WHAT is International Women’s Society all about?
IWS is a charity organisation, we are essentially into social services and also focus on female gender.
How have you been helping female gender?
W e run the association through many committees and every member is expected to belong to a committee. We have Committee for Widows, that is because we empower widows, we call it widow’s fund.
We have a committee for a day nursery because we have a day nursery in Yaba for children in the nursery school; that has been on for over 50 years. Most of our ex- students are responsible adults in the society. We also run a trolley service at LUTH for patients in the hospital.
Every Tuesday, we carry our trolley and give the patients reading materials just a way of helping them to bury their worries and make life easier for them.
We also have a home for found children at Ijebu Ode; we give scholarship to indigent students and deserving girls. Those are the things we do generally. We have been doing these in the last 57 years. We focus on empowering women; we have skill centres where we train women, even men too, to acquire skills that would enable them earn honest living. We train them in catering, in fashion, in decoration, computer, we even do adult literacy.
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