During Councillor Aminu's tenure as mayor during the 2014/15 year, he adopted the GCNW as his chosen charity, holding several charity dinners to raise funds for it. Established to help lift under-privileged girls out of poverty, GCNW has the motto Empowering Girls, Powering Nations and has educated thousands of poor girls across Africa.
Betty Makoni, the founder and chief executive of GCNW, pointed out that the charity is here today for the unseen and vulnerable girls who have no voice. She added that many of these girls its supports have no access to education, use leaves as sanitary towels and have very few options in life.
During the year, a number of events were organised through the former mayor's fundraiser programmes, including the Christmas Charity Dinner held at the Oval Surrey Cricket Ground and a Valentines Cultural Event held at Lambeth Assembly Hall in February. Both events were sold out as members of the UK African diaspora came out in full force to support the mayor and his chosen charity.
Now that his tenure has ended, Councillor Aminu presented the cheque of all the amounts raised during the year to the GCNW trustees at the Lambeth Council Chambers in Brixton. Among the GCNW trustees present to receive the cheque were Ms Makoni, Toyin Onagoruwa and Princess Deun Adedoyin-Solarin, the chair of the board of trustees.
Princess Adedoyin-Solarin thanked the former mayor and mayoress and their team for their unflinching support over the past one year, adding that although Councillor Aminu had completed his tenure as mayor, GCNW looks forward to continuing working with him. She added that the monies raised will be distributed among GCNW beneficiaries to support all of its activities.
"Each network will submit their own proposals for innovative projects, which demonstrate income generating programmes within their communities. The idea is to give them seed money that enables them to fund a project of their choice.
"Girl Child Network chapter in Rwanda is new and as such they have requested for us to come and deliver our GCNW Unique Template training for them on Girls Empowerment that will provide them the key tools and skills they need to run their project. Therefore we will also use part of the funds to impart skills and know-how for girls' empowerment in Rwanda as we want girls to use little money for big impact," Princess Adedoyin-Solarin added.
Ms Makoni and Princess Adedoyin Solarin will travel to Rwanda to deliver training for the girls, to enable them start their own community-based projects. Apart from that, GCNW in UK will use the rest of the funds raised, to start a charity shop that will help girls generate income and keep their projects going.
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