Provide Conflict Transformation training to the leaders of women’s faith groups through workshops and resource materials. The training includes guidelines on how to ‘step-down’ the training received to the members of their faith groups.
We provide a forum for leaders and members of Muslim and Christian women’s faith organizations to come together in sincere and concrete dialogue
We enable Muslim and Christian women’s faith groups to work together in the peace-building process to address issues that are causing conflict.
We facilitate Muslim and Christian women’s faith organizations to work together to concretely address women’s common concerns..
We bring Muslim and Christian women, members of faith groups, together regularly to grow in understanding and friendship and to discuss diverse themes related to conflict, peace and women’s common concerns.
OUR SIX THEMATIC AREAS
* Interfaith Understanding and Collaboration.
* Gender Poverty and Inclusion, Girl Child Education, Economic Empowerment and Disability Issues.
* Health Environment and Ecology.
* Peace Building Conflict Analysis and Transformation
* Anti-Trafficking.
* Good Governance and Citizen Participation.
Here in Northern Nigeria, Muslims and Christians often look on one another with distrust. The fact that violence and destruction are perpetuated here in the name of religion is too well known to us. As women of faith we must not allow this to continue.
Unless we face women’s concerns and confront the root cause of women’s poverty we will not effectively enable women to participate more fully in peace-building process; nor will we empower women, the members of our faith-groups, to better help build and shape democracy, justice and right in our country.
Provide Conflict Transformation training to the leaders of women’s faith groups through workshops and resource materials. The training includes guidelines on how to ‘step-down’ the training received to the members of their faith groups.
Provide training and experience of Interfaith Peace building and Spirituality to the leaders of women’s faith groups through workshops and resource materials so that they in turn can transmit this training to the members of their faith groups.
Sensitize key stakeholders of women’s faith groups, including male religious, traditional and political leaders, about the need for interreligious dialogue and for women’s participation in the same.
Reach out to market women, youth groups, farmers and other grassroots groups to sensitize them about the need for us to collaborate with one another as people of faith..
Use the media to transmit a message of peace and to urge people of faith to peaceful coexistence and to dialogue.
Interfaith Forum of Muslim and Christian Women’s Association (a.k.a Women’s Interfaith Council).
As women of faith, Muslims and Christians, we have so much in common, that we value and share
we face our concerns together, inspired by our respective religions and we share on all we have in common
WIC expanded her project implementation area to include Benue State. Accordingly, WIC registered her presence by paying courtesy visits to relevant stakeholders in the state. The visits provided opportunities to establish partnerships and collaborations. There were courtesy visits to the Catholic Bishop of Gboko Diocese, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Mkar, Mkar, the Women's Wing of the Christian Association of Nigeria (WOWICAN) Benue State Chapter, and the Federation of Muslim Women Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN).
The project was implemented in two phases; phase one was implemented between April 7 and 8, 2022, and focused on giving back hope to the IDPs who have suffered losses of loved ones, properties, and livelihoods, while at the same time introducing them to aspects of caring for the environment rather than overly depending on it and harming it in the process. The Second Phase was between May 5 and 6, 2022, and focused on building the capacities of the IDPs
The Women's Interfaith Council (WIC), in collaboration with the Sisters of Our Lady of Apostles (OLA), expanded their environmental care project to the Ortese Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Benue State's Guma Local Government Area. IDP camps are targeted in the environmental care project because of the extent to which individuals and families depend on their new environment for survival, thereby degrading the environment in the process.
The JISRA intra-religious capacity-building trainings for the religious actors were conducted separately for both Christian and Muslim religious actors from the Hayin Banki and Kurmi Mashi communities of Kaduna North and Kaduna South LGAs of Kaduna State. The training activities are in the intra-religious pathway of JISRA project implementation. The trainings for religious actors took place between February 21 and 25 for the Christians and February 28 and March 4 for the Muslims. Both trainings were residential, held at the Crocodile Hotel, and had 44 participants: 22 Christians and 22 Muslims.
Seminar , Events, Workshop and Meetings we held over the years
Date: Friday, April 26, 2022
On April 26, 2022, the Women Interfaith Council (WIC) held her 6th Annual Ramadan Lecture at Ekemode Hall Ansar-Ud-Deen Society Kaduna State. Ramadan is a beautiful month filled with Ibadah (supplications), giving, forgiving, and seeking forgiveness.
Date: Tuesday 2nd– 3rd June, 2022
The Capacity Building Training for Women Interfaith Council Faith Leaders which took place 2nd– 3rd June, 2022 was designed to enable a better appreciation and understanding of WIC as an organization in terms of its vision, mission, core values, and organizational structure.
Date: 6th September, 2021
The Country Coordinator for JISRA Nigeria, Mr. Istifanus Gimba accompanied by the Program Officer Mr. Jude Likita and the Advocacy Officer Mr. Reuben Emmanuel Esq led the JISRA local partners on a courtesy visit to the Kaduna State Peace Commission to introduce the JISRA project
Date: 6th Noveber, 2021
To further strengthen WIC’s mission and to ensure communities continue to engage in the ideals of peacebuilding across the State; WIC thought is necessary through the mission intervention to organize a village square/town hall meeting with the theme: “Policing our Communities for Sustainable Peace The Role of Women and Youth”,
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