Lady Florence Ojiobianu (Nee Nwozuzu), the Founder of Mother Theresa Wellness and Development Organization, is an Alumni of the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Centre for Museum Studies Jos, and Evangel High School Old Umuahia.
She is a Museum Professional, a Historian, an Educator, a Practical physiotherapist, and an international healthcare administrator, with about ten diplomas in the field of health.
Florence Ojiobianu is a senior citizen of Nigeria who served the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the umbrella of the National Museum of Colonial History, Aba, Abia State, initially as a museum guide and later as an Education Officer.
Between 1998 and 2000, She worked with the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, under BASICS, Basic Support for Institutionalising Child Survival; a program that took place in Aba, Abia State, Nigeria.
She volunteered and served in various capacities, as an assistant secretary, the interim women leader, and also as the president of John Okorie health facility (aka DIAD group).
Florence is also the founder and coordinator of Mobile Educational Cultural Services (MECS Aba, Abia State, Nigeria).This program, which featured cultural exhibitions and folklore entertainment, had objectives of creating cultural awareness and preserving Igbo cultural heritage in order to prevent it from going into extinction. The program, as an outreach program, took her to many primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions. She and her team equally took her project to the palaces of some Kings in Abia State, and also to Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Aba, and some schools in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The project lived through to its billing by inculcating the Igbo moral values in our children, teaching them cultural norms and morals so as to create a better society. This program, like that of USAID, was a non-profit one.
As a distributor of the forever living products company, some of Florence’s personal products were donated for charity to some sick people who could not afford to buy them.
In 2004, Florence and her husband underwent practical physiotherapy training under an American-based Chinese company, Baye, in their Nigeria and Aba outreach training centers.
After the training, they were able to buy some electronic physiotherapy massagers from the company. Armed with the aforementioned equipment, they converted their living room and their balcony into health facilities where they treated, especially the geriatrics, free of charge.
Giving and helping people is not synonymous with having, as Florence always say. Florence and her husband who is equally a senior citizen of Nigeria, having served and retired as a Senior Manager in the defunct Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL), have been helping many people take care of the basic necessities of life. They also support education, healthcare, and other social needs of people around them.
Florence, in her words, stated that the credit to whatever she and her family is giving should go to God, the giver of wealth and all good things and also her parents. According to her, she inherited the trait and the act of giving from her parents. Her mother, who was a peasant farmer, was a renowned giver. It was due to her generosity that she was nicknamed “Oburu Onye uwa nne ya”, which means the bearer of people’s burden. Her Mum even nicknamed her dad “Ome ka ozo di”, which means the one who gives as if he has some reserves. This is due to the fact that her dad could give the last he had to help those in need.
Lady Florence is happily married for over forty years, and her marriage is blessed with four grown children.
Mother Theresa Wellness and Development Organisation has much to do at Aba, Abia State, which can be extended to other cities and States in Nigeria, Africa and the world over. The programs and projects include:
1. Opening of the Mother Theresa Vocational Training Centre, already registered and approved by the Federal Government.
2. The establishment of Mother Theresa Hospital.
3. Opening of Mother Theresa’s kitchen.
4. The opening of the mother Theresa general merchandise shop – already registered and approved by the Federal Government of Nigeria, via the public affairs commission.
5. The opening of Mother Theresa Television.
As years go by, more programmes might be introduced.
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