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per time outside their immediate families. Through mentorship, coaching, and material support, each mother shall be responsible to ensure that her child completes their education successfully.
Honoring Motherhood
Today, it appears that the campaign for women’s rights shoves the significance of motherhood to the background. At AWLO, while we are fully engaged in the campaign for equal or greater rights for women, we believe that this critical leadership role must be honored and highly celebrated.
Therefore, #1mother1child doubles as a campaign to honor and celebrate this most important leadership
role that women play for society. We want to draw attention to the sacrifice of women in this area, celebrate mothers and motherhood while encouraging our mothers (every woman) in AWLO to extend the power and culture of motherhood to one boy or girl child at a time. At AWLO, we recognize motherhood as a great gift, a worthy honor, and a unique way to solve the problem of out-of-school children.
How to Participate
This program is open to all AWLO MEMBERS and DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS. To sign up, please send an email to info@awlo.org.
A journey with African Women In Leadership Organization (AWLO)
he comprehensive process of this great change of destiny from potential failures to a great set of people with great dreams
as we are today is very long one.
We are a victim of the insurgency that emanated from Borno state dating back since 2013, in which we lost our homes, families, source of income which was majorly farming, through which our parents were able to support our livelihood and studies. We were all forced to leave our home town in search of a way for survival. We were here in Kuchgoro IDP Camp, Abuja living from hand to mouth just merely affording to survive when the African Women in Leadership Organization came for our rescue in December 2015. They started this program for us with lessons, after which they sponsored our Jamb registration, and God so kind, we were able to pass jamb and gotten admission into the University of Maiduguri. We were five students in the University of Maiduguri, one student in Nursing department, one student in Biochemistry department, one student in department of chemistry education, one in mathematics department and one in physical and health education department. The journey started though not an easy one, but with the African Women in Leadership Organization (AWLO), it was quite a smooth journey. This very organization revived back our hope from a lost one, now being people that are living just as every other citizen should be living a life full of hope. This organization have sponsored us 100% so far so good, ranging from our school fees, accommodation fees, materials, textbooks and feeding. We really cannot imagine how our life would have become without this organization. We see this organization as a God sent to come and rescue us from the tragedy of life and a lifetime pain. We also appreciate the effort of Aisha Ngozi for regularly paying us visit in the university, where she even
connected us with the vice chancellor where we had a discussion face to face with the vice chancellor. This is a rare privilege given to us, most of the student comes and graduate without getting to meet the VC, but AWLO made that possible for us, to the extent that if there is any pressing challenge that cannot be communicated to AWLO on time, we got an easy connection to the school through the VC to get an urgent support to be given a grace of time before we reach out to AWLO.
Currently, we have two graduates from the list of the students that started with us. We have one graduate from Biochemistry department and one graduate from Chemistry education department which are now awaiting NYSC. Currently we have one 500level student in the department of Nursing science one student currently a 300level student in the department of Physical education and one 400level student in the department of mathematics and we a trying our best to make AWLO proud by studying hard and graduate with excellent results. African Women in leadership are nothing different from a life to us. All we have to say to this organization is that, you gave us a dream and took us right there and we hope and pray that AWLO will see us through with this great sponsorship up till we graduate. You have given us a legacy to pass unto our generation even more than we have been given
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I will like to acknowledge the effort of our selfless service mother (H. E. Alanyingi Sylva) long life to our mummy long life to whole umbrella covering the AWLO.
Thank you so very much.
Ali Ibrahim Mbrza (Registered Nurse)
500-level, Department of Nursing Science.
0903 622 1631
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