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There are thousands of young widows left helpless in Africa. Most are living in extremely poor conditions, not knowing when their next meal will come for them and their kids. With your support we can help give widows in Africa the help they so desperately deserve.
Investing in widow’s economic empowerment project would set a direct path to eradication of poverty, gender equality, poverty eradication, and inclusive economic growth. Empowering widows to support themselves and families would help Widows to support themselves and their families. This is also means addressing social stigmas that create exclusion, and discriminatory or harmful practices, which is quite common in Africa, where a widow can be required to undergo a period of isolation and imprisonment, purification ceremonies to “cut the link” with her deceased husband and pressed to remarry.
The Widows Empowerment Initiative for Africa would be making enormous contributions to widows’ economies, whether in trade, or farms, as entrepreneurs or businesses. Our aims are to empower up to 1 million widows to increase income, build assets, wealth and business leadership. Also, our programme would help to facilitates women’s access to productive resources and business services by addressing regulatory barriers and promote women’s active participation in and benefit from the extractive industry, agriculture, trade and building women’s
We empower widows to break the cycle of poverty. Empowering all widows economically and socially, can help to boost economy and social relations.
Our education and training helps to provide our widows with useful extra skills. Not to mention they can come together with other widows which is a proven way to create a stronger society.
We offer key dates celebrations such as Christmas events. This event brings widows together and they receive one-off food for celebration and a little grant funding for buying vital commodities to aid living, welfare and wellbeing during the festive period
The loss of a loved can leave a devastating effect on a widow/widower living in Africa, despite the emotional trauma it can also lead to instability and put the entire livelihood of their family at risk.
For the widow’s that are living in Africa the reality of losing their partner is the least of their worries. The instability and chaos that pursues as a product of the death of their loved one can put the entire livelihood of their family at risk. It has been estimated that there are some 285 million widows around the world, with over 115 million of them living in deep poverty.
Many elderly widows face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, based on their gender, age, rural location or disability. Others are still young when they lose their husbands, perhaps as a result of conflict or because they were married as children to a much older man. These women face a long lifetime of widowhood.
Unfortunately it's no shock that a lot of Africa is poverty stricken. We offer the provision of facilities to further support those widows in desperate need of home/amenity repairs.
Ifeoma is a widow with 4 children. Recently, her house has started sinking and collapsing due to flooding in Nigeria. With her current financial situation she couldn't afford to do anything about it; so she came to use for our support. If she continued to live in her current house it would put herself and her 4 children in serious danger as at any moment the house could cave inwards and collapse.
After she came to us for support, we knew she needed some serious help. That's why we arranged for a two bedroom bungalow to be built from scratch for herself and her family.
We want to thank everyone that has donated to support the building project for Ifeoma. We are still soliciting for funds to help complete the building so every donation, small or large, helps massively.
The Widows Empowerment Initiative for Africa was founded in August 2020 out of empathy for widows struggling to live in difficult conditions in Africa. The initiative was formed with a goal of empowering widows and providing relief of poverty by providing education, empowerment & training programmes to support breaking the cycle of poverty and helping heartbroken widows get back into the community on to their feet.
Join our community - 'Widows Connect' a Facebook group controlled by some of our Widow clients. It will give you the opportunity to talk to widows in a similar situation to you; share your thoughts, feelings & listen to others. This group is set up to bring widows who are bereaved, lonely or grieving closer together.