SOWIN offers grants to widows in the amounts of $300 to $1,500, to start a small business. Businesses types vary, including tailor, market stalls, mobile phone booth sales, pure water sales, and second-hand clothes shops...
It is often the men who carry out the economic devastation to widows. For example, it is the husband's male relatives, who deny widows access to their husband's land or property...
SOWIN believes that engaging men as allies is critical to our mission to change social and cultural norms towards Nigerian widows.