Every day over 8 million girls menstruate, however, 80% of these girls are unable to meet their full potential because of either lack of menstrual necessities or stigma. This generation of girls are quite fortunate to have menstrual necessities like sanitary pads and tampons available, the issue is that it is not accessible to all.…
Scrolling through my Facebook timeline, looking for news and other information going on across the globe, I chanced on an article on myjoyonline.com with the title that suggests Streetism has now become a lucrative business. To say I was disgusted by what I found out after clicking on the link will be an understatement. I…
On the street, there is only one code name; violence. It’s the key for survival, whiles others work to acquire their wealth, the street waits patiently to acquire it in violence. That is the reason why we’re all careful when walking on the streets, we blame them for taking what does not belong to them…
Children are the most independent beings on earth. At this stage of their life, their only responsibility is to learn what they are taught while adults take up the responsibility of providing for them. In the case of street children, there is a twist, they are rather the providers mostly from poor families tasked to…
Life will give back to us whatever we’ve instilled in our children. We cannot reap what we haven’t sown. We are busy building all our children and ignoring street children, at the end the impact we’ve made in their lives would repay us. Every great personality in our societies was once a child, some without…
Life has a way of giving everyone a second chance to our mistakes. Most of us have risen by the constant correction of the things we did wrong so that our lives would move in the right direction. When it comes to the issues of street children, we’ve not done much. We complain of our…
