Twins Alive Foundation host Twins from different parts of Nigeria for Mary Slessor Centenary Celebration (1915-2015)
The Event was held at her late residence, Use Ikot Oku, Ibiono, Akwa Ibom State, the very place where she died.
a commemorative statue was unveiled in her honour at her last residence.
Activities at the event below:
Event Highlights for Wednesday 14th January, 2015 at Use Ikot Oku, Ibiono, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. Time: 10am
* Unveiling a commemorative statue in her honour at her last residence.
* Non-Denominational service at her hilltop. (Special prayers for multiple births, Born / Unborn & Others)
* Special Twins anthem / Songs for Mary Slessor
* Candle light procession in honour of Mary Slessor and other Twins / Multiple births that are in paradise.
* Special group photograph
* Documentary / Commentary of Mary Slessor (Twins Alive)
* Documentary of Nigerian Twins / Multiple births
* Live musical show {Special Twins}
> Hanny House Entertainment
* Love in Sharing
* Visitation to orphanage homes
Twins Alive Foundation also Joined the Calabar Twins Foundation in Cross River State @ a village called Akpap Okoyong where all the Twins were hosted in the Mary Slessor Centenary Memerial Celebration. The itenary for the event includes Carnival float, Twins Banquet, Documentary, short play on the killing of Twins.
BRIEF HISTORY
Mary Slessor, Scottish missionary in eastern Nigeria, was born in 1848 in Aberdeen. Her father, a shoemaker, was an alcoholic and her mother a deeply religious woman. The family moved to Dundee in 1858 where Slessor began working in the linen mills at the age of eleven. She joined the local Christian youth club and became convinced of a call to be a missionary.
In 1876 the United Presbyterian Church agreed to send her to Calabar as a mission teacher. She worked first in the missions in Old Town and Creek Town but in 1888 went alone to work among the Okoyong. For the rest of her life Slessor lived a simple life in a traditional house with Africans, concentrating on pioneering. Her insistence on lone stations often led her into conflict with the authorities and gained her a reputation as somewhat eccentric, but she was heralded in Britain as the 'white queen of Okoyong'. She was not primarily an evangelist but concentrated on settling disputes, encouraging trade, establishing social changes and introducing Western education.
Slessor frequently campaigned against injustices against women, took in outcasts and adopted unwanted children. In 1892 she was made vice-consul in Okoyong, presiding over the native court and in 1905 was named vice-president of Ikot Obong native court. In 1913 she was awarded the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Slessor suffered failing health in her later years but remained in Africa where she died in 1915.
Mary Slessor lived for a long time among the efik people in Calabar in present day Nigeria. There she successfully fought against the killing of twins at infancy.
Witchcraft and superstition were prevalent in Nigeria when she arrived there because traditional society had been torn apart by the slave trade. Human sacrifice routinely followed the death of a village dignitary, and the ritual murder of twins was viewed by the new missionary with particular abhorrence. Her dedicated efforts to forestall this irrational superstition were to prove a resounding success, as photographs of Mary with her beloved children testify.
She died there in Calabar in 1915 and was given a state burial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Slessor