Umuabali Citizens Empowerment Forum

The idea of having a community-led charity effort to assist widows in Umuabali was initiated at a meeting of the Umuabali Family Union, Lagos in 2004. This effort was to be known as the Widows Support Welfare Program. A committee, headed, initially by Prof Louis Nwoku and later by Chief Kamdi Ehighibe, both very distinguished Umuabali citizens now late, to implement the program. The program became one that the widows expected every year with much interest.

UCEF was registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2018 as a non-profit organization. 

In addition to the above, UCEF provides the platform to raise funds to execute certain urgent critical projects in the Umuabali Community.

The Umuabali Citizens Empowerment Forum is funded through donations from Umuabali sons and daughters (home and abroad) and their friends. Grants and fundraising activities are additional sources.

UCEF has an office in Umuabali Civic Centre and its annual programs are held at the Centre.