{"id":24103,"date":"2017-08-07T08:16:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T08:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=24103"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:17:39","slug":"nigeria-supporting-widows-orphans-murcadha-o-flaherty-acn-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2017\/08\/07\/nigeria-supporting-widows-orphans-murcadha-o-flaherty-acn-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA &#8211; Supporting widows and orphans &#8211; Murcadha O Flaherty  ACN UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2><strong>NIGERIA<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Supporting widows and orphans <\/strong><strong>of Boko Haram victims<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vital assistance from a leading Catholic charity is to be provided for Nigerian widows and orphans who lost loved ones in violence perpetrated by Islamist militants Boko Haram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Aid to the Church in Need has agreed a \u00a363,000 (\u20ac70,000) package of food parcels and schooling for 1,000 orphans, and counselling for 500 widows, many of whom saw their husbands killed by the jihadi fighters. The aid for the persecuted Christians is going to the Diocese of Maiduguri, in north-east Nigeria, the area worst affected by Boko Haram which has repeatedly declared its intent to rid the area of Christians.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme of Maiduguri told ACN that the money will go to the large families who \u201chave been struggling through life with great traumatic experiences\u201d. With most families having more than six children, the bishop has established St Judith\u2019s Widow Association to ensure the support fulfils each family\u2019s needs. Each widow will be receiving training with business skills, such as farming and tailoring, and adult education programmes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Boko Haram has destroyed 25 schools in the diocese since 2009. The terrorist\u00a0organisation\u2019s\u00a0name means \u2018Western education is forbidden\u2019. Bishop Doeme stressed the importance of ACN\u2019s grant for orphans\u2019 schooling. He said:\u00a0\u201c[I]t is mostly the children living in the eastern part of the diocese who will benefit from this, as this part is the most affected and the poorest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On an ACN fact-finding and project-assessment trip to north-east Nigeria in March,\u00a0Church sources reported that extremists had killed more than 20,000 people across the region. Among those ACN met on the trip was Agnes, 40, a widow, who is raising nine\u00a0children\u00a0after her husband was shot dead by the extremists for refusing to convert to Islam. She explained how her\u00a0husband, a builder, was working outside a house when Boko Haram surrounded all the people and shot them dead. Agnes said the terrorists refused to allow family members to recover the bodies and that no burial was possible. She said: \u201c[Boko Haram] just left the bodies to rot there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanking ACN for the ongoing support, Bishop Dome said: \u201cI wish, on behalf of all the Christians suffering in this part of the world, to thank you at Aid to the Church in Need for recognising and acknowledging our sufferings, our difficulties, our troubles, our pains and our hardships, and for standing by us in this challenging moment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since 2014 ACN has been providing emergency aid for refugees who have fled across the border to Cameroon to escape the extremists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Murcadha O Flaherty<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> \u2013 ACN UK<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGERIA Supporting widows and orphans of Boko Haram victims &nbsp; Vital assistance from a leading Catholic charity is to be provided for Nigerian widows and orphans who lost loved ones in violence perpetrated by Islamist militants Boko Haram. 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