A DAY AT INCRESE: 2018 ALUMNI FORUM
On average INCRESE graduates 100 young people from a one year course on leadership, sexuality, gender and HIV. Over the years INCRESE has recognized that these young people require some mentoring and has put a support system in place where young graduates can be mentored by older graduates. This system brings the alumni annually to […]
Increse at a Glance: A luta continua [Chapter V]
Ellis Island, 1998: Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Aken’Ova beneath the Statue of Liberty. By Amatesiro Dore I Shadow Report “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny,” Wole Soyinka, ’86 Nobel Laureate. It was the summer of ’98. At the United Nations Plaza in New York, the Nigerian Minister of Women’s Affairs […]
Increse at a Glance: Partners and Partakers of the Vision [Chapter IV]
May 2017: Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Aken’Ova with her youngest, Adel, at 10. By Amatesiro Dore I Of what use is talent and passion if there are no opportunities and resources to implement proposals, carry out interventions and cause a positive change? What if you meet a man at a motor garage? How do you know he’s […]
Increse at a Glance: Destiny Begins [Chapter III]
Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Aken’Ova and Françoise Girard, the Current President of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) at an AMANITARE event; Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, Nigeria; 2000. By Amatesiro Dore Destiny is a choice, a culmination of events, reactions and values that guide our souls towards a certain end. Nuhu’s daughter, Cesnabmihilo, would boast about her days […]
Increse at a Glance: There was a Woman [Chapter II]
George Aken’Ova and Cesnabmihilo Dorothy Nuhu at Caen, France, in 1984. By Amatesiro Dore The harsh winter of Caen, north-western France, drove Dorothy [Miss Cesnabmihilo Nuhu] back home. In her own words: it wasn’t conducive or palatable at all. Used to the scorching sun of Sokoto and Maiduguri, the refrigerating French cold compelled her return […]