Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation
WOTCLEF (Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation) "is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), which was initiated and founded by Her Excellency, Chief (Mrs.) Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar, wife of the Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999. It is committed to building an international coalition that restores human dignity through empowerment, education and advocacy. WOTCLEF is a humanitarian organization, dedicated to the eradication of trafficking in persons, child labour and violent abuses of the rights of women and society, WOTCLEF's areas of focus are: Trafficking, Child Labour, Abuse of the Rights of Women and Children and HIV/AIDS." [1]
Board
Accessed February 2010: [2]
Board & Staff of WOTCLEF, Nigeria (Headquarters)
- Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar (Chairperson)
- Peter Okocha
- Joseph Ehindero
- Judith Attah
- Otumba Isiaka Adeleke
- Joy Udensi
- Ndi Oyuike Okereke
- Stella O. Dorgu
- Delita Whitefield
- Veronica K. Umaru (Secretary)
Board & Staff of WOTCLEF, USA
- Amina Titi Atiku Abubakar (Chair)(WOTCLEF, Nigeria/WOTCLEF, USA)
- Barbara Nowak (Vice President)
- Tony Nzeribe (CEO WOTCLEF
- Maria Uzo Okeke
- Peter Eloka Okocha (Treasurer) (WOTCLEF, Nigeria/ WOTCLEF, USA)
- Sharon Renee Ames-Dennard, Ph. D.
- Hajia Jamilah (Jacqueline W.) Farris
- Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke (Key Board Member and Contributor to WOTCLEF, Nigeria)
- Howard F. Jeter
- Christine Warnke
- Henry Lewis III
- Jeannine B. Scott
- Mary Nzeribe (Chief Operations Officer for WOTCLEF, U.S.A. INC.)
- Barbara A. Greadington