SHE HUSTLES AFRICA
Overview #SheHustlesAfrica is a joint initiative of the indigenous NGO, African Kids and Women Rights Empowerment Initiative (AKAWI) and the German business organization, NavigatingTransformation. #SheHustlesAfrica targets female African entrepreneurs and assists eligible participants to set up their businesses, solve business challenges and grow. It is tailor-made to address the particularities of the African business terrain…
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
After due consultations with stakeholders and in view of the poorly-contained spread of Covid-19 in Nigeria, we wish to announce that our Astounding Amazon of Africa Award scheduled for Saturday 28th March 2020 has now been postponed UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. We regret any inconveniences this may cause to any of our invited guests and friends.…
ASTOUNDING AMAZON OF AFRICA AWARD
On 28th March 2020 AKAWI will honor one woman whose story was chosen by our select panel of judges for the grant of the Astounding Amazon of Africa Award. The event will feature a panel discussion on the Millennial African Woman and tea conversation on Harnessing the Potential of SMEs for the African woman. There…
#SheHustlesAfrica
Overview #SheHustlesAfrica is a joint initiative of the indigenous NGO, African Kids and Women Rights Empowerment Initiative (AKAWI) and the German business organization, NavigatingTransformation. #SheHustlesAfrica targets female African entrepreneurs and assists eligible participants to set up their businesses, solve business challenges and grow. It is tailor-made to address the particularities of the African business terrain…
CELEBRATING STRONG AFRICAN WOMEN #CSAW #AKAWI (Vol. 1, No. 6)
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,…
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
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
CELEBRATING STRONG AFRICAN WOMEN #CSAW #AKAWI (Vol. 1, No. 5)
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…
Suleja Prisons Health Outreach
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…
Suleja Prisons Health Outreach
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…
Talk show on Prison reforms
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
CELEBRATING STRONG AFRICAN WOMEN #CSAW #AKAWI (Vol. 1, No. 4)
(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.…
CELEBRATING STRONG AFRICAN WOMEN- #CSAW #AKAWI (Vol 1. No. 3)
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
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…
CELEBRATING STRONG AFRICAN WOMEN #CSAW #AKAWI (Vol. 1, No. 2)
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)
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…