Breaking News: Anambra First Lady , Chief Mrs Obiano Empowers Over 9,000 Poor Rural Women, Physically Challenged and Orphans And Vulnerable Children

                                   
             

Odogwuemekaodogwu.blogspot.com reports that Anambra State First Lady, Chief (Mrs) Ebelechukwu Obiano will empower over 9,000 women, physically challenged and as well as Orphans and Vulnerable Children in this month of August, 2014.

Odogwuemekaodogwu.blogspot.com breaks down the number this way ---5,210 indigent women would be assisted to set up small scale businesses and a total of 2,655 vulnerable children will benefit from a welfare scheme while 1,416 physically challenged persons are to also receive succour.

Announcing these measures on today at the Women Development Centre, Awka, on the occasion of the 2014 Mothers Summit flag off, Anambra State First Lady, Chief (Mrs) Ebelechukwu Obiano, said the interventions were components of her pet project; Caring Family Enhancement Initiative (CAFE), with equal number of beneficiaries drawn from each of the 177 communities in the state.

Speaking on the theme of this year’s mothers’ summit, ‘Women and Progress in Anambra – A Priority Agenda’, Mrs Obiano observed that in the face of the roles women play in all walks of life, it was a matter of concern that their ‘healthcare and other needs are not readily available and affordable.’ She said that for this reason, CAFE had already embarked on the provision of life saving kits to expectant mothers as well as the distribution of cancer testing kits to women for the early detection of breast cancer.

The First Lady promised that the intervention would widen in scope and number of beneficiaries in the years ahead. ‘My next 100 days will witness the presence of CAFÉ in every community. I will reactivate the old people’s homes through the Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.’

In his remarks at the occasion, Governor Willie Obiano assured of continued fair representation of the womenfolk in his government and doors of opportunity to excel in various callings.

 ‘This was indeed the reason I made sure that the Special Lecture that we organized to commemorate my first 100 days in office was delivered by a woman – our brilliant daughter Chimamanda Adichie.’

Chief Obiano noted that women had a significant role to play in his administration’s quest to transform Anambra State. He emphasized that development cannot be realized without rebuilding the fabrics of society, hence the critical contributions expected from mothers. ‘You are the pivot of the family and the true agents of civilization. No child ever forgets the values its mother handed down to it. Our mothers must plant the right values in children.’

The Governor extended the hand of partnership to Ndi Anambra as a whole, expressing the conviction that everyone has something to offer. ‘There is a role for everybody and a place for great ideas and initiatives in Anambra State under my watch.’ 

 Goodwill messages came from Speaker Anambra state , Right Hon Chinwe Nwebili , Chairman , House Committee of Women Affairs , Hon Rebbecca Udoji-Paragon , ; Commissioner Women Affairs and Social Development , Dr Victoria Nkechi Chikwelu as well as Chairman of Anambra state Association of Town Unions (ASATU) , Dr Mrs Chinelo Okechukwu .
Assistant Sector Commander / Public Education Officer FRSC Chinelo M Ezekwesili led FRSC officers to the meeting for sensitization . 

 Papers were presented by Prof P Ibekwe , consultant Gynecology who is also Provost College of Health Science Federal Medical Center ,Abakaliki and Prof Ebele Ugochukwu, Prof of Pediatrics Nnamdi Azikikwe University Teaching Hospita, Nnewi . They spoke on ‘’ cancer and the food we eat and prevention and management of cancer in women respectively.