Foundation To Host Conference On Widows’ Empowerment

The Chinwe-Bode Akinwande (CBA) Foundation is acceptable to big a landmark league aimed astatine addressing poorness among widows successful Lagos.

According to the founder, Chinwe Bode-Akinwande, the event, themed “Empowering Widows successful Nigeria: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Vulnerability,” volition clasp connected October 9. It aims to research applicable strategies for widow empowerment, including accomplishment acquisition, microfinance, interaction investing, and advocacy.

She said the inaugural seeks to amplify the voices of widows and fortify their societal and economical positions done strategical partnerships and capacity-building programmes.

“Widows are often exploited due to the fact that of their vulnerability. Our ngo is to empower them done sustainable initiatives that reconstruct dignity and hope.

This league volition make a level for stakeholders to stock experiences, proffer solutions, and perpetrate to implementing them,” Bode-Akinwande said.

The league volition diagnostic a keynote code by Amina Oyagbola, laminitis of Women successful Successful Careers (WISCAR), and a plenary league moderated by Hansatu Adegbite, enforcement manager of Women successful Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ).

Participants volition see representatives from civilian society, government, academia, and the backstage sector. The league volition besides showcase occurrence stories from impact-driven programmes and contented a telephone to enactment for corporate engagement successful supporting widows nationwide.

LEADERSHIP Sunday gathered that since its constitution successful 2015, the CBA Foundation has reached implicit 10,000 widows done empowerment and capacity-building projects. It has provided wellness interventions, nutrient support, concern start-up assistance, clothing, and counselling to much than 17,000 widows, portion implicit 100 underprivileged children person benefited from tuition enactment and accomplishment acquisition training.