Focused on improving widows’ daily living conditions, including welfare services, emergency aid, and housing solutions. This program addresses immediate and long-term needs. Every donation provides meals, housing, and basic necessities, ensuring widows can live safely and with dignity.
Establishing groups where widows learn skills, create products, and sell them at local markets, fostering independence and self-confidence. Your support funds training, materials, and group activities, helping widows generate income and gain hope for a self-sufficient future.
Highlighting the challenges widows face worldwide, from extreme poverty to social exclusion. This initiative raises awareness and provides targeted support across multiple countries.
Since 2017, HEART for Widows International has been dedicated to empowering widows in Nigeria through our comprehensive training center. Here, widows acquire valuable skills such as soap making, sewing, baking, cloth dyeing, hairdressing, and more.
What Our Widows Do
Training Center
At our center, widows learn practical and income-generating skills. They create products such as toothpaste, leather bags, school bags, and other handmade items that can be sold within their communities.
Community Shop
Our shop provides a vital marketplace where widows sell their handmade goods and also resell essential food items like noodles, rice, spices, chicken, and chicken feed. This creates daily income and strengthens their financial independence.
Agricultural Production
On our four plots of farmland, widows cultivate a variety of food and cash crops—corn, cassava, yam, ginger, banana, vegetables, cocoa, and more. From cassava, they also produce and sell garri, a staple food that provides steady income.
Hotel Operations
Widows rotate through different roles in the organization’s small hotel, participating in cleaning tasks, shopping for kitchen supplies, and supporting chefs with meal preparation. This provides valuable work experience and diversified income opportunities.
Bread Production
Our shop produces bread buns, adding yet another income source to support the widows and their families.
More Than Work—A Community of Support
Beyond practical tasks, widows gather regularly for mutual support. They sing, pray, share their burdens, and help each other in times of need. This sense of belonging is just as impactful as the financial empowerment.
Behind every donation is a real story. Meet the widows whose courage inspires our mission and discover how your support transforms lives.
Mary, a devoted mother fighting to give her daughter a future, is struggling to afford the €200 needed for Hallelujah to begin her Computer Science studies.
After losing her only source of income in a tragic accident, 82-year-old Mama Florence received a new sewing machine through a generous donation, allowing her to regain independence and hope.
Beatrice’s home was demolished overnight, yet her resilience and faith shine as she rebuilds her life with grace despite unimaginable hardship
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