Martha, a native of Gwara, Khana LGA in the state, was 19 years old when protests were held across Ogoniland requesting oil companies operating in the region to pay billions of dollars for damages and also protect the Ogoni environment from further degradation.
Mangrove restoration was not part of the mandates of Martha’s NGO when it began. “The stories of the sufferings of my people kept coming to my ears and I kept asking myself what I could do to alleviate these challenges that women are having,” she said. But subsequently, the hard work started to pay off when Shell decided to begin cleaning up some communities and needed mangroves to replant. Martha saw this as an opportunity to begin training women in mangrove nurseries so that they could eke out a living from selling the propagules.“We took these women and we trained them. We made them know about the different mangroves and the one that is indigenous to that habitat,” she told TheCable.
Martha told TheCable that she is excited about the results the project has garnered so far, while she comfortably bragged that “our women are now smiling to the bank”. As the popular saying goes, nothing good comes easy. This, for Martha, means she also experiences challenges while doing her work.
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