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7th – 9th October 1998
In October 1998, at the formal inception of the organization, WARSHE held a three-day workshop for members of the organization, and other women and men whose brief touch on the issues of rape, sexual harassment and sexual exploitation.

December 1998
a) WARSHE produced her first Sexual Violence Alert (Sexual Violence Alert No. 1).

27th January 1999
WARSHE was one of the groups that spoke to fresh undergraduates about “survival strategies on Obafemi Awolowo University campus”, during the orientation programme held for fresh undergraduates in the 1998/1999 session, between 25th and 29th January 1999.

January 1999
At the point of registration of fresh female students into Mozambique Hall of Obafemi Awolowo University in the 1998/1999 session, WARSHE was given a desk through which she interacted on a one-on-one basis with fresh female students.

2nd March 1999
WARSHE held a symposium for girls in the senior classes in Moremi High School, located on the Obafemi Awolowo University campus.

17th March 1999
A widely publicized symposium that was to hold on Obafemi Awolowo University campus was aborted by students’ unrest.

November 1999
• WARSHE produced her second Sexual Violence Alert (Sexual Violence Alert No 2).

8th March 2000
• Dr Olutoyin Mejiuni represented WARSHE as a speaker at the Society for Women and AIDs in Africa’s (SWAN Osun State Branch’s) celebration of the International Women’s Day, held at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC).

June 2000
• WARSHE produced her third Sexual Violence Alert (Sexual Violence Alert No 3).

25th January 2001
WARSHE held a symposium, conceived as the first in her series of Faculty Focused Education Programmes for the prevention of sexual harassment and sexual assaults in the Faculty of Social Sciences of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

8th February 2001
Held the second in her series of Faculty Focused Education Programmes for the prevention of sexual harassment and sexual assaults for the Faculties of Arts and Education in the Humanities Auditorium 1, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

8th August 2001
WARSHE held a symposium at the University of Ibadan. This symposium marked WARSHE’s formal entry into the University of Ibadan

18th September 2001
WARSHE Coordinator, Dr Olutoyin Mejiuni was a guest speaker at the seminar entitled: Ethical Issues in Secretarial Profession, organized by the National Association of Secretarial Students, the Federal Polytechnic, Ede Branch. She spoke on: “Sexual Abuse in the Workplace and in Secretarial Profession”.

19th September 2001
WARSHE held a symposium for students and a few lecturers in the Federal Polytechnic, Ede.

10th April 2002
WARSHE held a symposium for Obafemi Awolowo University students at the Humanities Auditorium I.

4th May 2002
WARSHE held an intensive training workshop for Ife WARSHE Volunteers at the Conference Centre and Guest Houses of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

6th August 2002
WARSHE Participated in a community wide health education programme in Ipe-Akoko in Ondo State.

10th August 2002
WARSHE held an Intensive Training Workshop (ITW) for University of Ibadan WARSHE Volunteers at the Conference Centre, University of Ibadan.

9th December 2002
Held a symposium for female student nurses of the School of Nursing, Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Lagere, Ile-Ife.

Between 4th November 2002 and 14th January 2003
WARSHE held 12 No. Awareness Raising Talks (ARTs) for Mothers in Child Welfare Clinics in Ile – Ife (Osun State ); Akure ( Ondo State) and Ibadan (Oyo State ).

3rd February 2003
Symposium at Adeyemi College of Education Ondo (Ondo State )

8th May 2003
Held an Intensive Training Workshop for WARSHE Volunteers at the Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State at the Pastoral Centre in Ede.

4th August 2003
Symposium at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State

5th September 2003
Held an intensive training workshop for inductees at the Union of Campus Journalists (UCJ) Induction 2003, organized by the University of Ibadan branch of Union of Campus Journalists.

9th September 2003
Symposium at the School of Nursing, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ilesha, Osun State

11th September 2003
Had to Call off a symposium scheduled for the University of Ibadan at the last minute, due to violent clashes on the campus.

December 2003
Gave a health talk at the Urban Comprehensive Health Centre (UCHC), Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC) end of year programme for mothers and health workers.

4th February 2004
WARSHE held a mini training workshop on sexual violence and abuse for students of Mozambique Hall of Obafemi Awolowo University in the Hall Common Room. Mozambique Hall is a female Hall of Residence.

