Josephine Effah-Chukwuma
Nigerian social entrepreneur
Josephine Effah-Chukwuma (born 29 September 1966) is a Nigerian development specialist and advocate against domestic violence who founded Sophia's Place, the first battered women's shelter in Nigeria She is the founder and executive director of Project Alertestablished in January, 1999 which provides medical assistance to injured female victims through public fund sourcing and also provide legal services to victims.
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- Better life for rural women.
- Everything is achievable if you put your mind to it, no matter how difficult it appears at first.
- The most important thing is where your passion lies and what your motivation is.
- qualities a young person needs, is to believe in self, develop entrepreneurial skills and learn to be assertive.
- As a young person who wants to go into development work you must not be afraid of taking risk, but calculated risk not suicidal ones.
- You don’t see problems, you see challenges, because with challenges you are ready to work around it.
- when you look at things as problems it means that nothing can be done about a situation.
