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Traditionally African women are at the heart of the socio-economic activities of their families.

As a wife, she shoulders her responsibilities very seriously taking care of her husband and his relations cooking and cleaning without support and recognition in most cases.

As a mother ...(Read on)

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WOA - Dairy of Cases

A distressed mother contacted us by telephone one evening to say that Social Services was about to take away her four months old baby who was at the time on admission in hospital for fractures that could not be explained. Mum pleaded for WOA to prevent the baby being taken from her. She was at the time breast-feeding the baby...

We had no doubt that mum loves her baby dearly but, how did little Onome sustain her fractures? For one year, this became a major problem for our project, social services, the solicitor representing mum, medical professionals, psychologists and the Family Court Judges... More on this and other cases

LAUNCHING AFRICAN WOMEN’S WEEK & CONFERENCE ON AFRICAN FAMILY LIFE IN THE UK - 13th March 2008, London SE5 8UB  (click to read)

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