DOZ Show Preferred Guest
Photo Credit:
Lison Photography
Interview by Eturuvie Erebor (AKA Gabriella)
AMANDA BEDZRAH
Amanda Bedzrah is our DOZ Show Preferred Guest for this issue of DOZ Magazine. She is CEO of
Empower A Woman, an organisation that was set up for vulnerable women, women who have
been through domestic violence, and or sexual abuse. She shares with us her journey, from the
death of her only brother to a sudden reminder of being sexually abused as a child and how both
experiences shaped her and helped her to add value to women. She is empowering women one gift
at a time. She desires to give vulnerable women gifts that will make them smile, and she has done
so for over five years. Last Christmas, her organisation gave about 2600 gifts. Most were to women
in prison including babies in prison in the Mother and Baby Unit. They also organised a Christmas
party and gave gifts to 40 widows in Otor Iyede, Nigeria. Empower A Woman also sponsors
three children in Nigeria in primary school. Amanda is, in addition, an author of several books,
including, The Love That Set Me Free: Finding God in the Midst of Pain and Brokenness, 5 Habits
of Godly Resilient Women, and Overcoming the Fear of Death. All her books can be purchased on
Amazon. Be inspired by her journey.
You are CEO of Empower A
Woman, please share with us,
how and why did you get into
this line of work?
T
hank you, that’s a really
good question. Well, it was
2014; I went to a Joyce Meyers’
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conference with my older sister.
The theme was being bold and
courageous, and I went all the
way to America because, at that
point in my life, I was feeling
so overwhelmed with fear, I
wasn’t feeling at all bold and
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courageous. But I knew that God
had called me to do something,
I knew that God had a purpose
for me, but I really didn’t know
what it was. I was still on
my journey of healing, I was
working through some of the