Education

Education according to Wikipedia is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits. In my own definition education is facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habit not necessarily from the four corners of a room. I.e university, collages and high schools. Also education brings awareness, empowerment, opportunities when being harnessed In the world today statistics has shows that in Africa there is a high level of adolescent girls/ ladies that are uneducated.

This high level of lack of education among teenage girls has lead to most if not all of the problems of a girl child. These problems includes

1. Female child abuse. Research shows that a girl child is prone to abuse than a female child because of their weaknesses

2. Health issues. The issues faced by the girl child is numerous for example early pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases HIV, malnutrition etc.

3. Early marriages etc.
   Toni Adelanwa said in a piece for the Urundi Child Care Trust if all women had a secondary or any form of education, 12 million children would be saved from malnutrition. An educated mother can save the lives of her Children and help reduce the number of malnutrition related deaths which make up more than third of global deaths yearly. Research shows that the female child has a three times chance of having sexually transmitted disease than the male child.

Also it has been proven via research that when you educate a girl child in Africa she'll be three times less likely to get HIV-AIDS, avoid early pregnancy which is harmful to a young adolescent, avoid early marriages earn more have a smaller healthier family. Educated women had played a vital role in the liberation of today for example German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mary Sleslor, Isabel Dos Santos Africa's first female billionaire, Hillary Clinton, Park Geun-hye South Korean first female leaders to mention but a few.
Seeing this needs most especially in my country Nigeria I started a small organization where we go to schools to mentor girls on what we call the girl child education not creating a feminist but an empowered, problem solver, strong and vibrant woman. But with the ever increasing population of the girl child and barriers in location and distance, this initiative is taking it bigger by using the Internet has a means to connect to the girl child (this time around from the teenagers to the youths and even mothers) in any geographical location by educating them through the Internet. And this is where steemit comes in.

My Vision

With the approval from the steemit community and support we would go into the girl world as steemit ambassadors with the various platforms created for a free mentoring classes where the girls will not only be taught but they will be skilled, equipped and powerful women. And there would also be an add psychology classes as well.
Creating the girl child competition on steemit where they can be creative, innovative, eventful, with their ideas these competition includes * MY songs & I, essay writings competitions, colors make magic(photograph and art), beauties and belles(fashion) etc. Where the winners would be given Steem dollars which would help empower them in their choice of career and also a steem certificate after the completion of an entrepreneurship training program on steemit. In steemit participation in the improvement in the life of a girl child steemit would automatically be promoted.

Note: the big influencers in the world are women. You influence a girl you influence a family, a family a city, a city a nation and a nation a continent and a continent the world.

This is my official submission to the steemjet contest.