11th February 2004
A Symposium was held at the University of Ibadan

1st June 2004 - One – Day WARSHE Workshop/Roundtable titled: The Survivors of
Rape and Other Sexual Assaults: The Search for Justice at D`Rovans Hotel in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Education and Advocacy Materials
• Produced 5,500 copies of leaflets that contained tips for girls and women about how to prevent and cope with sexual violence and abuse;
• 500 posters that gave a summary of the environments in which sexual violence and abuse occur and
• 1, 000 copies of WARSHE Alert Cards. The WARSHE Alert Cards (Yellow and Red) were designed to assist those who have them to warn girls and women about potentially dangerous situations.

4TH September 2004
As part of the Centennial celebrations of the Rotaract Club of Molete, Ibadan, Oyo State, WARSHE was invited to give a talk on: The Challenges of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Exploitation for Nigerian Youths. The talk held at the Rotary Club House, Iyaganku Ibadan.

*10th September 2004
The students of the School of Nursing, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC), Wesley Guild Hospital, Ilesha, had invited WARSHE to give a lecture as part of the activities scheduled for the students’ week, but they failed to turn up for the programme.

*Earlier, on 3rd September 2004, the talk that WARSHE would usually give to Fresh Undergraduates of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile - Ife during their orientation week, which had been scheduled for 3rd September could not hold because of students’ strike action.

26th October 2004
WARSHE held a symposium at a male hall of residence (Awolowo Hall) at our host institution, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) on this day, after we had re scheduled the programme from the previous week, due to students’ strike action. The symposium was titled: Preventing Sexual Assaults and Sexual Harassment.

13TH November 2004
We held a One-Day Intensive Training Workshop with Student Nurses at OAUTHC, Wesley Guild Hospital in Ilesha.

24th November 2004
We held a lively and stimulating interaction with a few lecturers and almost a hall full of students of the University of Ibadan during a symposium with the theme: Confronting Sexual Violence and abuse – The Issues and the Challenges.

2004 16 Days of Activism Campaign
Sensitization, Education and Advocacy Materials (Fliers, Stickers, Posters & T-Shirts) Produced for the Campaign
• WARSHE produced a flier that gave details of the organisation’s plan for the campaign. The details given were: the reasons for the campaign; those expected to take part in the campaign; where and when the campaign will take place, and, what will be done and how they will be done. Apart from announcing the details of the plans for the campaign, the fliers were also sensitization materials which we distributed during WARSHE education programmes.
• The messages on the stickers were expected to provoke reflections on the problem of violence against women.
• The T – Shirts carried 3 of the 6 messages on the stickers.
• There was a second flier that contained a long list of the repercussions of violence on women.
• The poster, which depicted the interaction of some panelists with people of different age groups, whose ethnic origins vary, and who are of different religious persuasions, challenges every one present in a town hall to make a public declaration of the position of their religions on violence against women.
29th November 2004 - Ilesha
The WARSHE 16 days of Activism campaign was flagged off in Ilesha on 29th November, 2004.

1st December 2004 - Ibadan
The Campaign in Ibadan began on 1st December, 2004. Ibadan, which is about 45mins drive from Ile – Ife, is a huge city and is the administrative capital of Oyo State. The campaign team took off from the quadrangle of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan.

2nd December 2004. The University of Ibadan student members of the Ibadan team also placed stickers on the commercial vehicles that ply their campus.

6th December 2004 - Ile - Ife
Ile -Ife is an ancient town in Osun State. The Ile -Ife campaign was held on the 6th of December 2004, and the first port of call was the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Channel 19 Ile – Ife.

6th December 2004 - Ibadan
While the Ile-Ife campaign was going on, one member of the WARSHE CC and a staff of WARSHE went back to the Commissioner of Police (CP), Oyo State Police Command in Ibadan, who had insisted on seeing WARSHE Certificate of Registration the week before. The interaction with a Hall full of Police officers was stimulating.

8th December 2004 - Ede
The Ede end of the campaign took place on the 8th of December 2004. Ede is about 50 minutes drive from Ile- Ife, and it is also in Osun State. The campaign team at Ede had two members of the Coordinating Council of WARSHE, 2 WARSHE staff and 13 student Volunteers (9 from the Federal Polytechnic Ede, and 4 from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile – Ife). The campaign team moved from the campus of the Federal Polytechnic Ede to Division A of the Nigeria Police, Ede.

14th December 2004 - Ile - Ife
On the 14th of December 2004,, a team comprising 2 members of the WARSHE CC and 3 student Volunteers went back to NTA Ile-Ife for an interview.

