(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…
Suleja Prisons Health Outreach #MyHealthMyRight in partnership with the First Lady of Niger State, Raise Foundation and PPFN. Approximately 500 prisoners will receive free Hepatitis B testing and vaccination as well as free cervical cancer screening from 24-26 January 2019. The vaccines would cost AKAWI N500 per prisoner. The second and third stage of the…
LOVETH MARY EMEGHAI: “I was bedridden for a whole year and I learned one powerful lesson; never give up!” Loveth was healthy, happy, young and carefree one minute and then suddenly she wasn’t anymore. Her life was on a roller coaster of happiness and opportunities; she had finished her ‘introduction’ and was already making plans…
CELEBRATING STRONG AFRICAN WOMEN- #CSAW #AKAWI (Vol 1. No. 1) DOROTHY NJEMANZE: “If people can connect with my name and remember how many times I fell, it will help them.” One afternoon, as a mere child of eight years old, Dorothy Njemanze’s world was shattered seemingly irreparably when she was raped in turns by her…
