Tag: children

OGUN, NIGERIA: Mrs. Kafayat AbdulRasak, 37, a young mother of three was in an abusive marriage and jobless since 2008. Her husband, on whom she relied for food and other household expenses, frequently abused her physically and psychologically while providing little or nothing for...

LAGOS, NIGERIA: Mrs. Faith Awodele, seated among other mothers at Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu primary health centre in Somolu, was concerned about her 10-month-old daughter’s lack of appetite and incessant crying which had persisted for 3 weeks. She had tried everything to make her daughter...

KANO, Nigeria: On one Wednesday in 2011, Ummai Dahiru, a 43-year-old widow, was struggling to make ends meet in Unguwar Rimi, a community in Bagwai Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano, northwest Nigeria. The five mudus of rice that she had anticipated to sell,...

By Chinonso Kenneth FCT, Nigeria: Victoria Linus’s world was turned upside down with the sudden passing of her husband in 2015 throwing her into a state of uncertainty. As a mother committed to equipping her four children with formal education, her meagre earnings from her...

Enugu, Nigeria: As Mercy Eze's footsteps echoed through the empty school hallways, the sound was accompanied by a low rumbling from her hungry stomach. It is almost the end of day at Community Primary School in Ama-Agu, Enugu state, and Mercy had just returned...