Favour Chukwugolum

Favour is a 20 year-old Girl Leader, Intern, and Chair of the Adolescent Girls Advisory Board at Girls Voices Initiative in Nigeria. Her passion for activism drives her active participation in the Girls' Rights Movement that has impacted over 800,000 adolescent girls, and through the Girls on the Airwaves project - a digital action campaign to end violence against girls and women that has reached over 200 million people.

Favour represented Girls Voices Initiative to receive the With and For Girls Award in 2019 and served as a member of the With and For Girls Strategic Design Team in 2020. She is excited about a current project that she is working on alongside other girl advocates. They are developing the first girl-inspired curriculum to be integrated into secondary school clubs and empower girls as part of the GIRLEADS Program in Nigeria.

One action Favour would like everyone to take:

“Girls need to be given a seat in the decision making table because we know the issues. We want to further build our capacity while actively participating in matters concerning us. Girls wear the shoes and they are in the best position to tell where the shoe hurts.”

Follow Favour on Instagram and Twitter. Watch Favour talk as part of the Girls Summit in 2018.