CCWA Marks 25 Years, To Host 1, 000 Women In Abuja

The Christian Care For Widows, Widowers, the Aged and Orphans (CCWA), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), is to offer free medical outreach to widows, widowers and orphans as part of activities to mark its 25th anniversary, and will host 1,000 women in Abuja.

Addressing journalists on the forthcoming programme, in Abuja, President/Founder, CCWA, Professor Deborah Ajakaiye, said the anniversary celebration scheduled for October 11-13, 2017, with the theme: Think Positively; would also feature conference and exhibition of widows’ craft among others.

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“We intend to hold this year’s convention on October 14, with the theme: Think Positively, to be preceded by two-day pre-convention out-reach activities of free basic medical care and vocational training program for CCWA members to hold on Thursday 12-Friday 13, October 2017,” she said.

The president of the group explained that medical care would be administered by personnel from the Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN), the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), FACA, NACA, and other medical and health organisations.

She further stated that CCWA, which started at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, environment owing to her personal experience with widows, widowers, the aged and orphans there, “was aimed at affecting lives by providing the needed care, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, to these neglected group.”

Ajakaiye said that CCWA with over 500 centres spread across 25 states and the FCT has awarded scholarships to over 663 orphans in various institutions across the country and trained over 1,600 widows in various skills including soap, bead, insecticides, air freshener and disinfectant making among other skills.

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While making case more attention to be focused on the plight of widows and the elderly, who seem to have been neglected by society, she disclosed that a national widows’ rally would take place from 8am-10am on Friday, October 13, from the Eagle Square to Millennium Park as part of the centre’s awareness programme.

Speaking on the challenges CCWA had experienced in the last 25 years, the ex-university don, decried lack of government support, said funding was a major constraint and advocated an Act protecting the rights of widows and the elderly.

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