TABITHA GLOBAL Empowers 3000 Widows _Godon-Osagiede

By Ikhili Ebalu, Benin City
The General Overseer of Spirit and Life Family Bible Church, Apostle Mrs Deb’rah Godon-Osagiede on Sunday said that no fewer than 3000 widows have benefited from TABITHA global empowerment programme of the church.

Godon-Osagiede made this known when members of the correspondents chapel, Edo council visited to congratulate her on her recent award as the US congressional 2019 global Woman of Excellence.

She said the programme was currently runing in 19 locations in the six area councils of the federal capital territory FCT.

“I moved to Abuja about 15 years ago and I met some widows and extremely young mothers who were really vulnerable, helpless and hopeless.

“A gearter number of them were those affected by the Boko Haram insurgency and those who lost their husbands to HIV.

“TABITHA global empowerment programme believes that the church must aftect the community, women and Youths.

“We started off by visiting the village head a d firat class class chiefs of Caro and the lord used them to approve land within the palace and we built our church and started the empowerment programme there.

“calling out the widows was not much of a challenge because we use their traditional council to call them out and within an hour about 300 to 400 widows will be out,”: she said.

Godon-Osagiede explained that TABITHA global empowerment programme had three stages adding that, the first stage was to change the mind set of the widow. making them understand that there was no need to depend on anybody for help.

she said” the second stage was training them on 25 skills using the palace as the venue. the third stage was to empower them with starter packs in different skills they ja e learnt.

“We had to ignore some church projects to be able to start and sustain the TABITHA . We do not have grants from anybody. it solely funded by the church.

According to her, we had to organise them i to cooperative groups so that the funds will go round all of them. I also raised reliable leaders that are working with me on the project. they monitor the widows on a monthly basis.

“The programme haa been a success and very fulfilling. I can tell you now the TABITHA widows can now train themselves. My victory is that we have achieved train the trainer.


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