My Mother Was The Secret Weapon In My Life – Charity

 

Mrs Charity Davou Dawang is an example of a young lady who grew from grass to grace and achieved success not only on the secret weapon of her mother.

Born in the year 1979, in Numan town of Adamawa State, to retired Major Titus Wanenosom, who worked as security officer to a former head of state, Gen. (Rtd) Yakubu Gowon, Mrs. Charity Davou Dawang, is today the Managing Director/Chief Executive, Dependable Basic Concept, Abuja. She grew up in Numan, in a polygamous family where she attended both primary and secondary schools, before gaining admission into Kaduna polytechnic, for diploma and higher diploma in marketing.


She told LEADERSHIP Weekend, “It was difficult for me to finish my primary school, because at that time I had no exercise books to write on, neither did I have pencils, rather what I was doing with some of my classmates was to write on the sand, during lessons. This is the type of primary school I attended”, she said.

However, Charity is today a writer of two books: A Woman of Divine Destiny and The Power of Attitude to Success, which were published in 2012. A degree holder in Management from the Imo State University, Owerri, Mrs. Dawang is currently doing her Masters at the University of Abuja.

According to her, “My mother, Mrs Lami Kwato, who is the secret weapon in my life, believed in my education, but my father did not believe that my going to school was really important. So, I have to follow my mother to do her business of selling fish, from village to village and from market to market, with bare feet, because I could not afford slippers.

It was my mother who encouraged me to go to school. She was always telling me that I will go far in life. In fact, I am what I am today because of the courage, support and love from my mother”, she said.

As a child, Charity Dawang had wanted to be a group managing director of a very big organisation, where she would be controlling thousands of staff. She told our reporter that in the next five years she is aiming at becoming one of the biggest humanitarian on children, women and the less privileged in the country.

Married to Dr Davou Dawang, a neurosurgeon, with the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada-Abuja, with two children, Charity is in love with children and women. “I love children and women. I love children and women, because of my mother and that is why today, I am very close to my mother-in-law. I don’t like seeing children and women suffering. I will always try to help out to empower such persons”

On any regret in her life, Mrs Dawang said, “Yes, one of my regrets was that I went to a polytechnic, instead of going straight to the university in the first place. This is because after going through a polytechnic education, I have to come back to a university for a degree certificate, which to me is a waste of time.