Mrs Obiano Lands Sun Newspaper Most Supportive First Lady 2019 Award
A delegation from the Sun Publishing Limited, Nigeria’s renowned tabloid, will confer the most Supportive First Lady of the Year 2019. Award on the wife of the Governor of Anambra State, and founder of Caring Family Enhancement Initiative, CAFE, Dr Mrs. Ebelechukwu Obiano.
The award review panel found Mrs Obiano worthy to be so decorated in recognition of her selfless and outstanding work in human capacity development.
CAFE, her charity organisation, has built and given twenty-seven free houses to indigent widows and trained and empowered over five-thousand-four-hundred of them.
The NGO also gave women and youths life-sustaining skills, facilitated free cleft lip /palate surgeries for more than one hundred children with congenital mouth disorder, provided free prosthetic limbs to two-thousand-eight-hundred beneficiaries, promoted hygiene and dignity of women with twenty-two public toilets built in rural markets among others.
The advent of Covid-19 with its debilitating impact stalled the award conferment ceremony, an elaborate event held every year to recognize achievers in various categories.
In keeping with its goal of inspiring leadership in various fields, the Sun Publishing team decided that a modest presentation event would help sustain the tradition of excellence.
Dr Mrs. Obiano long foray into charity is derived from a family tradition that came handy in support of her husband on assumption of office as Governor of Anambra state and has been enhanced by dint of commitment and perseverance.
Mrs Obiano has been a recipient of several awards both locally and internationally, all in recognition of her commitment to charity and welfare of the less privileged.
