About Us
How and Where It All Started!
Canada Virtuous Women (CAVIWO) is a black-led organization of Christian women that have come together to empower women and their families with a focus on widows & single parents. CAVIWO began in 2016 as Ottawa Virtuous Women and quickly grew nationally and internationally causing them to change their name to Canada Virtuous Women (CAVIWO). CAVIWO is governed by Biblical principles and is a registered charity, non-governmental, not-for-profit, philanthropic and nonpartisan organization which operate in accordance with the laws of the land.
We believe that, empowering women’s minds from a holistic and socio-economic support perspective can help turn their lives around. We also realized the fact that most widows and single parents with children face enormous challenges to make ends meet. Born out of the desire to pray together, empower, strengthen, support and build women according to Biblical principles (Proverbs 31: 10-31) as our guide and to give back to widows, single parents and their families; beginning with Ottawa, then Canada and abroad or wherever God will lead us, we came together to prayerfully, emotionally and economically support every woman along their journey of life.
Our base is Canada, but we also operate in Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania. We are trusting God to move in the hearts of men to support us reach every nation of the world and help widows, single parents and their children. Why widows? Read the founder’s story.
The Woman Who Fears The Lord!
Founder/Vision Bearer (The HEADGIRL)
ADELINE IJANG
A Canadian citizen born in Cameroon in West Africa, Adeline grew up in a Christian community where many women were unemployed widows and they struggled to send their children to school. She was only 19 years old when her father died, making her mother a widow. She witnessed widows go through false accusations, trauma, homelessness and extreme poverty in her country of birth. So, she vowed that as long as she lives; widows must be empowered and every child must have an education.
One beautiful evening in 2016, she was having dinner at her friend’s house and as she sat on the dinner table with ADELINE AKWA and FABIOLA NYUFOR, one of them suggested that they should join a group in the city. She said no, unless it’s a prayer group where women can have a safe space to pray and share knowledge and help each other. They all said; let’s do it. She left from there and gather other women and by their first meeting, they had more than 10 women. The group soon started attracting women from outside the Ottawa community, across Canada, USA and across the continents.
About Us
Our mission is to holistically empower women and their children to develop sustainable skills in a changing world
To see a world where love leads, without poverty, discrimination or violence.
LOVE
TRANSPARANCY
FORGIVENESS
RESPECT
PEACE
FAITH
JUSTICE
INCLUSION
EVANGELISM
Education
Capacity Building
Poverty Reduction
Employment
Health
Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
- To advance religion by teaching the religious tenets, doctrines, and observances associated with Christian faith.
- To promote health by providing individuals with domestic abuse with access to related
- Counselling, information, or group support programs.
- To advance education by providing training programs about the prevention of, and responses to, domestic abuse to abused and traumatized widows and single parents.
- To relieve poverty by providing related entrepreneurial training to those in need in areas of social and economic deprivation in Canada and internationally.
- To relieve poverty of refugees and immigrants in Canada, who are unemployed or facing a real prospect of imminent unemployment and are shown to need assistance by providing employment-related training.
- To carry out activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above charitable purpose.
We support younger and desperate widows with children
We organize conferences, workshops & seminars
We do monthly retreats
We carry out humanitarian missions
We carry out Education programs
Come join us
Membership:
Our membership is open to Christian women of all races, but our humanitarian work is non-denominational. Membership fee $180 annually.
Are struggling emotionally or new to Canada and not sure how navigate your way through; we have been there and can assist you. Contact us.
All donations help us care for women, children and immigrants in need. Your donation ensures that when an emergency happens, our teams are there to relieve suffering and save lives.
