Iniobong Idung

Iniobong Idung's True Beauty Foundation (TBF) is a community-based organization with a mission to empower vulnerable women, particularly teenage mothers and Female Sex Workers (FSW) in Cross River and Akwa-Ibom States since 2014. True Beauty Foundation addresses critical issues through a three-fold empowerment approach—mind, economic, and spiritual. The organization intervenes in HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Sexual Reproductive Health, GBV cases, and Economic Empowerment.

Notably, TBF focuses on reducing unwanted/teenage pregnancies, providing life skills, income-generating skills, and facilitating back-to-school education for teenagers and young women in Calabar South and Calabar municipality. The organization runs a center that has trained over 3,268 teenagers and 4,567 young women with income-generating skills, fostering transformational leadership. Selected for the Women’s Economic Justice and Empowerment project by ActionAid Nigeria and the SFH/UNESCO Spotlight Initiative Project Activity 4.2.4, TBF strengthens the capacity of youth networks for comprehensive sexuality education and sexual reproductive health rights.

The annual international Empowered Women Conference (EWC) organized by True Beauty Empowerment Foundation aims to promote positive mindset change, good female leadership qualities, and economic independence for at least 100 women yearly. Additionally, TBF was chosen to implement the Nigerian Youth Future Funds (NYFF) project, focusing on creating awareness and sensitizing teenage mothers on their Sexual and Reproductive Health.