After nearly a decade of advocacy, storytelling, and quiet impact, Founder of Olamma Cares Foundation, Chioma Nwosu-Fakorede, has returned with a movement that redefines what healing looks like for African women.
To mark the Foundation’s 10th anniversary on the October 25, 2025, Chioma unveiled a new initiative: Umè Healing Circle, a safe space designed to help women rest, release, and reconnect emotionally, spiritually, and communally.
Held at blackNILE in Ibadan Oyo State, the debut edition gathered women for an afternoon of reflection, sisterhood, and emotional release. The event featured guided journaling, therapeutic sharing, and symbolic rituals including a collective balloon release where women wrote what they were ready to let go of, and set it free.
“Many women are silently carrying pain,
” Chioma shared. “Uma was born from my own journey from bipolar diagnosis to rediscovering peace. I wanted to create a space where women can exhale without judgment, where healing feels like home.”
The Umè Healing Circle is rooted in two simple but profound ideas: healing through community and healing through kindness. Women were invited to share personal reflections using emotion cue cards, participate in a “Stand If” vulnerability exercise, and exchange thoughtful gifts as a symbol of mutual care and compassion.
The event ended in what attendees described as “a mix of tears, laughter, and joy” affirmations, gratitude, and music closing the day on a note of celebration and calm.
Beyond emotional wellness, Chioma introduced “Healing Through Kindness”, a new community and climate give-back initiative under Olamma Cares.
The programme will connect emotional healing with environmental restoration and social impact ensuring each Umè circle gives back to its host community. Ten women signed up as volunteers
for the Ibadan chapter.
This milestone also comes after Olamma Cares’ successful annual fundraiser to support mental health access for women across Nigeria.
Chioma says the foundation plans to expand Umè Healing Circles to Enugu, Lagos, Abuja, and other African cities in 2026 creating what she calls “a continent-wide sisterhood of healing.”
“When women heal, communities thrive,
” she said. “That’s what Umè is really about, breathing again, together.”
Since 2015, Olamma Cares Foundation has championed mental health advocacy, therapy access, and emotional healing through storytelling, community events, and public awareness
campaigns.
