SANDRA HARRISON: “Some single women bury their potentials for fear of chasing men away; it’s wrong. Chase your dreams and be the woman you were meant to be and the right man would be attracted to you.” Sandra got married in 2012 and had nineteen (19) miscarriages in six years. When it hit nineteen miscarriages,…
6th February is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. AKAWI joins the rest of the world to call for an end to female genital mutilation. This unhealthy practice leads to a lot of challenges for women and the society in the end. Speak out against it. #EndFemaleGenitalMutilation #notofemalegenitalmutilation
JUSTINA NGOZI OBIEFUNA: “I was in labor when insurgents struck the hospital and I was abandoned by the doctors with my child’s head already coming out…” Justina Obiefuna was the sixth child of fourteen children and poverty was so entrenched in her family it was practically a lifestyle in her family. She recalls that growing…
DAY 1: 24th January, 2019. AKAWI was at Suleja Prisons, Nigeria in partnership with Her Excellency, the First Lady of Niger State and her NGO Raise Foundation. Our project targeted free cervical cancer screening for all female inmates as well as free Hepatitis B testing and vaccination for all inmates regardless of gender. We screened…
DAY 2: 25th January 2019. AKAWI was again at Suleja Prisons for the continuation of her health outreach. We successfully reached the rest of the inmates who had not been attended to the previous day. We bless God for a successful outing even as we warm up to return in February and March this year…
AKAWI was represented on 24th January 2019 on a talk show on Prison reforms at Radio Nigeria by its Executive Director, Sherina Okoye in a program featuring the Comptroller of Nigerian Prisons represented by the PRO Nigerian Prisons. #AKAWI
(Every last Friday of the Month, AKAWI celebrates an Amazon who has died for her beliefs or her work and left a lasting impact on humanity). VIVIAN OGU is an Amazon who was killed at the ripe old age of 14 for her beliefs and her refusal to be raped by a gang of robbers.…
DEBBIE IBIYEMI: “Sometimes when you are called to heal people that are burned you have to be burned too.” Like most young women, Debbie Ibiyemi had bright dreams and a healthy sense of self-worth until she walked into an emotionally abusive, long distance relationship that changed the entire course of her life for three long…
