The Nasrul-Lahi-l-Fatih Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) has introduced plans to carry its twenty sixth yearly Girls’s Week, with the theme “Rooted in Religion, Rising with Imaginative and prescient: Muslim Girls Reworking the World.” The celebration will run from Sunday, October 12 to Sunday, October 19, 2025, bringing collectively over 3,000 NASFAT girls from the world over, each bodily and just about.
Talking, its NASFAT Girls Affairs Secretary, Alhaja Ganiyat Babalola, stated the occasion would unite girls throughout all NASFAT branches to rejoice achievements, promote Islamic values, and advance girls’s empowerment.
In response to her, the week-long actions will embrace programmes that cater to kids, youths, and the aged, making certain inclusiveness. The occasion will open with a particular prayer and Girls Join session with youth and kids on Sunday in any respect NASFAT branches.
A commerce honest will even maintain on the opening day to showcase merchandise from registered distributors, whereas chorale recitations, quiz competitions, and a people honest will observe within the week.
On Monday, members will observe voluntary fasting and neighborhood outreach, donating important gadgets to orphanages and correctional centres. Tuesday will characteristic talent acquisition coaching on making baggage, slippers, and throw pillows from leftover materials.
NASFAT will even maintain a celebration of aged and widowed members on Wednesday to assist ailing and aged girls who can now not attend common prayers. Thursday will characteristic an internet missionary session, whereas Friday’s programme will embrace well being screening, Qur’an recitation finals, and a particular Jumu’ah service on the Lagos State Secretariat Mosque.
Saturday’s occasions will embrace a health stroll and aerobics session to boost consciousness on ending gender-based violence, aligning with the UN’s 16 Days of Activism marketing campaign. A fundraising luncheon will even happen the identical day on the headquarters.
Alhaja Babalola stated the organisation goals to boost N500 million to construct a brand new Girls’s Growth Centre, which is able to embrace a talent acquisition hub, a 50-bed hostel, and a transit house for feminine victims of gender-based violence.
NASFAT additionally seeks assist for the completion of its Islamic Centre, at the moment 60 % achieved, and is interesting for the donation of a mini-bus to assist its humanitarian actions.
Well being initiatives comparable to eye screening (in partnership with the World Well being Organisation) and hepatitis B testing will even be a part of the programme.
Past the annual celebration, Babalola famous that NASFAT’s new NGO Silver Lining for Girls and Youngsters Assist Initiative will proceed to champion girls and kids’s welfare by way of tasks like scholarships for women, start-up kits for educated girls, and look after orphans and out of college ladies.
She appealed to the federal government, company our bodies, and the general public to assist NASFAT’s mission, saying:
“By supporting girls, we’re supporting the very basis of a affluent society.”
The week will finish with a grand finale on Sunday, October 19, 2025, on the NASFAT Islamic Centre in Aseese.
