Standup for Women Society(SWS) Edo State Embarks on Prison Visit, Admonishes Female Inmates on Prospects Behind Bars



Benin City - Female inmates of the Benin Correctional Centre, Sapele Road in Benin City, Edo State have been tasked on the need not to regard their incarceration as the end of life. 

This was part of admonition given by Executive Members of the Standup for Women Society(SWS), Edo State Chapter today as they   embarked on an Advocacy Visit to the Correctional Centre. 

The Advocacy Visit, according to Liberator Daisy Osunde, Chairperson, SWS Edo State is part of activities to mark the 2022 Independence Day Celebration and was tagged: Liberating Their Inner Minds. 
Liberator Osunde tasked Female inmates to see their imprisonment as a means to achieving a positive end, and not an end in itself. 

"Use this period of your lack of freedom to reflect on your lives and free your minds of anything that may cause you setback when you eventually regained your freedom. 

Great minds in history have achieved great successes, even in chains. We are aware of the many opportunities that abound here even behind bars. We are aware of skill acquisition workshops, even opportunities to further your studies. Take advantage of such opportunities to improve yourselves. Don't regard those of us outside these great walls as better off, but see these walls as a giant board on which you can rewrite your story and make it more meaningful. " 

The Chairperson also counseled the inmates on their health and need to try and maintain personal hygiene despite their situations and assured them that the organization will be visiting them from time to time. 

Also speaking, Liberator Grace Ijeoma Umeh, Secretary of the Organization,  assured the inmates that the issues raised by them will be addressed with various partners of the organization, like FIDA and the NBA, particularly on the need for pro bono lawyers for some inmates who needed legal services but could not afford it, payment of fines for those whose sentences came with options of fine but could not afford the fines and remained behind bars and other issues of basic  needs,  like toiletries, especially sanitary pads. 
Prayer points were raised for the inmates,  and Liberators Kate Oyakhilome and Angela Irianele, Vice Chairperson and Public Relations Officer of the organization respectively led in the prayers. 

Provisions  were presented by the group for the inmates, and they  included all kinds of toiletries,.like sanitary  pads, tissue papers, cartons of soaps and detergents, and toothbrushes. Bails of clothes, sweatshirts and footwears were also among the presentations made. 
The Advocacy Visit is one of several of such visits embarked by the organization and targeted at empowering  and helping women and the girl-child to realize their full potentials in life.
Also in attendance was Liberator Joy Omorodion, Welfare Officer of the SWS, Edo State Chapter.

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