AFRO-NETS> WIDOW-CARE, INC.

[Brown Ogba <brownny1ng@yahoo.com>]

WIDOW-CARE, INC.
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We are glad to introduce our Organization to all colleagues at AFRO-
NETS. Please bring this introduction about our Organization to atten-
tion of all concerned.

Thank you.

Brown S. O. Ogba
Programme Manager

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Secretariat:
A-G-A-P-E Office Complex 
1A Ogoja Road
Abakaliki
Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Tel: +232-43-221-087
Tel./Fax: +234-43-221-501, 221-537, 220-519

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 627
Abakaliki
Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

LEGAL STATUS OF WIDOW-CARE, INC.

Inaugurated in the year 1995, Recognized and Registered with Ebonyi 
State Welfare Council and Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) Abuja, Ni-
geria.

OBJECTIVES

* To provide support to orphans and the physically handicapped.
* To fight every oppression of widows and orphans through the Family
  Law Centre.
* To alleviate the negative effect of widowhood on widows and their un-
  der aged children.
* To reduced poverty among widows.
* To empower widows Economically and Politically.
* To create employment opportunities for widows.
* To eradicate harmful traditional practices against widows.
* To heighten awareness about the risk of HIV infection/AIDS/STD.
* To strengthen AIDS prevention activities and programmes at all levels
  of society.
* To promote respect and care for all HIV infected people and people
  with AIDS.
* To highlight the impact of HIV/AIDS around the rural communities of
  Ebonyi State.

STRATEGIES

* Research & documentation on issues affecting Widows.
* Seminars & Workshops.
* Skill development.
* Micro credit scheme.
* Social mobilization & policy advocacy.
* Establishment of a paralegal unit known as Family Law Center.
* School Evangelism outreach Programme.
* Primary Health Care.

FUNDING

* Membership dues, levies & donations.
* Revenue generated through Skill Development Training.
* Launchings.
* Donor Agencies.

NETWORKING

* Agape Foundation for Literacy and Rural Development. Abakaliki, Nige-
  ria.
* Civil Society Action Coalition for Education for All, Abuja, Nigeria.
* Civil Society Consultative Group on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. (CiSCHAN)
  Abuja, Nigeria
* Ebonyi State Action Committee on Aids (EBOSACA).

COLLABORATION

Widow-Care is working in collaboration with:
* AIDS Control & Prevention Project, Lagos.
* Africare: an NGO based in California, USA.
* United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

MILESTONE

* Money.
* Office equipment.

ACHIEVEMENT

* Micro financing of Widows business Enterprises.
* Creation of employment opportunities for over one thousand widows and
  their children and other less privileged rural women.
* Provision of skills in weaving, Shoe making, Knitting, making of tri- 
  cycles, weaving Chairs, Ashoke etc.
* Established Scholarship for the widow?s under aged children.
* Provided job opportunities for the disabled by Training.
* Liberating oppressed widows and other woman, securing bill abolishing
  harmful traditional practices (e.g. Female Circumcision, killing of
  twins etc.).

MEMBERSHIP

Membership of Widow-Care is open to widows, women and all who are 
willing to work for the upliftment of the life of widows and their un-
der aged children.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Mrs. Eunice U. Egwu (JP)
First Lady and Wife of The Executive Governor
Government House
Abakaliki
Ebonyi State 
Nigeria.

Pastor Gabriel O. Odom
Executive Director
Agape Foundation
Abakaliki
Ebonyi State

Kennedy C. Ogba, Esq.
(Businessman)
Managing Director / C.E.O
Miracle Press Enterprises
Enugu
Nigeria

For further information, contact:

Brown S.O Ogba
Programme Manager
WIDOW-CARE, INC.
A-G-A-P-E Office Complex
1A Ogoja Road
P.O. Box 627
Abakaliki
Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Tel: +234-43-221-087
Fax: +234-43-221-501, 221-537, 220-519
mailto:brownny1ng@yahoo.com

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