National Women’s Month

      March of every year is declared as National Women’s Month. Anchored on this year’s theme “ We Make Change Work for Women”. The Women’s Month Celebration has since served as a venue to highlight women’s achievement and discuss continuing and emerging women’s empowerment and gender equality issues and concerns, challenges, and commitments. The celebration of National Women’s Month was a platform for tracking the progress of Magna Carta of Women.


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