Mothering Sunday: Activist, Uchechi Ogbonna, Felicitates Women …Describes Them As Precious Gifts ||| NEWS CORNER

By Ikenna Orioha…

As Anglican Communion observes Mothering Sunday across the globe, a great mobilizer and youth activist, Amb. Mrs. Uchechi Ogbonna (Anyanwu Ututu), has heartily felicitated with women especially those of St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, Lagwa and Aboh Mbaise LGA women.

Ogbonna affirmed that the Mothering Sunday which is celebrated by Anglican Church on the fourth Sunday in lent was originally a Day set aside to honour and thank Virgin Mary, the Mother of Jesus Christ, for Her agony as recorded in Luke 2:35, as well as celebrate the virtue of motherhood.

She urged men to honor and love their wives, just as she reminded the children to often respect their mothers, as well as present rich gifts to them to make them more happier and joyously healthy.

Speaking to our reporter on Sunday in Owerri, Amb Uchechi Ogbonna, who is the Women Leader of Lagwa community, described good women as great gifts to the community.

Ogbonna said every vitreous woman needs to be celebrated and honored because womanhood is a virtue, adding that women play significant roles towards the development and success of the society.

Stressing that women, apart from giving forth offsprings, caring for and shaping their families, offering moral advice and contributing to the social, political, cultural and economic advancement of the community, Ogbonna reflected that women are very empathetic, godly, easy-going, meekly and productive in nature.

While identifying some challenges facing womanhood in Imo State as gender inequality, bias, discrimination, violence (battering or domestic abuse) and harassment ( rape, forced marriage), the pragmatic leader thus appealed to government, relevant bodies and financially wealthy individuals to empower the women via quality education, skills training programs (like technology, sewing, fashion and designing, agriculture or farming, trading, commerce and industry, among others, to enable them to surmount difficulties, reduce poverty and stress.

“I heartily felicitate with mothers particularly those at Lagwa community and Aboh Mbaise women at large on the 2025 Mothering Sunday Celebration. This event calls for reinvention of the principles of womanhood by women and mothers towards propagating a better society to the advantage of all persons”, Ogbonna maintained.