Meet our third guest: Esther Ijewere
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Esther Ijewere is an enterprising social activist, youth advocate, Columnist, Author and the founder of Rubies Ink Initiative for Women and Children - A Non-profit outfit devoted to youth advocacy, development and social enterprise solutions amongst others.
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An Olabisi Onabanjo University trained Sociologist. As a social advocate, she is the brain behind W.A.R-Walk Against Rape, an advocacy initiative created to lend a voice for the victims of rape and demand justice for the perpetrator's.
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As a follow up plan for the campaign, Esther’s organization organizes Rape sensitizing workshops in different secondary schools across the country tagged; College Acquaintance Rape Education (C.A.R.E), in partnership with the Lagos state Ministry of Justice and the Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT).
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Esther is also the initiator of Project Capable; a Lagos State Ministry of Education approved programme which is a youth mentoring initiative geared towards creating a can do mentality in the lives of secondary school students, it comes up annually, using celebs and accomplished individuals to inspire and motivate youngsters to rise to greatness.
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She is a Fellow with Vital Voices Global Leadership USA; an organisaton aimed at empowering young women change makers all over the world. She unveiled her first book on rape and violence against women, titled “Breaking the Silence ”.
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The book which is a guide to enlightening young women on knowledge needed to survive sexual situations. So far, it has helped to create an avenue for people to come out without feeling bad or fear being stigmatized to tell their stories.
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Esther Ijewere is also a columnist with the Guardian Newspaper, her page “ Women of Rubies” a platform used to celebrate exceptional women with inspiring stories, the page is a sequel to her award winning blog www.womenofrubies.com, which is fast becoming the one stop blog for the everyday woman.
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Join Esther Ijewere on our platform this evening to discuss "Women in Non-traditional Careers". 5pm GMT+1
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