A non-governmental organization, Widowsaid_Gh has launched a campaign to support thousands of widows across the country.
Their aim is to inspire and extend various support to the bereaved who are in need.
According to the leadership of the organization, “We will provide the vulnerable women with the right economic, educational, social tools and opportunities that will enable them to achieve sustainable livelihood income to enhance their general wellbeing.”
“The vision and the mission is to demonstrate the love of God and extend humanitarian relief to widows and to inspire hope and extend aid to widows by providing productive livelihood opportunities that contribute to their household income and general wellbeing.” Their statement read
NOMINATION & SELECTION OF WIDOWS
Whoever wants to nominate a widow in any part of the sixteen regions must go through four simple steps.
First, one must inform the nominee about Widowsaid_Gh by letting her be aware of the decision to nominate her to receive the aid, second, take information about the nominee such as age, name, contact numbers, year of widowhood, among others, three, submit the information in step two to the following telephone numbers: 0249 300119 and 0262525310 and lastly, have the assurance that the nominee would be contacted by WidowAid_Gh and as such her contact number should always be active.
The WidowsAid_Gh has been in existence for about seven years and its nominations are to the general public to nominate women who have been widows for at least seven (7) years without being remarried.
The team contacts each nominee to ascertain their level of need and after a successful process; a determined number of nominees are selected to receive aid.
Selected windows are fully funded, transported to the host city and hosted for at least two days for training and coaching by resource personnel and team volunteers.
They are trained and funded to start various small scale businesses that contribute to their household income.
Widows are afterwards taken on free shopping at the mall, which is fully funded by the organization.
They are also given cash donations, clothes, electrical gadgets, cosmetic products, detergents, food items such as; bags of rice, oils, mackerels etc.
TARGETS FOR 2021 PROJECT
The Project Director, Ernest Acquah, said the 2021 project is aimed at ensuring that the windows are well treated in Ghana.
He said, "we aim at setting up Small Scale Businesses for selected widows across Ghana, organize free general health consultation, Hypertension Screening, Diabetic Screening, Malaria RDT, COVID-19 etiquette, prescription and dispensary of medicines and referral services for complicated cases to ensure continuity of care and embark on material donations to widows".
"We hope to make over Ghc 200,000 cash donations to widows, provide alternative livelihood training for widows, organize free shopping at Takoradi Mall for widows, free legal consultation for widows and special domestic support to widows", he explained.
Asked to explain further about the legal consultation, Mr Acquah explained that most widows are in litigation with the families of the late husbands but because they had no money to secure the services of lawyers, they are taken for granted.
He said Widowsaid_Gh will come in for such widows and provide them with legal backing through a lawyer.
DONATION
The organization wishes to invite individuals, organizations and humanitarian groups to partner and donate to us to continue to support widows. Donate in Cash or in Kind.
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