tpia.:


gbam.

I've lived in the village though and I still couldnt complain beyond the fact that its quieter, less electricity and fewer people.

But I dont compare the two (village and city) because they're not the same. Village is village and city is city.

However, unlike most Yoruba nairalanders, my own village was clean, neat and we didnt have a sanitation problem.

So I guess I'm just special and didnt experience what was common to the majority. My grandma kept a neat house.

http://messagecom./2007/12/10/tampax-aid-to-african-girls-profit-vs-altruism/


Tampax aid to African girls – profit vs. altruism

Prior to my workshop, I attended a girls caucus session and was blown away by two young women from Kenya who spoke about the very issue Tampax is seeking to address.

One of the young women presented the fact that many girls miss an average of one school week per month due to menstruation and the lack of affordable sanitary supplies. A month’s supply, she reported, cost $2.00 and the average family subsisted on only $1.00 per month.

The young woman was part of a grass roots initiative to distribute reusable, cotton pads. The other young Kenyan woman challenged this initiative stating that water was so precious in her village, that using it to wash out a used pad was preposterous. As the debate raged on about how to tackle this problem, I began to feel sheepish about my upcoming workshop topic, fearing it would seem abstract and esoteric in comparison.

It was eye-opening to hear that something as basic as the lack of a hygiene product meant that on average, girls missed a month of school per year and that by high school they began to fall behind their male counter parts as the result.

Environmental blogger Deanna Duke, while channel-surfing five weeks ago, happened upon a commercial for Always pads. It showed a sad-looking African girl who couldn’t go to school during her period because she didn’t have “feminine protection”. Thanks to a new $1.4-million campaign by Procter & Gamble, the ad explained, her village was receiving disposable pads so she and other girls could go to school.

“There was something that didn’t sit right with me,” Duke told the Straight in a phone interview from Seattle on March 11. “It struck me, what was the environmental impact of doing this? What do they do with all these things?…And what happens in five years [after the girls graduate]?”

Duke asked her readers if anyone would be interested in sewing reusable pads to send to African girls as an alternative to P & G’s campaign. That’s how her new charity, goods4girls.org, came about. It’s working with Vancouver-based Lunapads, a five-woman collective that makes reusable pads and has been donating kits to African girls for more than five years.

http://www.straight.com/article-135772/pads-save-or-trash-africa

A Not-So-Simple Plan to Keep African Girls in School

THEY call it the Map of Africa.

It is a cute name for an acute problem: the stains that African girls often endure when they are menstruating and the rags or camel's skin they use for protection fail. ''Girls who can't manage their period stay home, and that is affecting their education,'' said Michelle J. Vaeth, communications director for FemCare, the Procter & Gamble unit that makes Always pads and Tampax tampons.


So FemCare is tackling the problem head-on. In March, it inaugurated Protecting Futures, a program to first build bathrooms, then educate teachers and finally distribute free pads, in hopes of keeping African girls in school.

Protecting Futures is not FemCare's first foray into Africa. For two years, it has been working with the Girl Child Network, a nonprofit, to give its pads to schoolgirls in Kenya, and it is compiling data to quantify the effect that the program has had on attendance.

Yet skeptics abound. Esther Duflo, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that absentee rates are the same for boys and girls in much of Africa, and that programs like providing free uniforms and books seem to increase attendance. ''What's keeping children from school is the costs of attending,'' she said.

But studies by the Forum for African Women Educationalists, a nongovernmental organization, seem to support FemCare's hypothesis.

''Girls will stay home rather than be embarrassed,'' said Faith Macharia, the national director of the forum's Kenya chapter. She said the studies showed that ''cumulatively, they can lose a whole month of schooling each year.''

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E6DB1630F931A25752C1A9619C8B63

FL Gators:

Thank you jare.

Even my village now has been modernized. Electricity (maybe not constant) is spreading and roads are being built. The village sef dey try, compared to some dirty part of Lagos.

