Declaring the program open, the Executive Director of SWAYA, Stella Amanie appreciated the management of the school for the opportunity to create awareness on human right among the students, thanked Development and Peace, Canada for supporting the program and expressed her Genevieve Talbot, a former staff of Development and Peace who was in Nigeria on holidays for finding time to attend the program. Speaking further, Mrs. Stella said the students are fortunate to receive sensitization on human rights education, an opportunity she did not have as a student. She shared her experience as a young girls growing up and doubled as a student and also carrying out hawking business at the same time. She emphasized on the need for the students to take the human right education that would be presented by the Executive Director of Advocacy Centre serious and talked about how age is not a barrier to knowing about human right. As an event that took place in a girls’ school, she encouraged the girl child to be bold, fearless and confident in standing and fighting for their rights in society.
At the end of Stella Amanie’s speech, Genevieve Talbot was asked to say Hello to the students. She started by asking a question “Why we care about human right?” and a student responded that “It is an entitlement to know our right”.
