Daughters of Divine Love Pro-Life Centre
Eha-Alumona, Africa
Daughters of Divine Love Pro-Life Centre Eha-Alumona is an initiative of the Daughters of Divine Love Congregation; a Female Religious Congregation founded by the late Most Rev. Dr. G. M.P Okoye CSSP, the second Bishop of Enugu Diocese of Nigeria. The primary objective in founding this centre is to share the love of Christ with all men and women especially those of them that are disadvantaged, abandoned or rejected by the society. As pro-lifers they stand against anything that would endanger the gift of life which God extended to every human being on trust.
The activities and programmes in this centre are geared towards ensuring that human life is highly valued and respected. The centre has a very big hospital with qualified doctors and nurses that render medical assistance and free counselling on such issues like abortion, HIV/AIDs, family planning, and dieting, etc… There are so many who are dying on daily basis as a result of HIV/AIDS menace. We have a team of medical staff that goes to the hinterland to spread the Gospel of Life. So many people have been saved from death through this “health awareness outreach”.
The rate of promiscuity in the society is so alarming these days. There are so many cases of newly born babies being thrown into the gutters or bushes. The centre has a provision for keeping these motherless babies and taking very good care of them. It is their belief that these children deserve the right to live. There are others whose mothers died during delivery who are also brought to the centre for proper medical attention and care. Right now there are seventy motherless babies in our care. To assist these children, a nursery /primary schools have been opened for them. The centre also has a provision for keeping and assisting those young girls with unwanted pregnancies until they give birth to their babies. Presently, there are 35 young ladies with unwanted pregnancies in the centre waiting for the delivery of their babies. It is the centre’s wish to open up a skill acquisition workshop to help these ladies acquire some skills that may help them in life. Most of these girls that get unwanted pregnancies attribute that to poverty.
There are so many to be helped and so many lives to be saved. The problem is that the Centre is financially incapacitated. The centre relies mainly on the charity and good will of the people of God. Apart from that, the Centre also engages in some domestic farming and poultry farms though on a very small scale. Nevertheless, the centre is in serious need of commuter bus for transporting inmates and for “health awareness outreach”, a generator plant, water and more especially food including baby food.