As the IDP camps in adamawa state continue to receive
visitors with relief materials, one organization is providing another form of
relief for the internally displaced persons by ensuring independence of women
who have lost their husbands and those who can assist their husbands whose
livelihood has been affected by insurgency
WAKILIYAN MATA EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE is a non-governmental
organization committed to the independence
of women financially or otherwise
by establishing a revolving loan for women.
The organization was at the IDP camp last week in Yola where
200 women are to benefit from the facility which will be expanded in addition
to training to be provided for skills acquisition..about 50 women are
benefiting from the first phase of the programme.
The wakiliyan mata empowerment initiative is the brain child
of Barrister Sharon Ikeazor, the national women leader of
the defunct CPC and was the interim national women leader of the APC and now a
member of the APC board of trustees. While speaking to the women at the camp
said the project is her personal initiative ad that the money given to them is
not free but it will help them to leave the camp as better people
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