ITS INTERNATIONAL WIDOWS DAY

The world remembers and celebrates widows every June 23rd.  At Splendour Vintage Heights Foundation, our activities started on 22nd June 2016 as we went on Radio Nigeria:Treasure 98.5FM Port Harcourt, and discussed on the plights of widows in Nigeria.

Today being the 23rd of June, we went on the streets of Port Harcourt, to get the opinion of single girls on what they think about the barbaric African traditions that subjects and maltreats widows.



Most of them in a relationship said that they could not ask their lovers such question which is "the harmful traditional practices against widows in their communities".
They were of the opinion that these harmful practices should be abolished.
Sadly they agreed that there was absolutely nothing that they could do to stop these harmful practices.

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