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Created: Mar 04, 2009
Updated: Nov 06, 2009
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Mary Omble Wuya
MWuya
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Mary is the coordinator of a grassroots non-governmental organization in Jos, Plateau State Nigeria. Mary's NGO focuses on educating rural women on issues of clean water, sanitation and hygiene, reproductive health and micro-financing. She is committed to empowering women to promote healthy, equitable communities.
As the founder of the organization, Organized Centre for Empowerment and Advocacy in Nigeria (OCEAN), Mary has helped to establish 52 women groups in rural communities. These women are organized into groups to encourage and teach each other skills. Her groups also do advocacy work for single women to help boost their morale and income base. Mary also leads HIV/AIDS leadership training sessions and teaches life skills for women and adolescent girls.
"We try as much as possible to let out women groups contribute in all our activities and projects, so they can sustain the projects when we have disengaged ourselves. For instance, we carried out a project with UN-Habitat on Rapid Gender Assessment as it affects water supply in urban cities....We mobilized women groups and advocated for clean environment through good hygiene and sanitation, since there is an unavoidable link between water, hygiene and sanitation. As a back drop of our advocacy efforts, these women have now formed volunteers hygiene promotion clubs in order to sustain the campaign within their communities."
As the founder of the organization, Organized Centre for Empowerment and Advocacy in Nigeria (OCEAN), Mary has helped to establish 52 women groups in rural communities. These women are organized into groups to encourage and teach each other skills. Her groups also do advocacy work for single women to help boost their morale and income base. Mary also leads HIV/AIDS leadership training sessions and teaches life skills for women and adolescent girls.
"We try as much as possible to let out women groups contribute in all our activities and projects, so they can sustain the projects when we have disengaged ourselves. For instance, we carried out a project with UN-Habitat on Rapid Gender Assessment as it affects water supply in urban cities....We mobilized women groups and advocated for clean environment through good hygiene and sanitation, since there is an unavoidable link between water, hygiene and sanitation. As a back drop of our advocacy efforts, these women have now formed volunteers hygiene promotion clubs in order to sustain the campaign within their communities."
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OCEAN will be Hosting Mariah Klingsmith this month from the 11, April, 2009. She will be helping members of the organization build the biosand filter, develop a bussiness plan to market the filters and also the teach the women how to carry out water testing. She will also be visiting some of our project sites and the rural communities we work with. We had attended the wonderful African Women and Water Conference Organized by the Women's Earth Alliance, A Single Drop and Crab grass last year in Kenya. We welcome the opportunity this conference has given us to interact with other women around the world and a special thanks to Melinda who has pioneered the event. Now we hope to step down our own mini community women water technology transfer project with expert advice from Mariah!
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hi mary
your profile and role as a social entrepreneur is interesting
I run a community based organisation in Cameroon called Life Enhansers Group.
we are into the process of going into micro finance as social entrepreneurs.
i will like to network with your organisation
Thanks Roseline Batcha