About Us

Women Health Empowerment and Emancipation Initiative, advocates for the rights and dignity of Women and Girls in Nigeria. Taking people from the neglected to the nurtured. We sensitize Nigerians on the rights of Vulnerable Women and Girls especially Female Sex Workers for positive perceptions of the Women and Girls and the impact these perceptions have on their lives. Our programs that are developed to mainstream Vulnerable Women and Girls stories and realities through media and legal framework. We create access to qualitative HIV/AIDS/SRHR/GBV Services for Vulnerable girls and Women through capacity building, demand creation and community outreaches We engage with stakeholders and work with them to domesticate laws to protect them and promote inclusion policy in Nigeria, thereby creating a culture of acceptance, love and support.

Our Work

Our Community Engagement platform aims to engage with key stakeholders in Nigeria on the impact of stigma and discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender and gender identity on individuals in our community settings. Research by the organization found that more than 1 out of 5 vulnerable women and girls in Nigerians had reported suffering discrimination or abuse, did so in their at the community or within a social facility at the communities and more than 1 out of 7 them reported work place discrimination while seeking a job. Community social service points have the power to create social change and a responsibility to protect the livelihoods of their citizens irrespective of their sexual orientation or how they self-identify. WHEEI believes that with the cooperation of stakeholders, we have the chance to develop the culture of inclusion in Nigeria, one that has humanity and productivity at its core.
Women Health Empowerment and Emancipation Initiative innovated a new program designed to support and train Vulnerable Women and Girls/Female Sex Workers in Nigeria to develop skills to challenge Gender Based Violence Our Capacity Building Programs Focuses on these areas:

  • Public Speaking
  • Story Telling
  • Media Engagement
  • Content Creation

  • Skills Assessment
  • Self Confidence
  • Negotiation skills and business strategies
  • Business plan development
  • Career development

Provide knowledge on Human rights mechanism

  • Mental health awareness
  • Physical health issues
  • Sexual health Education and awareness
  • Mediation and wellbeing
WHEEI Media and Legal Support, provides training, mentorship and support to journalists and lawyers in Nigeria to strengthen their knowledge on Vulnerable women subjects and issues in relations to media storytelling and legal representation and support. The media and legal support program is designed to challenge and change how narratives about vulnerable women groups especially the Female Sex Workers are being reported in the media and legal settings in Nigeria. We are not only creating alternative narratives but supporting them to tell human stories when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity. The program aims to achieve among others:
  1. Gradual mainstreaming of Vulnerable women discussions in the media
  2. Increase in number of media houses publishing context and language appropriate vulnerable women contents.
  3. Increased defense of FSW rights by lawyers. Database of lawyers who can provide legal assistance to those who need it (for organizations and individuals).
We embark on advocacy visits to public and private health facilities, health care providers and other relevant stakeholders to strengthen partnership for an enabling policy environment in the provision of non-discriminatory services and to ensure increased access to comprehensive treatment free from stigma and discrimination
We are engaged in an on-going documentation and monitoring of human rights violations that are reported to us by individuals and partners in Kano State on the ISDAO project. The media in any society is a barometer of how the society is thinking and the discourses shaping that society at any giving moment. So, we take the media very seriously and monitor how they report and represent the lives of Nigerians. Our media monitoring allows us to design our programmes and policy advocacy using evidence-based research.