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The Chinwe Bode-Akinwande (CBA) Foundation has marked its 10th day with a high-impact league aimed astatine addressing the systemic challenges faced by widows and exploring sustainable solutions for their empowerment.
The conference, themed “Empowering Widows successful Nigeria: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Vulnerability,” was precocious held successful Lagos, bringing unneurotic stakeholders from the nationalist and backstage sectors to sermon argumentation reforms, empowerment initiatives, and sustainable enactment systems for widows.
Delivering the keynote address, Mrs Amina Oyagbola, Founder and Chairperson of Women successful Successful Careers (WISCAR), described widow empowerment arsenic a motivation work and a nationalist priority. She commended the Founder of CBA Foundation, Mrs Chinwe Bode-Akinwande, for her decade-long committedness to improving the lives of widows and their children. “Through the CBA Foundation, you person fixed countless widows and children courage, confidence, and dignity. Your enactment proves that 1 person’s imaginativeness tin alteration generations,” Oyagbola said.
Representing FirstBank, Mrs Acharu Osime, Head of Internal Communications, expressed the Bank’s enactment for the Foundation’s mission, noting that its objectives align with FirstBank’s sustainability pillars, which absorption connected welfare, diversity, and fiscal inclusion. “We are excited to beryllium portion of this initiative, supporting 1 of our own, to make a much inclusive and supportive situation for widows,” she said.
Damilola Popoola, Head of Strategy astatine DigitXplus, lauded the Foundation’s interaction implicit the past decade, describing the lawsuit arsenic a solemnisation of resilience and dignity. “Empowerment begins with dignity, and dignity grows erstwhile women are fixed a voice, a skill, and a accidental to imagination again. We astatine DigitXplus stay dedicated to walking the locomotion with the CBA Foundation,” she stated.
In her remarks, Mrs Bode-Akinwande expressed gratitude to partners and attendees, reaffirming the Foundation’s committedness to uplifting widows crossed Nigeria. “We envision a Nigeria wherever widowhood is not a condemnation to poorness but a pathway to resilience. When we assistance a widow, we assistance her children, her community, and our nation,” she said.
The league besides featured a sheet treatment moderated by media property and communications strategist Jide Benson. Panellists included Etemore Glover, CEO of the Impact Investors Foundation; Abiola Odanye, Head of Operations astatine Market Ranch; and Mrs Damilola Hassan, Managing Director of Meristem Trustees Limited. They discussed cardinal topics including argumentation advocacy, economical empowerment, and organization enactment for widows.
The lawsuit received enactment from respective firm sponsors, including FirstBank, Vyrus, Eko Hotel, Truecaller, Power Oil, Munch It, Minimie Noodles, Minimie Chinchin, Kellogg’s, and Colgate—reflecting beardown private-sector backing for inclusive societal development.
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