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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
MAD warns NAPTIP against bungling trial of alleged rapist
Photo above: Ijato Ugbagwu, Director of Child Care, Make A Difference Initiative. A human rights and good governance advocacy group – Make A Difference Initiative (MAD) has issued warning to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP)...
Just Before the Creation of State Police, By Lemmy Ughegbe
…all hands must be on deck and we should not just jump towards the creation of state police, but we should consciously and meticulously commit all stakeholders to attaining a national consensus for its creation, while eliciting commitments from all and sundry thereof...
MAD Demands Dismissal Of Service Chiefs Over Slain Soldiers
Make A Difference Initiative (MAD), a non-governmental organization has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss Nigeria’s current service chiefs, following the killing of scores of soldiers by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. Executive Director of MAD, Lemmy...
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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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