16th December 2004 - Akure
The last campaign took place in Akure on the 16th of December 2004. Akure is about an hour and 15 minutes drive from Ile-Ife, and, it is the administrative capital of Ondo State. The campaign team, which was made up of 2 WARSHE CC members, a WARSHE staff, and 11 Volunteers from the Federal University of Technology, took off from the campus of the Federal University. The team visited the High Court, the Social Welfare Department and the A Division of the Nigeria Police in Akure.

January-February 2005
WARSHE gave 6No. awareness raising talks (ARTs) to mothers at the antenatal and immunization clinics of the Urban Comprehensive Health Centre (UCHC), Eleyele, Ile- Ife. The UCHC is the child welfare clinic of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, (O.A.U.THC), Ile Ife.

*22nd February 2005
After our successful interaction with the Oyo State Police Command during the 2004 edition of the 16 days of activism against gender based violence campaign, we decided to do a follow up. This was more so because the Commissioner of Police had expressed the wish that we return at a later date to speak with female Police Officers in his command about violence against women. In January, we liaised with the Police Public Relations Officer who gave indications that we should prepare to hold a symposium for female Police Officers in the Oyo State Police Command on 22nd February 2005. The programme was called off by the Police a day before it was scheduled to hold, for reasons that we do not know.

January -March 2005
This was a particularly challenging period for female students in our host institution, the Obafemi Awolowo University, and WARSHE. WARSHE received at least six reports of rape and 2 reports of attempted rape of female students in the halls of residence both within and outside campus, and in the academic area of the University. In collaboration with the students’ affairs division of the University, WARSHE gave talks to female students about how to protect themselves and others from rape, and what to do when the abuses have occurred, in three female halls of residence.

14th& 18th May, and 3rd June 2005
The organization gave her ARTs in the antenatal and immunization clinics of the Wesley Guild Hospital, O.A.U.THC, Ilesha, which is about 30minutes drive from our base in Ile- Ife on the 14th and 18th of May 2005.

1st September 2005
WARSHE held an intensive training workshop/roundtable for experienced nursing officers.

21st – 30th November 2005
WARSHE mounted a desk from which she sensitized fresh female undergraduates to the presence of WARSHE on Obafemi Awolowo University campus in Mozambique hall. Mozambique hall accommodates a lot of fresh female undergraduates.

March – April 2006
WARSHE delivered 6No. awareness raising talks (ARTs) to mothers who were present at the immunization and antenatal clinics of the Urban Comprehensive Health Centre (UCHC), Eleyele, Ile-Ife on March 8, 9, 23, 27, 30 & April 6, 2006.

October 5, 2006
WARSHE organized a symposium for secondary school students in Ile-Ife. Two hundred students were invited from 8 publicly and privately owned schools in Ile-Ife. We asked specifically that 2/3 of the students should be girls and they should be selected from all levels, junior secondary school 1 to senior secondary school 3. One hundred and fifty (150) students from 6 secondary schools attended.

October 7, 2006 (WARSHE had her formal outing exactly 8 years ago on this day)
Given our interactions with the police in the 8 years of our existence and specifically in the context of 2 rape cases that WARSHE is currently handling, we thought there was a need to organize an intensive training workshop for police officers who investigate and prosecute cases, and female police officers, even if they are not Investigative Police Officers (IPOs) and Prosecutors. Thirty eight police officers from the Osun State Police Command attended the workshop. The Commissioner of Police, the Area commander, Ile-Ife and the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) Moore Police Station, Ile- Ife were present at the opening session.

October 12, 2006
WARSHE organized a symposium for secondary school students in Oshogbo, the capital of Osun State. As was the case with the Ile-Ife symposium, 200 students were invited. Two hundred students, drawn from 8 secondary schools attended the symposium.

December 6, 2006: The 2006 16 days of Activism Campaign
A One-Day Sensitization Workshop for 60 Head Teachers of Primary Schools, Principals of Secondary Schools, Chairpersons of Parents-Teachers’ Associations and School Guidance Counsellors in Oshogbo and Ile-Ife on Gender- based Violence WARSHE used this programme to (re) establish contacts with primary and secondary schools and the zonal and local inspectors of education in Oshogbo (the capital of the state {Osun State} where WARSHE is located), and in Ile-Ife. Although the organization had planned to provide the sensitization workshop for 60 persons, she sent formal written invitation to 80 persons comprising: head teachers and the chairpersons of the parents-teachers’ associations (PTAs) of the primary schools that were invited; and school principals, one guidance counselor from each school and the chairpersons of the targeted secondary schools’ PTAs. Present were 12 participants from Oshogbo and 20 from Ile-Ife.

