Signature Initiative

The Padded Girl Program

Addressing reproductive health, body safety, and dismantle-rape-culture awareness in Nigerian schools.

DE-STIGMATIZING MENSTRUAL DEVELOPMENT, DISMANTLES RAPE CULTURE

For World Menstrual Health Day 2026, celebrated annually on the 28th of May, EmpowHer Choices Juvenile Abuse Prevention Initiative (ECJAPI) located in TCNN Bukuru, did a week-long awareness campaign in schools, concluding with an impactful summit at Hope High Academy, Zawan.

Led by Founder Ms. Jennifer Nikurai Maton alongside Ms. Felicia Samson (Med Lab Scientist, Plateau Specialist Hospital, representing The Vulnerable and Abused Intervention Initiative - TVAII), the team addressed core, intersecting issues that directly impact young teenagers' wellbeing.

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Intertwined Topics Addressed

Menstrual education is about empowerment, confidence, safety, and self-protection.

Menstrual & Biological Health

Educating girls on menstrual hygiene and reproductive health issues, including PCOS (now PMOS) and Endometriosis.

Consent & Setting Boundaries

Providing crucial training on consent, personal boundaries, emotional manipulation, and peer pressure.

Sex & Mental Health

Addressing the intersection of reproductive health, emotional safety, confidence, and overall mental wellbeing.

Safety & Abuse Prevention

Empowering young people with the awareness they need to protect themselves from exploitation and abuse.

Voices from the Field

Partner organizations and educators sharing insights on the outreach program.

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We will like our teenagers and young adults to know how to identify, cultivate and develop friendships that are anchored on respect, trust, honesty and kindness, establishing and keeping boundaries. While also highlighting warning signs of unhealthy relationships like control, pressure and disrespect.

We emphasized that menstrual education is also about empowerment and safety. Students learned about consent, personal boundaries, emotional manipulation, peer pressure, and how awareness can help young people protect themselves from exploitation and abuse.

Mr. Kabiru Dauda

Director, Let's Grow Together initiative (LGTI)

NGO for Boy Child Grassroot Development

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This seminar provided students with practical biological health knowledge that is rarely discussed openly. It created a safe space for learning, asking questions, and addressing issues that directly affect students' wellbeing, confidence, and academic participation. The staff & students alike were enlightened.