The Rural People

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.

We were live on radio today to discuss on the plight of widows as part of our activities in marking International Widows Day tomorrow We say no to every form of maltreatment against widows. 

The father of my baby dumped me after the baby came and since then I have been suffering. My parents are too poor to help so I have to make love to different men to help feed my baby. Please Ma, the teaching you gave on HIV/AIDS is very touchy and fearful so how can

The rural people were at Gwarra community with our team for the testing of malaria/HIV and dispensing of malaria drugs with treated nets.  More than a hundred and twenty people were reached out to because we didn't have enough to go round the people that turned

The hunger for a plate of food can make a virgin become a prostitute over-night, a principled person become a thief and even a man of ideas to become a fool.  The  need for food has driven most people at the rural areas to the point where they have lost faith in themselves.  Parents struggle daily to provide for their children without success as they try to find the push to go on living with the resultant effect of producing more children because hunger and ignorant are like twins.

Eleh was already a mother of three before she became 20 years. One of the few (disadvantaged) ladies that survive by being a loyalist to a notorious drug kingpin. When I asked Eleh what led her to such life style, she told me a story that left me stunned. She was given to marriage as a girl child at thirteen years to an old man who was her father's friend.

Comfort, when you have a girl as big as this and you don’t have money to send her to university get a suitor for her and after marriage let her continue the school in her husband's house. That was the opinion of my uncle to my mother when he was called to help in funding my academics.  Ironically, this represents the opinion of the majority of men in our rural areas who are