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Nigerian Women Displaced By Boko Haram Struggle To Rebuild Their Lives, Need Jobs

Tuesday, 12 May 2015 02:19
When Modupe Ozolua arrived at a crowded refugee camp in northern Nigeria in February to distribute relief items to those affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, she asked camp organizers and volunteers basic questions about the identities of the displaced women there. What are their names? Where are they from? How many children do they have? No one knew, she said.nigerian-idps
“We were shocked,” said Ozolua, founder and president of the Body Enhancement Foundation, a Nigerian nonprofit organization that helps restore lives of underprivileged Africans. “Nobody had ever asked the women those questions.”
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