Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life
Her project supports the following SDGs:
What are the SDGs?
The Sustainable Development Goals are a call for action by all countries – poor, rich and middle-income – to promote prosperity while protecting the planet. They recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.
Hope for Farmers, Women and Girls Initiative (HOFWGI)
Prof. OBASI is a member of the Science and Technical Committee of the Nigeria Institute of Food Science and Technology (NIFST), a platform she uses for her outreach on Nutrition Education. She believes that reaching out to rural women will help to improve the diets of the rural population as it is the women that plan and prepare their family menus most of which are carbohydrate dense. She also continues to educate such women on hidden hunger (micronutrients deficiencies) and in how to combat hidden hunger to bring about a positive change in the diets of rural dwellers.
Prof. OBASI believes that nutrition Education is a key strategy to improved living in rural communities as the women plan the family menu and are the primary gate keepers for family health, nutrition, and food security. Rural women make up a significant portion of the agricultural workforce and typically handle cooking and child rearing. Thus, educating them directly improves child nutrition, reduces household poverty and enhances the community's overall dietary quality. They are the primary Decision-Makers in the Household, in charge of selecting daily meals, cooking, feeding family members, and hygiene management. She also believes that since they make up a significant percentage of the agricultural work force in the rural communities, educating them allows them to better manage food crops and maximize nutritional yields from farming. She also believes that such knowledge will reduce under-nutrition, improve maternal health, strong immune systems and safer pregnancies.