50 young women attended a workshop in Yola. The focus of the workshop was to teach about entrepreneurship along with a hands on session. Many women are unemployed and lack the skills and initiative to provide for themselves. Poverty and hunger are rampant in Northeastern Nigeria and the situation is compounded by the large numbers
IDPs
Traveling with Markus Gamache
By Deb Ziegler We have been blessed to host Markus Gamache as he hosted us when visited in Nigeria. One body in Christ, across the ocean… we have seen and heard each other’s journey and we have been blessed. It was a busy two weeks, we traveled over 2000 miles and spoke in 10 different
Hope in Starting Again – A visit to Yola IDP camp
Contributed by Pat Krabacher We arrived at the Yola camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) and Salamatu Billi (wife of the EYN President, Rev. Joel Billi) seemed very happy to be with the women and she joined them in energetically singing warm songs of welcome to our Fellowship Tour. I could not help but wonder
Humbled by an Onion
By Deb Ziegler While interviewing a family at Masaka, an internally displaced persons care center in Nigeria, I learned about the needs of one father. I asked him what his needs are. He said
Stories from Nigeria: Disempowerment as an IDP
Disempowerment as an IDP – Asabe Being an internally displaced person (IDP) in Nigeria means that one is no longer able to live in one’s own home. Here in Nigeria one and a half million persons have become displaced because of the attacks and threats from Boko Haram. Being displaced means having to relocate to