By: Mnena Iyorkegh, Abuja
Malaysia High Commission in Nigeria has donated a sum of Five Hundred thousand naira to the Medical Woman Association of Nigeria, to support them in improving the lives and well being of women and girls as well as help them discover their hidden potentials.
Speaking during the handing over ceremony, The Malaysian High commissioner to Nigeria, Ayub Omar, said the monetary donation is in line with the South-South cooperation which is about empowering fellow developing countries to achieve sustainable development.
“In the spirit of South South cooperation, the country of the South should help the other fellow developing countries, that’s the idea. This collaborative approach enables countries to share knowledge, resources and expertise, addressing common developmental challenges”, he said.
The Envoy added that: “By supporting one another, countries like Malaysia and Nigeria can promote inclusive growth, bridging the gap between nations.
You know, we don’t want only Malaysia to develop, but we want our neighbors as well to develop so that both everybody, every country will prosper and we will have more ties, and have more closer collaboration. Hopefully, this donation will be useful for the needy children who needs your care. So I think in terms of health and also education, this is the area that we want to assist Nigeria”, envoy added
Responding to the good gesture, the National President Medical Women Association of Nigeria, Professor Rosemary Ogu, expressed her appreciation to the Malaysian government.
“On behalf of the medical Women’s Association of Nigeria, the umbrella body of female medical and dental doctors in Nigeria, we want to say thank you to the Malaysian High Commission for this donation. This donation is the start of more to come. Because when you collaborate, when you network together, everyone achieves. when you reach out to people, telling them what you’re doing and you get Positive response, it is usually uplifting, and it gives you the wings to fly and do more. As an association in the entire country, sometimes it becomes very difficult to do things because we are a lot. We’re a country of 230 million people, that’s a lot to go around, so every collaboration and every support helps”.
Professor Ogu, also gave a highlight of what the Association has been doing to impact the girl child and humanity as a whole.
“In all the states of the Federation, the medical Women’s Association of Nigeria has carried out programs to uplift and enhance the girl child. These programes varies from education, sensitization to screening, gifting of items, AI access to internet, access to information, access to education, access to health, mental health, physical health, emotional health. So many activities have been held in commemoration of the International Day of the Girl child. We go into communities to talk with students, one on one, give them health information, health education, donation of items, and then mentoring. You may not be able to calculate how much you do with that, but you give these girls an opportunity to see someone they can be like”.
According to her, with adequate support, a girl child can achieve what ever she wants to achieve, she further urged them to believe in them selves.
Nigerian girl child, your tomorrow is greater than your today, your potential is amazing, you can become the best of what you want to be, believe in yourself, you can do it. I am a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. I started as a girl child, tiny girl, not knowing anything, but here we are today with the ambassador of the Malaysian High Commission, planning programs, countrywide programs. So for all adolescents out there, for all youths, for all girls out there, these are the kind of things that you can do, even without you knowing that you have that ability. I’m letting you know that you have that ability.
The Medical Woman’s Association of Nigeria, is a Non- governmental, and non profit organization of female Medical and Dental practitioners, with the mandate to serve humanity in pursuit of positive health programmes/projects to the entire Nigerian populace, with special emphasis on women and children.
