BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS. (PHOTOS).

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 BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS  Benue State has taken a major step toward strengthening child protection and social welfare services with the graduation of 60 Auxiliary Social Workers (ASWs) trained to serve vulnerable children and families at the grassroots. The graduation ceremony, held on Wednesday, marked the successful completion of a programme jointly supported by the Benue State Government, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and the Benue State Bureau for International Cooperation and Development (BICD). Speaking at the event themed “Building Community Resilience Through Professional Auxiliary Social Work,” the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hon. Mrs. Theresa Apochi-Ikwue, described the initiative as a strategic response to gaps in child protection services across the state. She said the newly trained ASWs would...

JO ANN ROBINSON {APRIL 17,1912-AUGUST 29,1992} AND OTHERS.

                                            She served as the president of the Women's Political Council in Montgomery.More than 18 months before the arrest of Rosa Parks,Robinson wrote to Montgomery's Mayor as Women Political Council president,threatening a black boycott of city buses if abuses were not curtailed.Following Rosa Parks arrest in December 1955,Robinson played a central role in the start of the protest by producing the leaflets that spread word of the boycott among the black citizens of Montgomery.View the flier below.                                       The arrest of Rosa Parks December 1 1955                                                                                                          Black citizens in Montgomery begin a one day bus boycott to protest the arrest of Rosa Parks.Black community leaders,impressed with the boycott's success,decided to lengthen the boycott and press for summary elimiation of segregation in the city bus system.The Montgomery Improvement Association {MIA} is formed to coordinate the boycott,and Martin Luther King jr of Dexter Avenue Baptist church is elected president connection with the boycott,king delivers his first civil rights speech at the Holt street Baptist church in Montgomery.                                                                                                                                                                                           

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