The 1st World Agenda on Widowhood Development in Africa 2017 – Tuesday 4th of April

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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.

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About Us

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 Dr Mrs Maggie Ibru has been working with Serendipity House for 15 years, since 2001. She has fed, given her hall for use till 2011 when Chief OLANIYAN: Chairman, Victory High School took over. 

By God’s design, a wife is to be the special object of her husband’s love and care. As “a weaker vessel” (1 Pet. 3:7), she is under his authority and protection.

But if a woman loses her husband, she is often left without any means of financial support. Such women are under God’s special care. The psalmist said the Lord is “a defender

of widows” (Ps. 68:5, NIV; cf. Deut. 10:18). God’s compassion goes out to them because of their difficult situation. And Scripture reveals that has always been God’s attitude toward widows.

God’s Wives (by Serendipity)is organized to minister to the needs of widows and to assist churches in helping widows of all ages, races, and religious backgrounds to overcome problems in their life’s journey.

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Our Mission

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To ease the burdens of widows and their children.

To provide support for widows through the grieving process and beyond

To provide life transition resources and immediate connection which will facilitate the healing process

To enlighten communities by creating awareness to foster the rebuilding of the lives of these widows

To encourage communities to embrace and we uplift the widows as they try to pick up the pieces of their lives

Our Vision: Equipping Communities with necessary information to cater, encourage and advance the cause of widows

To provide a strong network of widows.

Empowering widows by encouraging the sharing of experiences.

To open the door of a safe haven for widows

To provide short term sheltering

To engage them in living and loving again…

To ensure they do not go through their experience alone, but with life-long connections and lasting support.

To provide counsel, guidance and an avenue for good rapport

To show understanding, offer a listening ear and provide an enabling environment in which widows can freely express themselves

To provide emotional, physical, spiritual, emotional and financial support for the widows

Our Vision

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SERENDIPITY HOUSE (Mission for Women & Girls)

Serendipity Nigeria is a not for Profit initiative working to support women and girls without neglecting the family. It is registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission.
Serendipity has no religious, political or cultural bias. But Gender based.

Since its birth in October 1995, Serendipity House Nigeria had organized public forums quarterly through lectures, symposium, seminars, tracts and bulletins “the VOLUNTEERS” to encourage inter-organizational consultation, inter governmental and non-governmental articulation and transfer of ideas and information that concern

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From The Missioner’s Desk

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MissionerTo our dear Patrons/Matrons, James 1:27 at Serendipity Widows Foundation.
We are grateful for your past, present and future support for the centre projects.

God will surely increase you more. Please don’t forget to help us with the N500 weekly endowment/legacy fund in aid of the WIDOWS CAMP. Out of the over 15,560 widows that walk into our centre yearly, only 50 will be supported with little food sharing monthly. Only 15 will be given part rent support. Only 10 children can get books and food allowance for school. Above all we intend to train 500 in skills, trading, and mind empowerment yearly. The camp land is N7,500,000 and we have realized just N575,000 at the 2018 launch event. Oh! Lots to gather. You are one of our Sponsors127Project Personalities, God will help you a lot. Kindly do work with us with your friends. Yearly we would like to do something that will make you proud.

Donation by bank transfers only to Ac NO: 1020677540 SERENDIPITY HOUSE. U.B.A.

WhatsApp: http://wa.me//+2348033285737
Website: http://www.godswivesinternational.org

Please help tell your friends to help as well. You will not live alone and your bank will not be empty.

Your servant missioner,

Ayodele Jaiyeola

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Our Projects

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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.

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Our Needs

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  • 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,
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Widows Home

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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