TheSeeker:

Yes, I used those two locations because I wanted to take an example from Osun state. Of course there are lots of other places dirtier than those places I mentioned, even in other states but that's not the issue here. I see it sometimes as not being dirty but somewhat an action that speaks it. To me, when you hoard goats and sheep, you'd have a shelter for them different from where humans sleep. Some people go as far as letting this animals sleep in the same house with residents at very close proximity -- I find that a dirty act as well as lack of proper orientated healthy living.

If I'm talking about Yoruba now, I'm not referring to macro-towns and larger cities. I am referring to places where they have less exposure down to villages. They might not regard it as dirtiness but they are all acted. People constructing toilets close to where they fetch water sounds dirty to me. Dung hills located close to people's house and a lot more are acts of dirtiness. I wouldn't straight-call it dirtiness but just lack of orientation. I do believe if there's enough sensitization there'd be changes and seems the government have been doing a wonderful work in that area; that some of these places are beginning to look transformed.

Overall, I don't think Yoruba are the dirtiest -- they do have very irritating dirty traits that's being exhibited but that's not to say they are the dirtiest. It's different for those of us who were raised outside these villages as we can't see these things unless we go on a hunt into these places and see what's up. In my opinion, Hausa are the dirtiest. Houseflies are their friends 

amosexy:

E ku ile / e kale oo eyin omo iya mi _{nt ekiti ppl ooo}

@ Gators

Aunti mi gators abi koyin abi seni abi toyin abi teni ni oruko yin ?
Ewo e so ara yin ooo,mi o like bi e se fi oko bu mi oo
mo ma nke gan ni ti eniyan ba fi oko bu mi
Olorun seun oga seeker get back mi lale ana

amosexy:

@ gator

Ok mi o binu mo bebe

Abi oga seeker sha gave u 3-0 last 9t n u were screaming for Ifeleke to come and save u, ahahahahah Osun ppl are alwaz winning .

FL Gators:

LOL, gave me kini?
We didnt get to that level lastnight

Like you said, he was busy backing you. No wonder you're glowing today

amosexy:

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Oh God save me from NL ppl ooo, u guyz can twist ppl words jesu !!
Dat was how i said i hung out with a guys, Evrybdy said i was cheating on my boy.
Oro gbogbo yin ti su mi oooo

Auntmi gators gat my backk = gbeja mi
Oni yeye ni e gators

amosexy:

U avnt started ke ? this nite again !! mo ti daran ooo.
I wan take gud body sleep this 9t oo,so plz dont start.
Ohh start sef who cares , i know wat to do
Do u know map of Ado-ekiti ? i'm nt sure
If u start anything with me dis 9t,I will invite becomrich to come and draw ur map nao .

FL Gators:

Tell your girl to leave me oh.
I can play but its not necessary for someone to get hurt while playing.
So I don dey step out of the thread until things get back in order again

TheSeeker:

Is it that serious? C'mon. OK, bring up a topic and let's talk about it --- I know you got something up your beautiful brains. . . . . let's go

FL Gators:

What I want to know, you won't be able to tell me without being bias.
I want str8 facts without biased opinions

TheSeeker:

Sweetie, I'm not biased unless I'm pulling legs. I'm always very direct. Ask me whatever it is, I will tell you the best I know.

TheSeeker:

Ekitis are accommodating, nice and friendly. But you have to hand them the "secretive awards". They are the astrologic scorpio when it comes to being secretive. They believe in revenge but they are very nice. Almost half of Ekiti are Londoners.

FL Gators:

Hmm interesting. Those are biased opinions, but am not complaining

As for revenge, negative.

That's it? Nothing about the culture, geography, etc?

TheSeeker:

What's bias about my comment? I'm just saying what I've been able to associate with the Ekitis I know so far -- in person

FL Gators:

Ok, gotz you.

But I also asked if you know anything about the culture, geography, language, people etc

Thanks, you're such a great help

FL Gators:

Oga Remilekun, ki lo n pa yin lerin?