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With the marathon, Lagos Women Run is mainstreaming the narrative that being a woman is not a limit to how far you can go in life or what you can do or not. Hence we decided to partner with them to further drive the narrative

After our first pilot project in Tarkwa Bay community and a follow up visit during our anniversary, we realized some of the women in the community were very passionate about learning event planning and decoration. While we sat with them to understand what makes them

When we started out building Truss, all we wanted to do was help women, we wanted to give back. However, we quickly learned that we had to pay attention to structures and sustainability whilst building the non-profit if we were going to be able to

Of recent, I read a post on social media where a lady shared how members of her family almost unknowingly pushed her to commit suicide. She had accidentally damaged a replaceable household item and was being berated by members of her family. She simply couldn’t

On Saturday, 1st June 2019, Truss Empowerment Foundation hosted their maiden conference themed 'BeKnownBeHeard' which featured conversations about Personal Mission and opportunities match in technology. We also had Yoga sessions.# It was a conference for upwardly mobile women to learn how to use digital and

On Thursday, November 22nd 2018, Truss Empowerment Foundation hosted the biggest female centric tweet chat in Nigeria titled #BeknownBeheard It was comprehensive discourse across several women issues in a ten session Tweet Chat to stir up discussions and proffer solutions to many issues affecting the

On Feb 21st, 2018, Truss empowerment foundation’s team was live at Dover Hotel, Ikeja to facilitate a paper at Hellen Keller International program on active play, the paper presented was titled Teaching Physical Health Education to Children in a Fun Approach “Introduction to Yoga” In

On 11th April 2019, Truss Empowerment Foundation hosted her first stand alone skills training project at Tarkwa Bay Island (An island located at western Marina, accessible only by water) The program was put together to by Truss Empowerment Foundation to fulfill one of her core

Truss Empowerment Foundation hosted an online and offline campaign tagged ‘ivoted’ (with the hashtag #trendytovote) before and during Nigeria's 2019 general elections  (February 23rd and March 9th 2019) It was an offshoot of our ‘Women in Politics’ tweet-chat discussion from our online launch on November

On 28th November 2018, Truss Empowerment Foundation was invited by The Little David (TLD) Media to be one of the special guests at a UNICEF sponsored Frown awards against Female Genital Mutilation. The program was put together to raise awareness about female genital mutilation, educate