WIDOWS DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY, LAUNCH IN ABIA STATE AND OUTREACH IN UMUAGUNGULORI VILLAGE, UMUEGWU, AFUGIRI, UMUAHIA DECEMBER 31st 2015 WIdows Development Organisation celebrated its 20th Anniversary by holdings widows outreach in Umuagungulori village in Umegwu , Umuahia, Abia State. The President I’d WiDO gave a talk on coping strategies for widows. This included the
WIDOWS DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION PARTICIPATION AT THE 60th SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN ( CSW), NEW YORK Widows Development Organisation (WiDO ) hosted a parallel event at the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 60th Session at the Salvation Army Auditorium on Monday 21st March Titled “Widows of violent conflict ”
By Ebele Orakpo Mrs. K has just lost her husband. She is distraught. Her three children aged 5, 7 and 9 years gathered around her, wondering what was going on. Friends and neighbours were coming to console her. A few hours later, a man and a woman walked in and suddenly, the woman walked straight
By Ebele Orakpo Today, June 23, is the International Widows’ Day; a day set aside two years ago by the United Nations General Assembly. The declaration calls on member-states and other international organisations to end all negative practices associated with widowhood. Speaking with Vanguardrecently, President of Enugu-based Widows Development Organisation (WiDO), Dr. Eleanor Nwadinobi said
B Eleanor Nwadinobi, an NGO executive committee representative of the U.N. for Sub-Saharan Africa, visited Lehigh University on Tuesday, Feb. 28, to deliver a lecture about the work she has done to reduce the harmful traditional practices used on women in southeast Nigeria. Nwadinobi became an activist in 1994, and had already obtained a degree as a