The teeming number of indigent women, pregnant mothers, and even children in African prisons has risen to alarming heights. Innocent children are borne into the prison system by mothers who are themselves prisoners are left to languish in the unhealthy environment despite their comparably lower immunity. Most of the inmates have little or no access…
The purpose of this project is to take children off the streets and put them in classrooms. Africa boasts an alarmingly large number of young school drop-outs. Well-adjusted, happy children free of need and full of promise are the best thing that can happy to a country, continent and the world at large. Abuse, neglect…
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
