BIHAPH AND PARTNERS TRANSFORMING THE STORIES OF WOMEN AND GIRLS

She dropped out of school due to financial constraints while the household struggled to have a meal each day. While her family was contemplating sending her into forced marriage, BIHAPH intervened and enrolled her into our vocational training Program. She was effectively trained in market gardening, pastry production and tailoring/decor. After the training, she was given start-up kits and today she has set up a small garden where she plants Irish potatoes, tomatoes, green spices, corn, beans and groundnuts. She also sews clothes at home and many community members come for her services. She has become the provider in her family thanks to the BIHAPH vocational training component of a project with UNHCR. Because she is a Fulani girl in a community where many of them have dropped out of school and been forced into marriage, she has become an example many girls in her community want to copy her now.