The UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals towards a better
world by 2030 wraps around a myriad of action areas, including Girls/Gender
Development & Quality Education, areas 4 & 5.
Believing that Education is more than what is learned in
school, Zuriel Oduwole then 13 years old, launched her basic “Film Making 101
Class” for 25 Girls in Namibia, back in February 2016. It was one of several
initiatives over a 4 year period that got her honored by the US Secretary of
State in January 2017 in Washington DC.
Now 15 years old, her film making program with the support
of Sahara Group, has just completed across 3 ECOWAS countries of Ghana,Nigeria and Cote
D’Ivoire. While the classes in Nigeria and Ghana featured
traditional and vocational School Girls aged between 15 and 19, the class in
Abidjan – Cote D’Ivoire was delivered for women between the ages of 19 and 38 –
most with social, economic, domestic, cultural and environmental challenges,
who were looking for a second chance in life, and hopefully, participate in the
New Digital Economy.
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