At Taraja Trust we understand the challenges faced by widows which include but are not limited to;
• Stigma:- ones widowed your status changes and you acquire a new title.
• Alienation – When the spouse was alive, both family members and families rallies around you… sadly many will relate to you much less after. Many identify widows with problems, issues and choose to keep their distance.
• Exclusion – Where you were included or even invited for functions, you are no longer, and for fear that you might interfere with other people’s homes.
• Disinheritance: More widows than widowers have lost their inheritance to relatives and business partners after the demise of a spouse.
• Blame: blamed for what one “did or did not do to cause death,, even when the cause of death is unclear.
• Lack – Husband being the main bread winner and at his demise the family income is reduced or brought to a complete halt.
• Infightings: with family, business partners purely due to property ownership
• Scrutiny: Sometimes it is like everybody should know what you do and whom you socialize with. It is like you have become answerable to everybody altogether.
• Guilt/blame: feeling guilty and blaming themselves for many things including their perceived failures and failures of others i.e children.
• Loneliness: Depending on the stage of grief and other underlying circumstances, a single woman may experience a lot of loneliness.

At Taraja, you get to experience and enjoy;
Group support – Counseling, Legal aid, group income generating projects, group activities for widows to get out & catch a breather, mingle, to purpose to live again, heal and hopefully grow and thrive.
Share - The stories we share which show us how different we are in our grieving. Each of us experiences loss uniquely; no two hearts ache the same way. We face distinctive challenges in our own corners of the worlds we inhabit and no one will respond to the loss and challenge for us. We alone can change our lives and our selves.

Membership is open to all widows from any age upto 60 years. Anyone above 60 years is welcome as a patron and or mentor.