From RAYMOND OZOJI
Wife of the President-General of Umueri community Anambra-East Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chief Mrs. Linda John Metchie has described women as very strong pillars of the families and the society at large.
Mrs. Metchie who made the description during a special programme she organized to celebrate women in this year's International Women's Day Celebration, stressed the need for women to always see themselves as change agents, character molders, role models and pillars of support to their husbands and families.
The one-day special retreat held to celebrate women which was powered by Women Initiative Global (WIG), GCUPS LIMITED and Inspiring Women Initiative (IWI) held at Umueri Recreation Centre Umueri was a veritable platform to educate as well as enlighten the women to take their personal health needs as utmost priority and desist from playing second fiddle in the society.
Resource persons took turns to emphasize on healthy living standards and why it is necessary for women to not only live for their families but also live for themselves because they must be alive to reap the fruits of their labour.
Mrs. Metchie therefore commended the women who attended the special retreat, assuring them that she would contribute her token towards the upliftment and advancement of women in the communities especially the poor and the indigent ones amongst them.
She equally commended wife of the governor Dr. Mrs. Nonye Soludo whom she said has used her healthy living initiative to better as well as transform the lives of women in Anambra State. Mrs. Metchie noted that herself and her husband Amb. Dr. John Metchie have been in the forefront of empowering women and children especially those in the grassroots educationally and otherwise, stressing that helping humanity is a like vocation to them.
She therefore reiterated that with the support of her husband, she would continue to engage women in the state and accelerate actions towards lifting them out of hunger, poverty and unemployment as she believes that if a woman is adequately empowered then a nation has been adequately empowered.
Mrs. Metchie who lauded massive transformations in the state health sector, noted that the free antenatal services for pregnant women, free child delivery and all other free packages showed that the government of Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo holds women in very high esteem.