Her Excellency Mrs. Fatoumatta Bah-Barrow, The First Lady of The Republic of The Gambia Honored with the Distinguished Global Award for Excellence in Women, Children, and Youth Development and the Blessings of Africa Iconic Champion of Change Award
Dr. Queen Blessing Itua, Visionary Founder of Global Empowerment Movement (GEM) USA is proud to present Her Excellency Mrs. Fatoumatta Bah-Barrow with the GEM USA prestigious, Distinguished Global Award on the occasion of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 74) High-Level Segment, in recognition of her outstanding work as the First Lady of Gambia.
As the loving mother of Gambia, we are happy to collaborate with the Gambian Mission to the United Nations to celebrate Her Excellency for her dedication to the establishment of programs to reduce extreme poverty, assisting marginalized rural women, girls and vulnerable children in The Gambia; which closely aligns with the mission of our organization – Empowerment!
GEM takes delight in honoring and celebrating leaders dedicated to positively impact the lives of the people that they serve. Her Excellency has been exemplary at using her platform to making a difference, including championing the Children on the Move initiative and for advocating for the implementation of enacted legislation and policies that protect the rights of children. These are very laudable efforts that have received international recognition today.
Dr. Queen Blessing also presented a Georgia State resolution from Rep. Karen Bennett, the Chair of Georgia State Black Caucus, the largest in the United States
Her excellency graciously graced our event to celebrate our immediate past Distinguished Global Award Recipient, Her Excellency Dr. (Mrs.) Aisha Buhari, the First Lady of Nigeria – who was honored for Excellence in Women Empowerment and Gender Development during the 73rd Segment of United Nations General Assembly.
We are proud to amplify voices at this very special occasion to remind us of the very important, selfless work of leaving “no one woman, youth, or child behind.”
We celebrate Her Excellency achievements for using her platform as the First lady to positively impact lives and the society that she serves, as a role model.
As we celebrate Her Excellency with the distinguished Global Award for Excellence, and the Blessings of Africa, Iconic Champion of Change, we used the occasion to motivate others to be the Blessings of their Communities and Champions of Positive Impact, needed to change our narratives – the African narratives.HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN FOR THIS GLOBAL RECOGNITION!
The Global Empowerment Movement GEM USA recognizes the First Lady for using her Foundation to impact lives of the #Gambians, especially women and children. #AfricaCableNetwork
On 15 March 2019, the Global Empowerment Movement (GEM) USA Corporation will host the Sixty-Third Annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) Event – the largest annual gathering of women at the United Nations side event to preview and discuss Film Presentation: “Activating Women Participation in Politics for Sustainable Development” as well as Award Ceremony at the
United Nations Church Center, Eighth Floor,
Address: 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017.
Time: 6:15pm -7:45pm.
The United Nations Committee on the Status of Women (CSW63) event will preview “Empowered,” a film based on the following excerpts from the book: “We Are the Blessings of Africa, Rebuilding Our greatness Together,”endorsed by the First Lady of Nigeria, Dr. (Mrs.) Aisha Buhari.
“Empower a woman, and the issues of human trafficking, domestic violence, abuse, impoverishment, and abandonment will be tackled with ease – excerpts from our latest book, ’We Are the Blessings of Africa, Reshaping Our Greatness Together’
The book and movie are powerful tools for change, calling on the empowerment of women and youths as a critical first step to Human Trafficking and poverty eradication and the link to sustainable development.
The Global Empowerment Movement (GEM) USA Corporation is proud to announce Our Award Recipients during the 2019 CSW63 Event
Ambassador Fatima Kyari Mohammed, the Permanent Observer of the Africa Union to the United Nations, Recipient of the Gobal Ambassador Award
Ms. Lucia Kaiser, a two-time Emmy Award-Winning Producer/Humanitarian Recipient of the Global Empowerment Award
Join us in honoring and thanking Her Excellency Ambassador Fatima Kyari Mohammed and Ms. Lucia Kaiser for this prestigious honor for Excellence in Service. The awards go as part of GEM celebration of the leaders and individuals who are role models. The Global Empowerment Movement (GEM) USA Corporation takes delight in celebrating the leaders and individuals who exemplify what we advocate.
