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About Make A Difference Initiative
Make a difference initiative
We engage an all-inclusive participatory communication and advocacy strategy through a Social Behavior Change Communication in seeking social justice, end to sexual and gender-based violence, and the empowerment of women and the creation of safe spaces for children.
MEN AGAINST RAPE
The message must be LOUD and CLEAR that all women are entitled to the freedom of choice and any act that takes away their freedom to choose whether or not they wish to engage in a sexual activity is tantamount to rape.
STAND WITH OVER 40 MILLION MEN AGAINST RAPE.
MEN AGAINST RAPE
The message must be LOUD and CLEAR that all women are entitled to the freedom of choice and any act that takes away their freedom to choose whether or not they wish to engage in a sexual activity is tantamount to rape.
STAND WITH OVER 40 MILLION MEN AGAINST RAPE.
Make A Difference Initiative Focus Areas
The Rights of Women and Gender-Related Matters
Child Rights
Human Rights Defenders
Good governance & accountability.
Freedom of Religion or Belief and Peaceful Assembly
We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something About It
Make A Difference Initiative launched a – one week campaign against rape in Abuja in the month of June, 2020
Wanda Ebe, founder of Wanda Adu Foundation & Lemmy Ughegbe, Founder of Make A Difference Initiative at the Unity Fountain in Abuja in June 2020 during a protest over the rising cases of rape in Nigeria.
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MADI RALLIES
#justice4keren
Rally organised by a coalition of Gender Based Violence Responders led by the E.D, Men Against Rape Foundation to demand #justice4keren, a – 14 year student of Premiere Academy, Lugbe, Abuja, who was raped and got infected by some properties of the condom left in her, causing her to contract sepsis, resulting in her death on 22nd of June 2021.
VIDEO LIBRARY
Founder of M.A.D decries stigmatization of rape victims
Executive Director of M.A.D, Lemmy Ughegbe speaks on corruption at the Federal Ministry of Health where monies meant for 2nd and 3rd line HIV drugs have disappeared including funds for test kits for PMTCT that the World Bank gave the ministry under the Save One Million Lives Programme .
Lemmy Ughegbe Seeks End to Child Sexual Abuse and Justice For Ochanya
Lemmy Ughegbe Cautions Nigeria’s National Assembly on Infectious Disease Bill
News and features
M.A.D lauds Ogun judge on life sentence for rapist
A human rights and good governance advocacy group – Make A Difference Initiative (MAD) has applauded a Judge of Ogun State High Court, Justice Abiodun Akinyemi for imposing a life sentence on a – 35 year old man, Adekunle Olalere for raping a – 2 year baby. In a...
MAD warns police against protecting child rapists
… Demands Re-arrest of Rivers Chief who raped 14 year old girl Make A Difference Initiative (MAD) has decried the abuse of authority by the Nigerian Police with regards to negotiating an out-of-court settlement on behalf of paedophiles with family of child victims of...
Rape to death of 13-year-old: Family cries out over threat to life, seeks UN support, by John Ameh
L-R: Mr. Lemmy Ughegbe, Executive Director of Make A Difference Initiative; Dr. Ngozi Adzodoh, President, FGGC Gboko Old Girls Association and Mr. Ameh Ejekwonyilo, late Ochanya’s eldest brother at the press conference in Abuja. The family of 13-year-old girl, Ochanya...
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S.C.R.E.A.M
Advocacy Against All Forms OF Discrimination And Violence
Theme: Understanding the implications and complications o rape, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.
Date: July 12, 2020
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