About Us
Women Issues Communication Services Agency
...empowering women to succeed
...empowering women to succeed
Women Issues Communication Services Agency (WICSA), is a 501 (c) (3) organization set up to
provide financial, technical and advisory services to female small business owners irrespective of race or
creed, in order to transform lives. Our guiding philosophy is to "Honor God, and serve others".
Vision
To assist low income women gain self sufficiency through our diverse programs to transform their lives.
Mission
Our mission is to bridge the gap between advocates of women's issues and their target audience using
various programs and projects.
provide financial, technical and advisory services to female small business owners irrespective of race or
creed, in order to transform lives. Our guiding philosophy is to "Honor God, and serve others".
Vision
To assist low income women gain self sufficiency through our diverse programs to transform their lives.
Mission
Our mission is to bridge the gap between advocates of women's issues and their target audience using
various programs and projects.
Our Journey so far...
WICSA has been actively involved in women's issues advocacy for more than a decade. We started our
first project by using the Arts – a travel museum of paintings and sculptures - to create awareness of the
evils of female circumcision in Nigeria and on a global level. (Click here for catalog for more details
about the exhibition) and used the exhibits as a platform for advocating changes to women’s lives,
starting in Nigeria, Africa.
It launched its first global campaign in 1998 using a travel museum of paintings, sculptures and etchings
to campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) with positive results. These exhibits of more than
50 works were shown in Nigeria, European cities and parliaments are currently showing at different Ivy
League universities, such as Harvard, Brandeis, Cornell universities to mention but a few..
The outcome of the exhibition that created so much awareness of the ills of FGM is that state
governments in Nigeria, EU, and British Parliaments all reviewed the laws pertaining to FGM in their
different countries from the year 2000 AD to give women and victims of FGM some relief, protection
and the upholding of the human dignity.
The exhibits were strategically designed to be the first level campaign of a larger more global campaign
to eradicate poverty and disease. WICSA believes that an economically empowered woman is in a better
position to decide what happens to her body, and her family.
The result of the FGM crusade, we learnt, is that women are better able to say NO to FGM if they have
the financial power to support themselves when they are kicked out of their matrimonial homes for not
accepting their bodies or their daughters to be mutilated.
Although some states governments in Nigeria have abolished the practice, criminalizing the action is far -
fetched because the country is so culturally inclined that the law agents would rather spend their time on
“real criminals” than intervene in the domestic disputes within their communities.
WICSA has been actively involved in women's issues advocacy for more than a decade. We started our
first project by using the Arts – a travel museum of paintings and sculptures - to create awareness of the
evils of female circumcision in Nigeria and on a global level. (Click here for catalog for more details
about the exhibition) and used the exhibits as a platform for advocating changes to women’s lives,
starting in Nigeria, Africa.
It launched its first global campaign in 1998 using a travel museum of paintings, sculptures and etchings
to campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) with positive results. These exhibits of more than
50 works were shown in Nigeria, European cities and parliaments are currently showing at different Ivy
League universities, such as Harvard, Brandeis, Cornell universities to mention but a few..
The outcome of the exhibition that created so much awareness of the ills of FGM is that state
governments in Nigeria, EU, and British Parliaments all reviewed the laws pertaining to FGM in their
different countries from the year 2000 AD to give women and victims of FGM some relief, protection
and the upholding of the human dignity.
The exhibits were strategically designed to be the first level campaign of a larger more global campaign
to eradicate poverty and disease. WICSA believes that an economically empowered woman is in a better
position to decide what happens to her body, and her family.
The result of the FGM crusade, we learnt, is that women are better able to say NO to FGM if they have
the financial power to support themselves when they are kicked out of their matrimonial homes for not
accepting their bodies or their daughters to be mutilated.
Although some states governments in Nigeria have abolished the practice, criminalizing the action is far -
fetched because the country is so culturally inclined that the law agents would rather spend their time on
“real criminals” than intervene in the domestic disputes within their communities.
On going projects
International Travel museum of paintings and sculpture
An intriguing travel Museum of Paintings and Sculptures advocating an end to all forms of Female
Genital Mutilation- FGM, or Female Circumcision. To see the art exhibits, please click here.
Small business ownership training workshop
Business Development training class for women entrepreneurs aspiring to own or maintain a small
business. For more information, please click here.
WICSA is committed to improving the quality of life and economic welfare of low income women
globally to achieve self sufficiency. The main aim of forming WICSA here in the United States is to
strengthen capacity building for international networking to broaden the range of specialists, clients and
countries of cooperation or collaboration. It will focus among other things, in getting an excellent
network of associated experts in the fields of financial and non financial areas to achieve women’s
economic empowerment to eliminate poverty.
International Travel museum of paintings and sculpture
An intriguing travel Museum of Paintings and Sculptures advocating an end to all forms of Female
Genital Mutilation- FGM, or Female Circumcision. To see the art exhibits, please click here.
Small business ownership training workshop
Business Development training class for women entrepreneurs aspiring to own or maintain a small
business. For more information, please click here.
WICSA is committed to improving the quality of life and economic welfare of low income women
globally to achieve self sufficiency. The main aim of forming WICSA here in the United States is to
strengthen capacity building for international networking to broaden the range of specialists, clients and
countries of cooperation or collaboration. It will focus among other things, in getting an excellent
network of associated experts in the fields of financial and non financial areas to achieve women’s
economic empowerment to eliminate poverty.
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Infibulation
Stone by
Alloysius
Osagie
Infibulation
Stone by
Alloysius
Osagie
| To see the Art Exhibits catalogue, please click here |
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