls are raped or sexually attacked by the age of 20.

7. In sub-Saharan Africa, 45 percent fewer women than men have access to the Internet.

8. If an additional 600 million women and girls gained access to the Internet in the next three years, GDP across 144 developing countries could be boosted by up to $13-18 billion!

9. Of all still-births that happen in the world, 98 percent happen in low- and middle-income countries.

10. Half a billion women couldn’t read this list.

Do you need any more reasons to convince you that Poverty Is Sexist? Spread the word! Visit www.one.org to sign the petition and make life worth living for millions of marginalized women and girls. We must do all we can to ensure Poverty Is Made History. #PovertyIisSexist
 

   

Empowering Women To Build Nations

Yesterday, March 8th, was International Women's Day. Every year, it is celebrated all over the world marked by an incredible range of activities, events, projects and traditions.

The meaning of this day is as diverse as the individuals and groups who mobilize around it. Activities range from celebration, to call for action, demonstrations, marches, recognition of inspirational women, reflections on past struggles and achievements, plans for goals to accomplish in the future...

Save Our Needy celebrates the millions of women around the world who are making incredible contributions to global development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) cannot be achieved by 2030 if women are not empowered. SON theme this year for Women's Day is: ''Empowering Women To Build Nations.''

When women and girls can exercise their rights and live in good health and dignity, their families, communities and nations will prosper. Today, it is a known fact that women are the backbone of the rural economy particularly in Africa.

Early/forced marriage, violence against women and girls, gender inequality, human trafficking and female genital mutilation are some of the very important issues that need to be tackled if women are to contribute wholesomely to nation building and economic development.

Supporting women and girls is not just about good governance, it is also about smart development.

Happy #IWD2016!!!