Ambassador Fatima Kyari Mohammed, the Permanent Observer of the Africa Union to the United Nations was chosen for this award due to her using her platform to work with displaced, vulnerable communities from Northeast Nigeria particularly women and children and youth empowerment as the Founder of the LikeMinds Project, a non-profit, non-partisan Organization.
Ms. Lucia Kaiser, a two-time Emmy Award-Winning Producer/Humanitarian, was chosen for this award due to her outstanding lifetime contributions to humanitarian causes and her pioneering role model to women empowerment.
The Special Guest of Honor/Chair of the Side Event isthe First Lady of Nigeria, Her Excellency Dr. (Mrs.) Aisha Buhari, 2018 Recipient of GEM USA Most Distinguished Global Award for Excellence in Women Empowerment and Gender Development – Represented by DR. HAJO SANNI – OON, PHD, Senior Special Assistant to the Wife of the President of Nigeria.
The objective of the United Nations Side Event is to highlight women empowerment and women participation in leadership solution to Human Trafficking/ Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Community Development as well as celebrate women role models.
We Are the Blessings of Africa book and the Empowered movie are produced by Dr. Queen Blessing Itua, Recipient of the President Obama Lifetime Achievement Award/UN Representative/President, Global Empowerment Movement.
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On 15 March 2019, The Global Empowerment Movement (GEM) USA Corporation will premiere the “Empowered” Film Presentation: Activating Women Participation in Politics for Sustainable Development at the Sixty-Third Annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) event – the largest annual gathering of womenat the United Nations Church Center in New York.Address: 777 United Nations Plaza, Eighth Floor, New York, NY 10017. Time: 6:15pm -7:45pm.
The United Nations Committee on the Status of Women (CSW63) event will launch “Empowered,” a film based on the following excerpts from the book: “We Are the Blessings of Africa, Rebuilding Our greatness Together,”endorsed by the First Lady of Nigeria, Dr. (Mrs.) Aisha Buhari.
“Empower a woman, and the issues of human trafficking, domestic violence, abuse, impoverishment, and abandonment will be tackled with ease – excerpts from our latest book, ’We Are the Blessings of Africa, Reshaping Our Greatness Together’
The book and the movie are produced by Dr. Queen Blessing Itua, Recipient of the President Obama Lifetime Achievement Award/UN Representative, President, Global Empowerment Movement. The book and movie are powerful tools for change, calling on the empowerment of women and youths as a critical first step to Human Trafficking and poverty eradication and the link to sustainable development.
The objective of the United Nations event is to highlight women empowerment and women participation in leadership solution to Human Trafficking/ Poverty Eradication and Sustainable Community Development.
The occasion of the film presentation will also serve as Global leadership and service award. The First Lady of Ogun State will be bestowed with the Distinguished Global Award for Excellence in Women Empowerment and Lucia Kiaser with the prestigious Global Empowerment Award for Excellence in Service
Dr. Queen Blessing, a resident of the Atlanta metro area and recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Award from President Barack Obama is the Founder/Executive President of Global Empowerment Movement (GEM) Corporation, a United Nations Accredited non-profit organization through which she collaborates with the United Nations and other organizations to promote and advocate women empowerment as the critical first step to empowering not just the woman, but the family, the Community and thereby tackling the issues of Human Trafficking from the grassroot levels.
Dr. Queen Blessing is engaged in various community based nonprofit empowerment causes in Africa and United States of America.
http://drqueenblessing.com/author/; www.blessingofafrica.org; and www.globalempowermentmovement.org
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Dr Queen Blessing Itua Honors the Firstlady of Nigeria with 3 awards
1. The Resolution from Georgia Senator Steve Henson, District 41.
2. The Honorary Citizen of Georgia Award
3. The Distinguished Global Award for Excellence in Women Empowerment and Gender Development by the Global Empowerment Movement Corporation, USA
Nigeria’s first lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, has been conferred with Distinguished Global Award for Excellence in Women Empowerment and Gender Development by Global Empowerment Movement Corporation, U.S.
