FIGHTING BIAS: Awareness Through Shared Opportunities

There couldn't have been a better way to fight disadvantage than bringing men and women, boys and girls, to share skills, educate themselves, and  work together to find longterm solution to disadvantage.

Now that concern for gender inclusion is receiving great attention globally and with the emerging technologies that further create disadvantage for women and girls, the International Women's Day presents a perfect opportunity for people all over the world to help #Break the Gender Bias# everywhere. 

In Cross River State, nay, Nigeria, NURSE CARMELFLORA FOUNDATION (NCFF), in collaboration with HEALTH IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE (HII), is being assisted by WEMTON AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ADVISORY SERVICES  (WADAS) to lead the ONE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP, to start a nutrition farm, come March 8th, to celebrate the contributions of women across the world  and also, call for an end to Gender Bias.

The ONE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP was selected to be our Benefitiary group this year because of the exceptional things that they have done in extraordinary ways.

The Group is basically women and men living positively with HIV. They adopted working strategies that have made them outlive traumatised lives that would have ordinarily killed them untimely or left them in perpetual misery. But they took the Bull by the horn and swore to live life to the fullest. 

Not wanting to turn into beggars, these exceptional people began working as a family by organising programmes that built capacities of members in skills sharing that now have them empowered as petty traders in their localities.

Leveraging on this, we have decided to further support them to start a nutrition farm that would boost their general well-being. 

WADAS would be providing rhizomes for the start-up of the farm which is expected to have grown in two years, into what can be used to empower members to own their own farms, as well as, sell the produce to boost their economic growth and household nutrition in the community. 

ONE FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP is a unique organisation that has already #broken the Bias", as the head of the group is a woman  and the Secretary, woman, both, leading others which include a male as Treasurer and Publicity Secretary, respectively. 

Their house style shows that they work with men who are  already very involved in the ##Break the Bias##.

To celebrate this year's International Women's Day, we shall be leading them to start the farm so that they can sell the produce after harvest, to support their self-help businesses and households.

It is only when women and men are brought together to share skills and work together to find longterm solution to poverty, that we can actually ##Break the Bias".