The Chibok girls were all over the news. Their names were not.
They had been reduced to a number.
When a woman's story goes missing, she becomes a number.
So Lola Omolola built a private space for Nigerian women. It grew into a global community where African women and women across the diaspora could say what they had been taught to swallow.
They came. From everywhere. They said what was happening in their lives. In their own words. To other women who knew.
It got huge.
More than 2 million women. 100+ countries.
80 cities.
4 continents.
4 continents.
FINConnect. Women showed up in person.
98%
said they are not afraid anymore to speak up in their daily life
99%
said they gained confidence and feel stronger
71%
said they got out of a sensitive situation because of FIN
Archipel & Co. independent study. 2,862 women surveyed across multiple countries, 2019.
The room worked because women were not judged, exposed, preached at, corrected, or mined for content.
Story needs spine.
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