Widows and Economic Empowerment Foundation (WEEF) is a non-governmental organization incorporated on 16th May, 2008. It emerged after its Chairperson, Rhoda Fwanje Zakka’s tenure as Chairperson of Nigerian Air Force Officers Wives Association (NAFOWA). Most of those who had benefitted from NAFOWA’S activates during her tenure and were now able to support themselves independently encouraged others to link support these category of poor women on continues basis. WEEF was incorporated as a platform to articulate the challenges and modality for meeting their various needs.
Besides guiding very poor widows on how to add value to very little resources in their possession, WEEF takes exemption to the continuous deployment of unacceptable and degrading traditional practices to subject widows to hardships and deprivations. As a result of this, we have commenced limited Enlightenment Campaigns via Seminars, Newsletters, radio programmes and Press Releases to draw the attention of violators of women’s rights to the implication and consequences of their actions which