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."

Save Our Needy Partners With PEP Stores To Support Vulnerable Women and Children

Multinational retail store, PEP Stores has joined hands with Save Our Needy to reach out to vulnerable women and children as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The retail giant has always made huge efforts to improve the lives of host communities over the years.

Since 2011, Save Our Needy has been committed to positively impacting the lives of disadvantaged women, children and young people through education, empowerment, enlightenment and community outreach programs.

L-R: PEP Stores team (Dynamos) with the Save Our Needy team

A generous donation of items including clothing, toys and baby nappies worth over a million naira was presented to the Save Our Needy team represented by the CEO, Ms Marvella Odili and the Program Manager, Mr. Jerry Odili, on September 30th 2016 by the PEP Stores team (Dynamos).

Widows, single mothers and internally displaced persons (IDPs) will be the main beneficiaries of this partnership.

Ms Marvella Odili expressed great joy and appreciation to the PEP Stores team as she received the donated items.

Marvella Odili, CEO, Save Our Needy expressing joy as she received the donated  items

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