SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: The Eye Opener Women and Youth Empowerment Holds Workshop on Maternal Mortality. "I Seek For A Healthy and Better Society for Women/Youths In Our Society".... Margaret Julius

Margaret Julius, Founder/Nat. President 

Bringing succor to the less privileged persons in suburbs of Kaduna state has become the passion of Margaret Julius, National President of The Eye Opener Women and Youth Empowerment, a Non-Governmental Organization.

The Hakimi of Makera Community 

The Eye Opener Women and Youth Empowerment, a brain child of the founder and chairperson, has been able to uplift many indigent persons from the streets of Makera, a community situated in Kaduna South Local Government area of Kaduna state.

A cross section of participants 

At a widely attended One Day Sensitization workshop which held at Makera Resource Centre on Saturday, 07^th July, 2018, various resource persons and speakers commended the President and Initiator of The Eye Opener Women and Youth Empowerment for the over ten (10) years long activities of the Foundation which has given life and support to many indigent persons in the community and expressed their profound appreciation to Margaret Julius for keeping faith with the people.

 

One of the participants, who spoke with Naij News Alert, said she owes so much gratitude to the President of The Eye Opener Women and Youth Empowerment for all she has done for her.

According to Rekiya Usman, “Madam Margaret has touched the lives of so many in Makera here and I pray that Allah continues to protect and help as she is helping us. She is a very good woman with a large heart”, she said.  

Mrs. Margaret Julius says her dream for a better society filled with healthy and safer populace is what drives her to give back to the society.

Margaret Julius, emphasizing a point while addressing the media

“If only every stakeholder can contribute his/her own quota to the development of the people, the world would be a better place”, she said.

The soft spoken Margaret Julius appealed to the gathering to observe a healthy societal lifestyle which is key to a healthy population.

According to the President of the NGO, “the Eye Opener Women and Youth Empowerment foundation, started off in 2009 as a pet project without external funding and I have single-handedly borne all of the foundations’ needs and burdens and also, built it to what it is today”.

Some of the resource persons present educated the participants at the workshop on various ways that women/youths in the society especially in the various communities can improve upon the environmental challenges around them and make their society a better place. 

Also, one of the resource persons took out time to educate the gathering on health and environmental causes of maternal mortality which has become another new killer of women in the society.      

Present at the event were the National Patron of The Eye Opener Women and Youth Empowerment, Rev. Emmanuel Yahaya    Hakimi of Makera, the representative of the Division Police Officer of Makera, the representative of the Nigerian Red Cross, traditional rulers from the adjoining communities in Kakuri, members of the Kaduna South Concerned stakeholders forum and invited guests from across the state.