The aim of Her Emergency Empowerment Line Project (HEELP) is to empower women and young girls in Internally Displaced Person's (IDPs) camps. This empowerment process will involve training of women within the IDPs camps to become trusted caretakers with high knowledge on policies and legislation promoting gender equality. It will train these women on the 3Rs which are Request, Report and Respond. The project aims at using the vertical-learning process to achieve its goals, where the young girls can confide in these trained care takers to transmit there issues through the helplines which will be handled by the women

1) Meet with stakeholders to identify potential caretakers2) Training of the potential caretakers3) Meet with a network provider to provide the IDP camp with mobile network for a year and negotiate the price4) Obtain the solar powered mobile phones and give them to the caretakers5) Facilitate first support network meeting and teach girls on how to make use of these solar powered phones

Training of women residing in the IDP camp interested in becoming caretakers. Teaching these women and young girls on how to use the new technology, that is the solar powered mobile phones to transfer information to the helpline. These women will also teach the girls on their human sexual and reproductive health rights and ensure its practice to promote gender equality. Banners, t-shirts writing equipment will be needed during the capacity building and technology transfer process.

The initial step is to achieve entrance into the IDP camp, through working in partnership with National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Nigeria. On entrance into the camp women who are interested in empowering girls and their fellow women will be identified through stakeholder advocacy meetings. These women will be trained on the policies and legislation that promote gender equality and the very crucial part of the project the 3Rs (Request, Report, and Respond). These women who will be properly trained as caretakers will be in possession of the solar powered mobile phone which gives girls direct access to the empowerment helpline, through which they can obtain information, advice and support when needed. The young girls in the camps will also have support group meeting on monthly bases about various sexual health issues and the rights the possess concerning them, these meeting will be led by the trained caretakers. In these meeting they will also be taught how to observe a need, report a need and make use of the advice given to them. They will also be taught how to place in the calls or send text messages when they are unable to make calls. The helplines will be available 24hours a day, 7 days a week, with trained volunteers answering the calls and providing information and advice for the calls that come through. When there is an emergency that needs urgent support, NEMA will be contacted immediately and directed to the camp where the call came in from.

National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Nigeria