Top 5 Lois Auta Quotes

founder and chief executive officer of Cedar Seed Foundation

Lois Auta (born 29 April 1980) is the founder and chief executive officer at the Cedar Seed Foundation, an organization that promotes the participation of women with disabilities into human rights based development in Nigeria. She focuses on inclusive legislation for people with disabilities.

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It is time we begin to think of strategies to ensure women inclusion in all levels of governance.

We are first and foremost women before our various challenges. We are not our challenges, every woman has her own challenges some are physical while others are hidden, they are challenges all the same.

We have the right to employment, health and education and we can do excellently well if we are supported, encouraged and equipped.

We want laws that can back us in our society and also help our children.

I want to implore those with disabilities to embrace their situation and believe in themselves that there is no stopping them, if they don’t hinder themselves with negative attitudes and self-pity.