Let this be the year we uproot the old, rusted logic of violence and plant something different not hope in the shallow way people say hope, but a sturdier thing, a thing with bone, with breath, with insistence. Today We are teaching this city that safeguarding women is not a favour but the foundation on which our future stands upright. Let this summit be the place where justice stops whispering and learns to speak with a full voice. Where legal protectionswalk with urgency,with precision, with memory. And community action becomes daily ritual , as sacred as prayer,as firm as truth. And let this be the year we bury the old silence, the year we plant laws with teeth, the year we hold every perpetrator to accountability. Because a city is only as safe as the girl who walks home at dusk. And until she arrives unbroken,we have work to do. And We will do the work. We will keep doing the work. Until justice grows a spine sharp enough to protect every woman who dares to live. And if the world insists on calling this work slow, then let slowness be our revolt a steady, stubborn chiseling against the architecture of harm. Because in the end, a pathway is not built by miracles but by 🙌🏽 hands refusing to stay idle, hands naming what was unnamed, hands lifting the city into a shape that can finally hold its women without wounding them.” #16DaysOfActivism #UNiTE #EndGBV #EndDigitalViolence #LiftAfricaFoundation #ProtectWomenAndGirls #KanoGenderJusticeSummit #KanoJusticeSummit2025 #BuildPathwaysToProtection #PassTheKanoVAPPProvisions #CommunityForJustice #JusticeForGirls #16DaysWithLiftAfrica