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Catholic Leadership Entity in Nigeria Begins Christian Stakeholder Training in SGBV Fight

Some participants at the training workshop for Christian Stakeholders on skills and tools for raising public awareness on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria. Credit: Fr. George Ehusani

By Agnes Aineah

Abuja, 16 November, 2022 / 9:45 pm (ACI Africa).

The  Lux Terra Leadership Foundation  on Tuesday, November 15, began the first in a series of training workshops for Christian Stakeholders on skills and tools for raising public awareness on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the West African country.

In a note shared with ACI Africa, Fr. George Ehusani, the Executive Director and Lead Faculty of the foundation that deals with leadership training describes SGBV as “a menace” in Nigeria, and expresses optimism that the training will equip participants with skills to tame the vice that the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has also condemned.

Fr. Ehusani says that the training has employed intervention strategies and mechanisms to achieve “the much required attitudinal, behavior and culture change, as well as workable individual and group action plans for policy advocacy towards the elimination of the menace in the Nigerian society.”

“Participants at the workshop are clerics and lay leaders of Christian churches and institutions drawn from across the country,” the award-winning Catholic expert says.

Present at the opening ceremony of the training were Bishop Anselm Umoren, Auxiliary Bishop of Abuja, representatives of Dame Pauline Tallen, and Nigeria’s Minister of Women Affairs.

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“The programme involves the training and equipping of 360 ‘Advocates for the Elimination of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria’, over the next three years,” the member of the Clergy of Nigeria’s Lokoja Diocese says in the note shared with ACI Africa Tuesday, November 15.

The purpose of Lux Terra Leadership Foundation, according to information provided by the foundation, is “to expose leaders and potential leaders to the dynamics of purposeful, visionary, transformative and inspiring servant leadership.”

“Beneficiaries of our programmes are equipped and motivated with the necessary orientation, skills and tools, towards the effective management of people and resources and optimal realization of the objectives of their societies, organizations, agencies or religious groups,” reads the foundation’s description in part.

The Lux Terra Leadership Foundation has also established the Psycho-Spiritual Institute (PSI), which is involved in the training of, and graduating experts in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy and Christian Counseling for English-Speaking African countries.

The emergence of the PSI, according to information provided on the Institute’s website, is a response to “an urgent need” to offer professional psychological and spiritual care to the increasing number of clerical, religious and lay pastoral agents who now and again find themselves in difficult life situations of an emotional and psychological nature, but who often do not find adequate support.

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Agnes Aineah

Agnes Aineah is a Kenyan journalist with a background in digital and newspaper reporting. She holds a Master of Arts in Digital Journalism from the Aga Khan University, Graduate School of Media and Communications and a Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics, Media and Communications from Kenya's Moi University. Agnes currently serves as a journalist for ACI Africa.

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