“Research shows that women spend on average a much greater percentage than men of the money they earn on their families’ food, housing, health and education.” Women Mothers
Widows are a group of women who tend to be highly marginalised at both the lower and higher strata of society, mainly due to patriarchal systems that still exist, especially in Third World nations. A widow’s reputation can go from being the doting wife and care-giver, admired for nursing her sick husband the days before his death, to being accused of killing him and being denied of inheriting anything he would have wished her to inherit to support the family.
The organisation is working very hard advocating for widowhood issues to be fully integrated into the human rights agendas of national and international agencies so that this group of women do not remain marginalised. Last year, Investing In Women strategically decided to raise funds to support a women’s charity that advocates for improving the human rights and social and economic justice of widows on its agenda. Womankind Worldwide is certainly having an impact by supporting widows to have access to legal advice, especially relating to their property rights.
Also in Nigeria businesswoman and philanthropist Folurunsho Alakija set up The Rose of Sharon Foundation to deal with the dilemmas widows face. The Foundation, which was registered in February 14, 2005 and formally launched on May 23, 2008, has directly impacted the lives of more than 4,262 widows and indirectly 10,000 immediate family members in Lagos, Ogun and other parts of the country.
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