THE PROJECT FOR HELPING THE WIDOWS JUST STARTED.

2 years ago

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All thanks to the leofinance community and also the neo-care family for making this a reality.

Helping the widows have something doing to help raise their children have been a burden for me since I grew up as a young girl and saw so many widows been denied of their rights and also forced out of the properties that was left behind for them by their late husbands.

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In this part of the world where I come from, widows are not been treated in a good way by their husband's people. Most times you will see a widow hawking and moving around with things to sell just to make ends meet for the family and no one will care or even ask how they are doing. Most of the husbands people take delight in parking away every thing that belongs to their dead brother and allow the poor widow to suffer and raise her children with nothing left for her.

Growing up to see my mother as a poor widow who fall into this category of widows who will move from place to place looking for small jobs to do so that she can feed us made me vow to myself that I was going to have an NGO that will help widows in the future. Though not fully prepared to kick start that NGO of my dreams because of Financial constraints, I decided to start helping the little ones that I can see around me.

I shared the idea with some of my friends and their supported me with money and food stuff. I also met this wonderful group of people in the neo-care who are willing to help put smile on the faces of people who are going through hard times.

Together with what I have and the support I received from my friends, these are the items that was shared amongst the widows:

Cash gift
Rice
Parks of maggi
Parks of salt
Different clothes of different sizes
Sweet potatoes
I also invited an elderly widow who encouraged the widows to always look up to God for help in times of need, because according to her, some men love taken the advantage.of widows who are struggling Soo hard to raise their children.

After this meeting in my house this Wednesday, I felt fulfilled. Even though I didn't give as much as I wanted, but it is good start, I believe that when next I will be calling widows again, I will be able to raise help even for their children's education, because I saw some of them still carrying their little kids around which are supposed to be in school, but because of money, their children are still back at home.
A special thanks to my friend and sister who helped me Financially, morally and also physically. @hivedeb your presence at the event made it special. Thank you so much.