THE Lagos Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women Organisation
(LACCWO) joined their mother body, the World Union of the Catholic Women
Organisation (WUCWO), and colleagues across the world to celebrate this
year’s Catholic Women’s week with the theme Love in Action.
The weeklong event, whose open ceremony took place at Our Lady Mother of Perpetual Help, Victoria Island, Lagos and culminated at Our Lady Queen of Apostles, Ilupeju with awards to priests and parishioners, who have promoted the cause of womanhood centred its teachings on acts of charity and faith.
Held from May 12 to 19, the programme also had a workshop for the youth.
Addressing guests, Mrs. Lilian Famoroti, LACCWO President, said, “it is important to building a society where conflicts are reduced to its barest minimum, noting that the world would have been a better place had people demonstrated genuine love for one another.”
Famoroti called on leaders at all levels to take interest in the wellbeing of their people as a way of positively impacting on them.
According to her while many believe love is gradually disappearing among the younger generation, the Catholic youth group has formed different organisations through which they help the needy among them. She noted that such moves could only be established on love, adding that better role modeling would encourage the youths to do more.
She informed that LACCWO has in the past few years established different platforms through which they reach out to orphans, widows and the needy in the society. She disclosed that the organisation is partnering with the Committee for the Support of the Dignity of Women (COSUDOW), to rehabilitate some of the commercial sex workers deported from Europe.
Coordinator of the committee, Rev. Sister Patricia Ebegbulem, who was honoured for her anti-human trafficking campaign, said many go into prostitution because they were not shown true love, stating that over 70 per cent of the females COSUDOW has met have terrible experiences that could lull even descent person into the act.
Ebegbulem contended that social ills such as human trafficking, armed robbery and youth gangsterism would reduce drastically if parents, guardians and relations show adequate love to their children, assuring them that they have people they could depend on.
The weeklong event, whose open ceremony took place at Our Lady Mother of Perpetual Help, Victoria Island, Lagos and culminated at Our Lady Queen of Apostles, Ilupeju with awards to priests and parishioners, who have promoted the cause of womanhood centred its teachings on acts of charity and faith.
Held from May 12 to 19, the programme also had a workshop for the youth.
Addressing guests, Mrs. Lilian Famoroti, LACCWO President, said, “it is important to building a society where conflicts are reduced to its barest minimum, noting that the world would have been a better place had people demonstrated genuine love for one another.”
Famoroti called on leaders at all levels to take interest in the wellbeing of their people as a way of positively impacting on them.
According to her while many believe love is gradually disappearing among the younger generation, the Catholic youth group has formed different organisations through which they help the needy among them. She noted that such moves could only be established on love, adding that better role modeling would encourage the youths to do more.
She informed that LACCWO has in the past few years established different platforms through which they reach out to orphans, widows and the needy in the society. She disclosed that the organisation is partnering with the Committee for the Support of the Dignity of Women (COSUDOW), to rehabilitate some of the commercial sex workers deported from Europe.
Coordinator of the committee, Rev. Sister Patricia Ebegbulem, who was honoured for her anti-human trafficking campaign, said many go into prostitution because they were not shown true love, stating that over 70 per cent of the females COSUDOW has met have terrible experiences that could lull even descent person into the act.
Ebegbulem contended that social ills such as human trafficking, armed robbery and youth gangsterism would reduce drastically if parents, guardians and relations show adequate love to their children, assuring them that they have people they could depend on.
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