Foundation commences PROJECT 50 ....
62 year old widow of 13 years to get a new house
While other women joined in the elaborate ceremonies marking the 2018 edition of the annual New Yam festival of Alayi Community in Bende Local Government Area of Bende Local Area of Abia State, 62 year old Mrs Lucy Onuoha from Alayi was spotted by our Founding President Dr. Cosmos Ndukwe keeping watch over what was remaining of a slum and informal settlement which unfortunately served as a living house for her. Lucy, it was discovered did not need to stay too far from her abode which was prone to even the slightest touch of wind, rain or sun.
Shortly after the visit, the widow of 13 years whose six children were hardly well to do was listed to benefit from the Cosmos Ndukwe Foundation’s PROJECT 50, a comprehensive initiative that would see fifty (50) widows benefiting in the first phase, from the Foundation’s building and furnishing of decent bungalows for indigent widows found in our various villages and hinterlands. The Project apart from helping to realize the United Nation’s Goal #11 of the Sustainable Development Goal aimed at ensuring access to safe and affordable housing; is instituted to commemorate the 50th birthday celebration of the Foundation’s Vice President/Treasurer Lady Ndidi Ndukwe.
Lucy is just one out of the very many widows found among us who suffer all forms of inhibitions, not by choice, but largely for deprivations that have become the lot of such women who were not lucky enough to have decent accommodation bequeathed by their deceased husbands. These women often live in hardly habitable places which they share with rodents and dangerous creatures at the expense of their lives.
The N1.5m modest three bedroom bungalow furnished to taste is expected to be completed in no more than three months. When completed, it would be the 10th of such uniform houses built for widows by the Foundation across rural communities in Abia State. It is the tradition of the Foundation to equally make provision in cash and other materials to enable these widows fend for themselves over a given period of time.
Project 50 is a multi million naira initiative which obviously would weigh seriously on the lean financial strength of the Foundation. It is against this background that we urge our members while we also invite sister and donor Agencies to contribute generously towards the realization of this initiative.
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