DOHS Podcast Series

In this final episode of the DOHS Podcast, the podcast host Ololade Ajayi and the technical partner Ahmed Hassan discuss the journey so far, highlighting the wins achieved and the challenges faced in Season 2 of the podcast. From the struggles of fundraising to the persuasion of survivors and the technicalities of podcast production.

After losing her father, Blessing, a teenage girl living in Osun, accepts her aunt's invitation to live with her in Lagos and attend school. Unfortunately, this was the beginning of her journey into a world of violence and abuse centered around the same aunt.

WARNING: Listener discretion is advised. Content may include stories of sexual and gender-based violence from survivors [and endangered children], which some people may find upsetting and can be triggering for survivors.

In this episode, Kemi Bonuola, a legal practitioner who is passionate about advocating for women's right, joins the host of the DOHS Podcast Ololade Ajayi in the studio to speak on issues that make women stay in their abuse environment.

WARNING: Listener discretion is advised. Content may include stories of sexual and gender-based violence from survivors [and endangered children], which some people may find upsetting and can be triggering for survivors.

Bola narrates her ugly childhood sexual abuse experience with a cleric at her Islamic school, while she was around age 8 or 9.

WARNING: Listener discretion is advised. Content may include stories of sexual and gender-based violence from survivors [and endangered children], which some people may find upsetting and can be triggering for survivors.

In commemoration of the UN's International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation held every year on February 6, the host of the DOHS Podcast speaks extensively on the subject of female genital mutilation and why it is a threat to the rights and health of women and girls.

WARNING: Listener discretion is advised. Content may include stories of sexual and gender-based violence from survivors [and endangered children], which some people may find upsetting and can be triggering for survivors.

Dr Tolulope Olayiwola Adedoja, a PhD-holder in Counselling Psychology and a lecturer at the Department of Guidance and Counselling, Federal University Oye Ekiti, discusses the adverse and ugly effects of domestic violence on children with the host of the DOHS Podcast Ololade Ajayi.

WARNING: Listener discretion is advised. Content may include stories of sexual and gender-based violence from survivors [and endangered children], which some people may find upsetting and can be triggering for survivors.

Chioma narrates her traumatic marriage experience which began after 15-years of marriage when her husband brings home a 15-year old child from another woman he had impregnated and was intending on marrying.

The DOHS Podcast's host Ololade Ajayi visits the Hope At Last Orphanage, an orphanage home in Lagos, along with a few advocacy organisations to celebrate Christmas with orphaned children, bearing gifts, food and other kind donations. 

In this episode of the DOHS Podcast, Loretta narrates how she was kicked out of home by her stepfather around the age of 20, exposing her to sexual abuse in the hands of a neighbour who took her into his house and ended up becoming her husband. But a very jealous and abusive one.

WARNING: Listener discretion is advised. Content may include stories of sexual and gender-based violence from survivors [and endangered children], which some people may find upsetting and can be triggering for survivors.