Though based in the Eastern region of Nigeria, Abraham’s Children Foundation has spread its goodwill across the rest of Nigeria and is passionate about going beyond. For them, its about promoting peace among communities and providing help after the event of a crisis.
 
In this interview with YNaija’s Impact365, the Executive Director of the NGO, Victor Dorawa Koreyo shares the details of all the humanitarian work ACF has done and how they plan to expand in coming years.
 
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It is a worrisome issue for which the world has been looking for solution for years. Gender-based violence is as old as time itself, but its targets are the soft and vulnerable women and children. A World Health Organisation (WHO) report says: “One woman in three has faced gender-based violence, including sexual and physical violence”.
Gender-based violence, according to WHO Director-General Margret Chan, is a global health problem of epidemic proportion.

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has launched Africa Human Development Report 2016 to accelerate gender equality and women’s empowerment in the continent.
 
The report was jointly launched on Tuesday by Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, UN Assistant Secretary General and UNDP Africa Director and some Federal Government officials at the ongoing 3-day African Economic Conference in Abuja.
 
Dieye said that the issue of women empowerment started with Beijing Declaration, noting that a lot of progress had been recorded since then.
 

The Federal Ministry of Health in partnership with Population Services International, PSI, and the Society for Family Health, SFH, is unveiling in Abuja today, results of the FPwatch research on Nigeria’s contraceptive methods and services.

FPwatch is a multi-country research project designed to generate evidence on modern contraceptive methods and service availability through surveys administered to all public and private health facilities and outlets.