17th January 2007
Held a sexual violence and abuse (SVA)/Women’s rights clinic in the Mozambique Hall of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

15th March 2007
In conjunction with the leadership of Ife Girls’ High School, WARSHE held an intensive training workshop for students of the school during the students’ peer educator week.

4th December 2007
WARSHE held 2No. awareness raising talks simultaneously at the immunization and ante-natal clinics of Adeoyo Maternity Hospital, Ibadan. About 142 women, 5 men and 11 nurses were present at the talks in both clinics.

11th January 2008
On behalf of WARSHE, The Treasurer, Prof. Oluyemisi Obilade gave a lecture on sexual violence and abuse and gender based violence to students in the programme of Master of Public Health, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

5th February 2008
A sensitization/Intensive training workshop titled: addressing the interface of sexual violence and abuse and the HIV/AIDS pandemic was held for the leadership of schools in Ondo State, Nigeria on 5th February 2008.

28th February 2008
On this day, WARSHE held a sensitization/Intensive training workshop for students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede. Ede is about 40mins drive from Ile-Ife where WARSHE is headquartered.

March 14, 2008
WARSHE held a symposium for high school students in Ibadan on Friday 14th March 2008. Out of 9 public and private secondary schools that were invited from different parts of Ibadan, 6 public and private schools showed up. One twenty eight (128) students and about 8 teachers participated in the programme.

May 7, 2008
A symposium was held for students of Osun State Polytechnic Iree on 7th May 2008. Iree is about 65mins drive from Ile-Ife. Again, the body: Women in Technical Education smoothened our entry into the institution, got a venue for the programme, provided the chairperson for the symposium and was generally helpful throughout the programme. Although we had given indications that we wanted 200 students at the programme, at the last count, there were two hundred and eighty six (286) students and some lecturers at the symposium.

Between September 2008 and November 2008
WARSHE Volunteers and staff worked with technicians and printers to produce Education and Sensitization Materials:
• One thousand and ten (1, 010) copies of a 61page booklet titled: Justice in Sight? The booklet is an educational material that speaks to: the challenges that victims of sexual violence and abuse, their relations, and supporters face when they try to obtain justice in Nigeria; the tips that interested persons should keep in view when trying to obtain justice, and the specific ways through which police officers who are involved in investigation and prosecution of cases of SVA can achieve success.
• Three hundred and twenty (320) copies of a DVD entitled: Tiwalola. Tiwalola is a Yoruba word which translates to: “tomorrow is ours” or “we claim ownership of tomorrow.” WARSHE is headquartered in Ile-Ife, a town considered to be the source/origin of the Yorubas in Nigeria. Tiwalola is a 1 hour 26 minutes educational DVD that addresses the key themes of a prototype WARSHE educational programme.

November 4, 2008
WARSHE held a symposium for high school students in Ogbomosho and environs. Ogbomosho is in Oyo State, and it is about 2 and half hour drive from Ile-Ife, where WARSHE is headquartered. One hundred and forty teenagers (140), representing 6 schools from Ogbomosho township and 2 neigbouring villages attended the symposium.

WARSHE 10th Year Anniversary Celebrations
3rd December 2008
To mark the 10th Anniversary of the inception of WARSHE, which was inaugurated in 1998, WARSHE held a four-hour programme tagged: TIWALOLA – Luncheon/Fundraiser of Dreams, Hopes and Possibilities, on 3rd December 2008, at the Ogunbanjo Community Centre, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

December 17, 2008
WARSHE held a symposium for students of Osun State University, Oshogbo campus. Oshogbo campus is where the science faculties of the university are domiciled. This was WARSHE’s first programme in any of the recently established Universities in Nigeria. Three hundred and twenty four (324) students, attended the symposium, and many of them were young women.

August 25, 2009
WARSHE held a one-day intensive training workshop and panel discussion on the best practices in handling cases of sexual violence and abuse for: medical doctors who work in gynaecology clinics and casualties; medical and community-based social workers; principals of high schools, and zonal inspectors of education in Osun State. This workshop was held at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Forty Nine (49) participants attended the workshop, and four of them were journalists. Resource packs and files containing over 200 pages of literature relevant to how medical doctors, social workers and administrators of schools should handle cases of sexual violence and abuse in their work settings were distributed to participants.

September 29, 2009
WARSHE held an awareness raising talk for women who attended the ante-natal and child welfare clinics of the state hospital, Ondo, in Ondo State. Seventy-one (71) pregnant women, two (2) men and three (3) nurses listened to the talk at the ante-natal clinic, while forty-four mothers (44) mothers and a father were present at the talk delivered at the child welfare clinic.