Mrs. Buhari was also conferred with the Honorary Citizen of Georgia Award from the State of Georgia.
She received the awards at the Nigeria House in New York for her efforts at fighting gender-based victimisation, human trafficking and for uplifting the women in Nigeria.
Founder and President of the organisation, Dr Blessing Itua, said the organisation particularly commended Mrs Buhari for advancing the causes of women and children in Nigeria through her pet project: ‘Future Assured’.
“Mrs Aisha Buhari, through her various programmes on women, young girls and children support, has assisted, integrated and provided hope to numerous victims of some of the societal ills in Nigeria, including human trafficking.
“She has also been a strong advocate against victimisation, inhumanity, including the rape of minors.
“Within this context, she has complimented government’s various initiatives by teaming up with relevant stakeholders in Nigeria and beyond to address some feminine challenges in the country,” Itua said.
Receiving the awards, the wife of the president thanked the organisation for considering her worthy of recognition for the award on fighting gender-based victimisation and uplifting womenfolk in Nigeria through the Future Assured programme.
“My driving force has been that of commitment and passion in this regard. Women have been at the receiving end of conflict, instances of abuse and victimisation all over the globe.
“I make it my responsibility to do the very best I can to give hope to those affected and to discourage other cases from happening in Nigeria.
“As you are all aware, my Future Assured initiative executes a number of programmes to uplift the status of women through health advocacy and support economic and educational empowerment, protection against abuse and encouraging political involvement among the women.
“Our hope is that women will become more aware of the opportunities open to them to live better lives while being confident of the society’s protection,” Buhari said.
She dedicated the award to “all struggling women and hope that the award will ginger more action in the area of protection against gender bias and victimisation and uplifting the lives of women all over the world.”
Buhari said that the First Lady of The Gambia had adopted the Future Assured to be replicated in her country.
The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, testified about the work the Future Assured had been doing, especially in the north east, and congratulated the wife of the president for the recognition.
Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Bande, while commenting on the menace of human trafficking, said “Nigerians are people who admit to our problems and we are starting to address them’’.
“Nigeria has what it takes to do what is right and to take its rightful place among the comity of nations. “In the U.S., great things are happening though Nigerians; Nigerians are doing great works here. There are things they are not happy about just like those at home in Nigeria.
“But we are doing everything possible to address them. This will involve international cooperation,” the envoy said.
He commended the wife of the president for coming to the Nigeria House, adding “this is Nigeria House and we are very happy to do what is right here”.
The occasion was attended by the First Ladies of The Gambia, Niger, wives of governors, heads of agencies and associates of the wife of the president, among others.
Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has expressed readiness to partner with Edo indigenes in the diaspora to engender social economic growth, especially in empowering women and girls in the state.
Obaseki disclosed this when he hosted Ms. Blessing Itua, a United States of America-based Edo indigene and Gender and Development Advocate/Founder, Blessing of Africa Empowerment, who was on a courtesy visit to the governor, at the Government House, Benin City.
Governor Obaseki said the state government is ready to partner with the diaspora community, in empowering women to open up the space for women participation in efforts to transform the state into an economic hub.
Obaseki said, “the state government will take advantage of the human resources in the diaspora community to promote socio-economic growth and development, and to make life better for Edo people.”
He said the state is not only blessed with natural resources but with human resources, noting, “This administration is designing a development roadmap that will enable the state partner investors, including the indigenes of the state who are in the diaspora, in specific areas of need, especially women empowerment.”
Obaseki said, “As a state, our destiny is in our hands and we will ensure that we utilise the opportunity to create wealth and prosperity for the people. The roadmap for development being designed will enable the state partner with the diaspora community. This will enable the indigenes of the state who are based abroad to come and undertake projects. We are creating the right environment for things to work as we also plan to generate correct information and data for effective planning.”
The governor commended Ms Itua, a recipient of the President Barack Obama Award of Service, for her determination in undertaking projects that have positively impacted lives.
Ms. Blessing Itua, earlier, said she was in the state to support the laudable achievements of the governor and seek areas of collaboration with the state government on women empowerment, human trafficking, training, medical tourism and aviation.
