Parents in Nasarawa state communities are lamenting how lack of access to the internet is affecting their children’s participation in online learning. The parents who spoke to MAWA Foundation team that visited some communities in Nasarawa state to gauge the impact of COVID-19 say their kids could not participate in the online school during the …
The Libraries locates at the Shendam and Pankshin Local Government Areas of Plateau state have remained dilapidated despite N12 million allocation for their renovation in the 2018 budget. The Pankshin Library established in 1977 is designed to serve as a hallmark of knowledge and information at the Plateau Central District. Good as the initiative sounds, …
The struggle for COVID-19 survival is increasingly leading to child prostitution in New Karu, Ado, Masaka, and Aso communities of Nasarawa state. At New Karu, Grace Iyadun, a 14 years old girl while speaking to the Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation), said she is forced into prostitution to raise money and feed her family, …
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Residents of the Obinagu Nike community of Enugu state have continued to recount how the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the community economy leading to huge poverty and suffering among residents. Some of the residents who spoke to the Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA – Foundation) official who visited the community …
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Over the last five or six years, much of the discussions around Africa is centered around the growth trajectory which many countries on the continent appear to have been entered into, there is no doubt that African countries have begun to grow after about 25 years of either stagnation or outright regression in their growth …
As communities across West Africa engage in an endless search for healthcare service delivery, motorcycle ambulance has proven to be very imperative in helping the rural residents in addressing healthcare challenges. Most communities in West Africa are now using motorcycles to convey patients to hospitals. Most of the patients are women. In Ghana, the government …
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Mrs. Ngozi Alo, a woman who was affected after the Ebonyi state government demolished her house over an Airport project at her community in Onuachi Umuezeoka, said she cried over the demolition and forceful eviction because she did not have a place to sleep. Alo said her case is more terrible because her house was …