GETTY'S GIRLS' ASPIRATION HIGHLIGHTS..

Getty’s girls’ fortress is an initiative founded to help the girl child and all her struggles, afflictions and help elevate her strengths. This initiative aspires to serve, protect, elevate and strengthen the girl child. We believe the girl child isn’t weak or fragile like most NGOs and other organizations have publicized in order to get funds.

The girl child is maltreated and afflicted in so many areas of her life but she never gives up. She never lets that keep her from dreaming big, being ambitious or break her spirit. The girl child is the mother of tomorrow and she needs moral support as much as she needs the rudimentary tools to enable her grow up into a woman of substance and that’s where GGFI comes in.

We strive to bring all the girl child problems, struggles and all the heinous crimes to light. We aspire to protect them and provide them with resources that will help them fight back or prevent  most of the situations that victimize and stigmatize them….there are some well known situations that have plagued the girl child for centuries and others are cultural or religiously related.

 GGFI is an intiative that is cultivated on outreach programmes so as to be accessible to the girl child nationwide then later spread internationally. We have partnerships with several orphanages currently and we are hoping to grow our partnerships al over so as to be able to touch and be lease of hope to girls all over the country and some day globally. Because its not only the girl child that needs enlightenment on handling her plight but her care givers and very many other people around the world that are mostly ignorant. So we strive to educate everyone out there both male and female. Not just to paint the child as fragile or weak. Although she is, stigmatizing her with it or giving everyone ammunition to walk all over doesn’t work in her interests. Its time that picture gets painted afresh.

The girl child being portrayed as weak and defenceless is what gives the crimes against them and the culprits power while making them appear like it’s the girl child’s fault that she is victimized. GGFI aspires to enlighten the girl child that as much as women have been stigmatized as the weaker sex it doesn’t mean they should fold their arms and sit feeling sorry for themselves when they can eradicate ignorance with us and fight back with education to end the victimization and stigmatization as long as they are knowledgeable and have the foresight on how to go about it.

The girl child not only needs educational institutions to provide them with the necessary tools they need to elevate and strengthen them. We are looking to actually make use of the counselors in this country though having them volunteer is an issue. There are students majoring in psychology that can also intern or do it as a community service to get extra credit for their grades but we’ll have to get in touch with the campuses to offer that so that we enrich both the afflicted and the volunteers and that way we wouldn’t run out of counselors or psychologists that the girl child definitely require to have well-rounded growth both mentally and physically.

There is hope that I the near future we would be able to loan money to the girls that have grown into women under our supervision and need to start their lives or families on their own. They can use the money to start up a business according to their strengths or help them move in somewhere else if they get employment before their actual salary starts coming in. Where they would have to pay back ofcourse with some type of percentage to keep generating revenue for the running of the NGO and support the other girls working on success and independence like them.