International Women's Day 2019

2019 Theme: Balance for Better

The future is exciting. Let's build a gender-balanced world. Everyone has a part to play - all the time, everywhere.
At Girls Invent we work tirelessly at helping achieve a gender-balanced world. We want all females, from birth to adults, to see their abilities, to reach for the stars, and be everything they can dream of.
So for International Women's Day 2019 we are celebrating women who have fought through adversity, battled the odds of gender, health and life, to become inspirations.

Nigerian Girls Escape Trafficking and Start Inventing

Girls Invent supports Nigerian girls who were profiled by SBS Dateline TV.
Joy from PIAM has this to say about the collaboration between Girls Invent and PIAM: "The main mission of PIAM is to support victims of trafficking, especially the ones exploited in prostitution. The 9 girls participating in the “Girl’s Invent” project are victims of trafficking who have decide to free themselves from the prostitution racket and start an integration project.
They come from different parts of Nigeria and they are aged 17 to 25 years. Most of them have been in Italy at least one year, but their real integration has been strongly compromised by the exploitative situation in which they were inserted.
Now, through the PIAM welcome project and the routes in which they are inserted, they have the chance to build a autonomous future untied from their past experiences. They have different levels of schooling but none of them got to high levels of education due to the economical situation they grew up in, but through the “Girl’s Invent” project and through the support of PIAM’s staff, they are getting to understand how they can actually “build” an idea despite their low schooling or the situations from which they have been conditioned. This is a good opportunity of empowerment and self-trust building which will, hopefully, lead them to a greater understanding of their skills and competences."

2019 Theme: Balance for Better

Nigerian Girls Escape Trafficking and Start Inventing

A Message from Marian Kwei