INTERNATIONAL WIDOWS DAY

The world remembers and celebrates widows every June 23rd.  At Splendour Vintage Heights Foundation, our activities started on 22nd June 2016 as we went on Radio Nigeria:Treasure 98.5FM Port Harcourt, and discussed on the plights of widows in Nigeria.

MEMOIRS OF OUR MALARIA/HIV TEST EXERCISE

A cross section of widows and orphans waiting to participate in the exercise.

The rural people were at Gwarra community with our team for the testing of malaria/HIV and dispensing of malaria drugs with treated nets.  More than a hundred and twenty people were reached out to because we didn't have enough to go round the people that turned

up. The results obtained only proved one thing: people are dying while alive. Urgent help is seriously needed.

Her joy knew no bounds as she saw me. Our leader of Widows Without Children Gwarra in Khana LGA Rivers State with some other members to participate in the Malaria/HIV TESTING.

One of my girls in our orphans scholarship was there to interpret the Ogoni language for us as I interacted with a widow (without children) who was very sick.

One of our volunteers (a professional nurse) was there to dispense the malaria drugs and mosquito treated nets.

An interactive with some of my orphans in the community.

Our lab scientist doing her best in the testing of malaria/HIV

The formidable team that made the program a huge success.

The results got from this program where we tested widows and orphans (although more than thirty men turned out) on malaria/HIV is simply alarming. Its one thing to be a widow without children but to be HIV positive in an environment where poverty subjects people to all sorts of vices and the stigma of HIV is high can be devastating. Many who were found HIV positive were counselled and referred to the nearest govt general hospital. We call on all agencies, donors, government and developmental experts to partner with us and lets reachout to our rural communities.

ACHIEVING IN HUNGER

The hunger for a plate of food can make a virgin become a prostitute over-night, a principled person become a thief and even a man of ideas to become a fool.  The  need for food has driven most people at the rural areas to the point where they have lost faith in

BEYOND WIDOWHOOD

No one desires to be a widow, with the exception of those couple of insane individuals who are doing it for the cash or some other insane reason. A great many people would prefer not to be a widows.  Yet, it is a sad reality. The terrible side of a relationship is

WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

Comfort, when you have a girl as big as this and you don’t have money to send her to university get a suitor for her and after marriage let her continue the school in her husband's house. That was the opinion of my uncle to my mother when he was called to

CULTURE: ENEMY OF GENDER EQUALITY IN AFRICA

When I hear people ask men, organizations and even government to give women a chance to get involved in issues that concerns them, I simply empathize with them because that only prove their ignorance of the history of gender inequality in Africa.

TRAINING OUR TRADITIONAL BIRTH ATTENDANTS

'For children are His reward! They are His reward!!! Brethren prayers, prayers!!!'
That was the sound I heard when I visited the birth center of a Traditional Birth Attendant. Later, I heard the groaning of a woman in labour followed by a cry of a newborn baby as the shout of 'praise the Lord' filled the air.

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG

 

This is welcoming you to our unique blog WIDOWS WITHOUT CHILDREN. Here we discuss about the issues that concerns this unique people in our society such as their fears, deprivations, struggles and achievements.
Join us and feel free to send your articles, comments and advice as we stand as one to make an effort in reaching out to them. You can also email us at widowswitoutchildren@gmail.com today.