About
us
In June 2002, Chief Dr. Uwa Onyioha-Osimiri created
in Michigan, the African Women Economic Consortium
(AWEC) and invited other women to buy into the
vision of establishing Sustainable Housing with
micro-lending in Africa to support families and
orphans and provide HIV/AIDS awareness workshops.
Those women were Ugo Ezeala, Chief Claudia Emezue
Willis, Angel Zoe, Adaora Osimiri, and Ella Bailey.
Since then, other women have joined the group.
In addition to the Triad- Problem and Risk Mitigation,
Grant Writing and Financial Literacy workshops,
we host Annual Awards Luncheon” Against
All Odds” which honors community leadership.
In
October 2002, we put in place a provisional committee
to oversee the organization of the first HIV/AIDS
conference, which brought together the medical
community, and friends of persons living with
the virus, to discuss the political, social, and
economic impact of HIV/AIDS. Since then, AWEC
has held four annual HIV/AIDS Health Conferences.
There
are six members of the Board of Directors.
There are 4 countries selected presently to host
the Village of Hope Projects- Nigeria, Cameroon,
Niger and Kenya. We are anticipating adding more
as we complete the pilot projects.
