Zarephath Widows Shelter - Turning Widows Uncertainty into Hope. Support widows for better living. Shelter for over one million homeless widows
In 1996, Late Venerable (Dr) Babatunde Oluyemisi Abisoye.. A wonderful husband, Consultant Physician and
WIDOWHOOD:
There are 258 Million Widows and 584 Million fatherless children in the world over.
Nigeria has an estimated 3,531,682 Million Widows according to the 2015 World Widows Report by the Loomba Foundation. In Nigeria, there are about 3.650,000 (three million, six hundred and fifty million). The numbers keep rising by the minute. More widows are dying for lack of support to continue, leaving their children orphaned, homeless, uneducated and without adequate security.
Worst affected by conflict and insurgency are widows in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Syria, northeast Nigeria, southeast Niger, west Chad and north Cameroon. In Sub-Saharan Africa the worst conditions are faced by evicted and abandoned widows with dependants and by those caught up in Ebola areas, exacerbated by traditional ‘cleansing’ rituals.
Widows with only female children and child widows aged between 10 and 17 face severe discrimination in many developing countries. Social norms around sexual behavior remain counterproductive with extreme poverty as a driver of ‘exchange sex’ and ‘survival sex’ relationships and poor quality healthcare.
Widows in developed countries are also affected by welfare cuts and increased insecurity.
We need help to care for the home and children of our departed widows. Please call: 08033285737.
JAMES I:27: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction.”
GOD, WIDOWS AND US!
Taking care of widows is not a shameful thing for the widow or an act of mere generosity by those who would endeavor to obey the command; it is a direct application of the gospel as we do what our Father has done.
- Nonperishable food items
- Books (Christian, crafts, bibles-large print)
- Cleaning supplies
- Clothing
- Craft Items
- Flashlights & batteries
- Credit cards
- Kitchen towels/wash clothes/pot holders
- Laundry detergent, Toiletries
- Linens: bed sheets (full/queen/king), towels and wash clothes
- Mattress sets
- Personal Hygiene items: shampoo, conditioner, face cream, brushes
- Stationery supplies: blank thank you cards, note cards,
We plan by the grace of God, a home for all our widows who are faced with accommodation problem.
We presently appeal to blessed women, men, couples and organizations that have a calling for the needy to donate funds to purchase in SIMAWA (Ogun State) a portion of land that we are discussing about now.
The land is estimated at N36,000,000 (thirty six million) naira.
Hopeful that in the next 3 (three) years, we would have raised N500,000,000 to make available 1000 (thousand) apartments to rehabilitate
Here, we intend to have men, women, couples, churches adopt these now single families.
We know that their lives are now not anymore the same.
Their fridges now look empty. The kids may not be able to continue schooling.
A father figure is missing, their mums can only try, but are not dads.
