Nominating Celine for a World Pulse Spirit Award

Celine has been part of World Pulse since 2009. By that time she had been an activist for years, speaking out in ways that had never been heard. She has inspired me and educated me for years now, and it was a thrill to find her recent story https://www.worldpulse.com/community/users/celine/posts/102282 and to be not only further educated and kept up to date, but also to be able to say hello again. Such is the beauty and power of World Pulse, how we learn from each other, are inspired by each other and form the lasting connections with each other.

From 2018: https://www.worldpulse.com/community/users/celine/posts/88780

“Empowered women like me speak out on issues that hinder my accessibility to food, education and other needs. I vocally use my voice advocating for improvement of lives for others in my communities. At the course of the pilgrimage I extensively spoke before the Heads of Churches, the Traditional leaders, the government officials and other stakeholders advocating for improved lifes for displaced women, children as well as for women living with disabilities in Nigeria in the areas of job, scholarship and other educational supports as well as skills workshops to build economic capacity of the women

Concerns of security and peace for women are top priority of my professional charity works. For a long time my advocacy and program work activities had been on food security, peacebuilding, trauma healing, inclusive participation / empowerment of women with disabilities and democratization for development. On daily basis I make efforts, contributing resiliency, resisting layers of issues of corruption, poverty and insecurity”.

It is a gift to be in touch, learning from and inspired by Celine, and in that spirit I am sending in this nomination for a World Pulse Spirit award.