September 29, 2009
On the same day that the awareness raising talks took place in Ondo town, the team of WARSHE volunteers and staff who went to Ondo joined the advance team that had gone to Akure (the capital of Ondo State) the day before for a symposium for high school students in Akure. Two hundred (200) teenagers representing eight (8) schools attended the symposium that was held at the Akure City Hall. WARSHE booklets titled: “Justice in Sight?” and other education materials were distributed.

8th, 15th and 25th of March, 2010
WARSHE held 3No.awareness raising talks (ARTs) at Urban Comprehensive Health Centre, Eleyele, Ile-Ife and Osun State Hospital Oke-Ogbo, Ile-Ife on the 8th, 15th and 25th March, 2010. WARSHE staff spoke to mothers about rape, and how it impacts the lives of women and children.

23rd and 24th March 2010
WARSHE held 2No. awareness raising talks (ARTs) at the child welfare and ante-natal clinics of Ikire General Hospital on the 23rd and 24th March 2010 respectively. Thirty Nine (39) mothers and 4 nurses were present at the awareness raising talk (ART) on the 23rdMarch while 25 women and 4 nurses were present at the ART on the 24th March 2010.

7th and 16th April, 2010
WARSHE held 2 No. awareness raising talks (ARTs) at the ante-natal clinic of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife on the 7th and 16th April 2010. One hundred and fifteen (115) women and six (6) nursing officers were presented at the clinic where we gave the talk on 7th April while sixty-six (66) women and seven (7) officials were at the clinic where we gave the ART on 16th April, 2010.

29th April and 5th May 2010
WARSHE held 2No. awareness raising talks (ARTs) at the ante-natal and child welfare clinics of Osun State Hospital, Ede on the 29th of April and 5th May 2010 respectively.

13th May 2010
A mini symposium was held for students of Bishop Onabanjo Memorial High School 1, in Ibadan. A WARSHE Club was inaugurated in the school, immediately after the mini symposium.

20th May 2010
WARSHE held a symposium for high school students in Ondo town, which is an hour’s drive from Ile-Ife, where WARSHE is headquartered. Ondo town is in Ondo State, in South Western Nigeria. Of the two hundred and twenty five students (225) that were invited for the programme, only one hundred and twenty three (123) turned up. Nine (9) teachers were also present.

17th June 2010
The symposium for high school students in Ikire, 30 mins drive from Ile-Ife, took place in Olupele Hall, Ikire, in Osun State. Whereas 225 students were invited for this programme, 331 students and 11 teachers showed up.

31st August 2010
WARSHE held a symposium for students of the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, in Ekiti state in the last day of August 2010. Ikere Ekiti is about 2 hours drive from Ile-Ife. Present at the symposium was a group of resisting males, who seemed poised to disrupt the symposium. There were also many female students who appeared determined to take the best out of the symposium. About 300 students attended the symposium.

31st January and 3rd February, 2011
WARSHE held awareness raising talks at the child welfare and antenatal clinics of Urban Comprehensive Health Centre (UCHC) Eleyele, Ile- Ife on 31st January and 3rd February 2011 respectively.

14th and 28th February, 2011
WARSHE held awareness raising talks (ART) at the Osun State Hospital Oke-Ogbo on 14th February, 2011 and another ART at the Osun State Comprehensive Health Centre (Olomowewe), Ile-Ife on 28th February 2011.

24th January 2012
WARSHE held orientation workshop towards field work for 7 Research assistants, 4 WARSHE staff and 2 Principal researchers, who were going to participate in the WARSHE survey of the incidence of sexual violence and abuse against young girls in high schools and tertiary institutions in 2 states (Osun and Oyo) in Nigeria.

31st January – 24th February 2012, and May 2012
During the survey of the incidence of sexual violence and abuse against young girls in high schools and tertiary institutions in 2 states (Osun and Oyo) in Nigeria, the researchers carried out field work in: 25 high schools in the 12 education zones in Oyo and Osun states, and 5 tertiary institutions, also in the two states, between 31st January and 24th February 2012, and in May 2012. At the end of field work in May, three thousand, one hundred and eighteen (3, 118) respondents had participated in the study.

As we had anticipated and planned, during field work, we carried out sensitization and consciousness raising activities, and also held short education programmes with the respondents in our research in the two states.

