The Customs Officers Wives Association (COWA), a non-government organisation, has said that it has concluded plans to train about 1,200 of its members to enable them to manage their businesses without compromising their duties on the home front.
Addressing selected journalists in Lagos on Wednesday, the National President of COWA, Mrs Kikelomo Adeniyi, said that the group is also planning to empower and support the wives and children of fallen Customs officers.
She said that the group wants to focus on providing educational support and scholarships to the children of fallen officers through the payment of school fees and the vocational empowerment of the bereaved wives to make them self-reliant.
“We estimate that up to 1,200 COWA members will benefit from these trainings between now and the end of 2024.
Our planned support for the wives and children of fallen officers is to enable surviving spouses to cater to the needs of their children.
COWA intends to establish contacts with as many of such families as possible, especially the ones that were recently bereaved, and extend helping hands to them.” he said.
“We will also extend love, care, and support to orphans and orphanages. We know how strategic Lkeja is, and we have so many officers staying around Ikeja.
That’s why COWA as an association sees it as a need for us to have our own primary and secondary schools here in Lkeja.”
Adeniyi said that the group intends to start the project to enable them to provide good, qualitative, and affordable education to their children, reduce the financial burden on customs officers who pay exorbitant fees to educate their children outside, and also create empowerment opportunities for our members who are in the teaching profession.
“It will also enable us to inculcate the high moral values associated with the Nigeria Customs Service in our children. It is in this regard that we seek your support, for us to come together as one to actualise this dream by being a part of this association and contributing your quota as and when necessary.
We know how supportive our husbands are of us. And we appreciate them wholeheartedly and equally promise them our unending love and loyalty as usual.”
According to her, “We have identified specific areas of need that we intend to focus our attention on in the short and medium terms.
These areas include training our members on family health and wellbeing, skill acquisition, business training, and empowerment programmes; providing support to the wives and children of fallen officers; supporting orphanages; embarking on a campaign against drug abuse; and promoting basic education.” She concluded.
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