Ese Usamali Foundation For Rural Development

Today, Ese Usamali Foundation For Rural Development (EUFORDe) join the global Community to celebrate the strength, dreams, innocence, and potentials of the boy child.

A boy is not just a male child or a future man, a human being deserving of love, guidance, protection, emotional support, and opportunities to thrive. As we advocate for the rights and wellbeing of girls, we must also intentionally raise boys to be responsible, compassionate, confident, respectful, and emotionally healthy.

To every boy child, EUFORDe values you.
You are important.
Your voice matters.
Your dreams are valid!

Happy Celebrations!

What happens when decommissioning doesn’t happen: Adunwo's Cost of Silence

Adunwo's farm in Obele used to feed six people. Now it feeds none.

The oil pipeline that runs 200 meters from her land was abandoned five years ago. No one came to cap the wells, remove the corroded pipes, or test the soil. The company left. The regulator never followed up. And the crude that seeped out during the last leak is still in the ground.

She noticed it first in the Cassava. Stunted, blackened at the roots, tasting of kerosene. Then the Well water turned oily. Her youngest son developed a rash that won’t clear. The Health Center, 30 km away calls it “skin infection.” No one asks what’s in the water.

*The gap between extraction and responsibility*

This is what happens when decommissioning doesn’t happen. Decommissioning isn’t just removing equipment. It’s restoring land, monitoring groundwater, and making sure communities aren’t left with toxic residues. When companies exit without that process, and regulators don’t enforce it, the cost lands on people who had no say in the project.

Adunwo isn’t asking for special treatment. She’s asking for the same standard that would apply if this happened to a city: test the site, clean it, and make whoever benefited from the resource responsible for the mess.

The question now:
Her farm won’t recover on its own. The oil isn’t going anywhere unless someone removes it.

How many other women are farming on land that was supposed to be decommissioned years ago, and who decides when “out of sight” stops being “out of mind”?



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