22 April, 2012
WARSHE held an awareness raising talk with the children’s unit of Rhema Chapel International Churches Ile-Ife in the Sunday School Hall. Present in the hall were children aged eight (8) and above and their teachers, most of whom are also mothers.

23 August, 2012
At the Philadelphia Baptist Church, Ooni Layout, Ile-Ife, WARSHE interacted with girls between ages 10 and 17 on Thursday 23rd August, 2012 during the teenagers’ weekly meeting.


B) Intervention Activities
WARSHE intervention involves: support to report cases to the police, university authorities, parents, social welfare officials, and other clay footed officials; counseling; writing protest letters to ensure justice is done; asking WARSHE friends in the legal profession to hold watching briefs in court, to tidy up WARSHE clients and state prosecutors for court appearances; linking victims with medical officials; paying medical bills of victims; paying school fees of victims and providing stipends for some family members in extreme circumstances, when poverty and sexual violence are interfacing; and supporting victims during court appearances. In a handful of cases, at the behest of offenders, with the consent of the victims, and with legal officers present, WARSHE attempts to provide the space for offenders and their victims to reach informal settlements.
WARSHE has received and documented at least 71 cases of sexual violence and abuse and other forms of gender based violence in her office in Ile-Ife. This does not include the girls and young women that WARSHE supported during the survey of the incidence of sexual violence and abuse that she carried out in 2011/2012.

Other WARSHE Programmes and Activities
C) The WARSHE Resource Centre
(and the Link to ALADIN)
WARSHE has a small resource center with textbooks, periodicals, training packages, audio tapes and video tapes that focus mainly on rape, sexual harassment and child sexual abuse. There are others that focus on other women issues and adult education and learning. WARSHE is a member of The Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network (ALADIN) of UNESCO Institute for Education, Hamburg.

D) WARSHE 10thAnniversary Celebrations
(3rd December 2008)
To mark the 10th Anniversary of the inception of WARSHE, which was inaugurated in 1998, WARSHE held a four-hour programme tagged: TIWALOLA – Luncheon/Fundraiser of Dreams, Hopes and Possibilities, on 3rd December 2008, at the Ogunbanjo Community Centre, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

E) WARSHE Survey of the Incidence of Sexual Violence and Abuse Against Young Girls and Women in High Schools and Tertiary Institutions in Osun and Oyo States, Nigeria
About twelve years into our work of protecting children, girls and women from sexual violence and abuse, and helping them to cope when abuses have occurred, we felt a need to work with evidence about the phenomenon, that derives from a systematic process of inquiry, that would allow us: recommend specific policies or policy directions to education, health and social welfare authorities, and the system of administration of justice; map the nature and direction of future advocacy work; plan further education intervention in the education sector; and be more strategic about our intervention efforts. We therefore proposed a feminist action research, and asked the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) for support. The AWDF provided support in 2011, and the ground work for the study began in the last quarter of 2011.
In August 2012, WARSHE submitted a ninety two (92) page report entitled: “Unsafe Spaces: Dodgy Friends and Families” to the AWDF. Excerpt of the report has been sent to key government officials in the two states, Oyo and Osun states, where the study took place and a media briefing was held in the WARSHE office in Ile-Ife.

F) WARSHE Intervention in Public Discourses of Gender Based Violence and Oppression of Women
Apart from WARSHE education, mobilization, and sensitization programmes and activities, some of which were reported in Nigerian Newspapers and magazines, WARSHE also attempted to intervene in the discourse of gender based violence, especially sexual violence and abuse through her participation in radio and television programmes (Ife, Akure & Channels, Lagos {Choba Mass Rape}) and through press releases.

G) WARSHE Creativity in the Defense of Survivors.

H) WARSHE Clubs and WARSHE Volunteers (Ibadan, Ife, Ede, Adeyemi College, Ondo and Bishop Onabanjo Memorial High School WARSHE Volunteers and Club)
The organization has comprehensive lists of individuals who were WARSHE volunteers when they were in school.

I) Send Forth for Ibadan and Ife WARSHE Volunteers
We organized send forth ceremonies for the University of Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University WARSHE Volunteers to encourage them to abide by WARSHE beliefs and core values, as they take up positions of responsibility upon graduation.

J) Martial Arts (Self Defense Programme)

K) WARSHE Monitoring of Cases of Sexual Violence and Abuse in Hospitals, Courts and Newspapers.

L) WARSHE Umbrellas
The umbrellas were designed as a way of publicly acknowledging individuals, corporate agencies, institutions and funders who have supported WARSHE over the years. They go on display during WARSHE key outings and events.