Category: Programme

Every year, the Centre holds an event tagged: Season of Love Empowerment Programme to celebrate with & empower Widows. This event is used to put smiles on the faces of the widows and their children. The December 2017 edition was very successful with over 500 widows in attendance and a record participation of high profile guests, like Pastor Ifeanyi Adefarasin of House on the Rock church, Her Excellency, First Lady of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode represented by Mrs. Rhoda Ayinde, Wife of ex commissioner of Physical Planning , Lagos State, Her Excellency, Deputy Governor of Lagos State , Dr.(Mrs.) Oluranti Adebule represented by Mrs. John and Hon. Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Lagos State. Dr. Ehigiamousoe, Managing Director of LAPO Micro Finance Bank and Founder, Uche Ahubelem Foundation.
Highpoints of the event were a call to action documentary on the plight of widows, powerful message of exhortation by Pastor Ifeanyi Adefarasin, distribution of gift items comprising rice, make-up, Wrappers/fabrics milk and pharmaceuticals to women and dancing competition by the women where the best dancers won gift items.

A health programme was held for the widows on Friday September 29, 2017 on how to live a healthy life through nutrition. Dr. Ify Nwakwesi, a Nutrition & Personal Development Consultant spoke at the programme. Her remarks were well received by the women, and covered areas like Nutrition, how thoughts affect health, power of decision,
exercises/breathing techniques, water and spiritual balance. Also part of the activities for the day was the checking of the health status of the women that attended the programme.

International Widows Day which takes place on June 23 every year is a United Nations ratified day of action to address the “poverty and injustice faced by millions of widows and their dependents in many countries. WSC joins the rest of the world in celebrating this day. For this edition about 500 people attended the event including widows and the widow of the brave police man who died gallantly after a gun battle with armed robbers who invaded a bank in Owerri.
Theme: Not Alone
Topic: Domestication of the girl child right to inheritance
Speakers: Hon. Lola Akande represented by Mrs. Joke Olasunkanmi-Oshodi, Mrs. Eunice Oddiri Mrs. Adesua Oyenokwe , Publisher Todayz Woman & Barr.(Mrs.) Adaku Mbama of International Federation of Women Lawyers( FIDA)
The major highpoints of the event were the provision of grants of N50, 000 each to 10 widows by CVL to support their businesses and fundraising fashion exhibition by the women.