Save Our Needy Fights Poverty By Empowering Marginalized Women

When a woman is economically empowered, she has the ability to lift her whole family out of poverty. Through the SON Women Entrepreneurship Program, Save Our Needy is assisting marginalized and vulnerable women become self-sufficient. The women are given material and/or financial donations to start their own small businesses or boost their small businesses. We believe that an empowered woman will be able to educate, protect and provide better health services for her children.
 
Mrs. Nwabueze recently benefitted from this Program as Save Our Needy donated clothes (men and women clothing) and shoes for her to boost her small business of selling gently used clothes.
Mrs. Nwabueze is a widow with 3 children who has been facing financial difficulties even before she lost her husband 3 years ago due to a long-standing illness. She was very grateful for the items received. 

Mrs. Nwabueze (left) receiving donated items from Marvella Odili (CEO, Save Our Needy)

Mama Aliya (as she's fondly called) also recently got financial donation from Save Our Needy to boost her small business. She was given gifts for herself and her 5 children to make them happy. A struggling young mother, Mama Aliya has been the breadwinner in her home for more than 5 years now. She was very grateful for the help she got from us. 

Mama Aliya in company of 2 of her daughters receiving financial donation and gifts from Marvella Odili (CEO, Save Our Needy)

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SON Women Entrepreneurship Program

Save Our Needy reached out to several disadvantaged women yesterday, October 31st, by empowering them with donated items to enable them start their own small businesses.

CEO, Save Our Needy, Marvella Odili (middle) with beneficiaries of the program

Through the SON Women Entrepreneurship Program , Save Our Needy hopes to end extreme poverty by empowering women particularly widows and single-mothers with material and/or financial donations to encourage and motivate them to become entrepreneurs thereby becoming self-reliant.
We hope to give disadvantaged women a voice because #PovertyIsSexist.

A happy beneficiary

The women all had very sad stories to tell about how they have coped so far without any form of help. Some of the women we reached out to include: a single mother of 7 children who left her marriage due to domestic abuse, a single mother of 3 children aged below 5 years who was abandoned by her husband, a pregnant woman whose husband has been out of work for several years and a young single-mother of one abandoned to her fate for more than 3 years by her husband.

One of the beneficiaries, Kate, tells the audience about her struggles as a single mother

Through this initiative, Save Our Needy hopes to lift women up, help them take the lead and contribute to the development of the nation.
"Empower A Woman, Empower A Nation."