Amb. Peggy Ijeoma-Ogu Chukwuemeka is the Executive Director of Parent-Child Intervention Centre (PCIC) an NGO based in Nigeria with focus on crime and drug prevention, mitigation of Gender based violence and good governance. She is a Psychologist, a researcher, a Child Protection Specialist and has authored four parenting books. Peggy has over 10 years experience on drug abuse prevention with a focus on the family, GBV and Good Governance. In the cause of her project implementations through her organization, she has partnered with organizations like, ActionAid Nigeria, Global Affairs Canada, USAID Nigeria State2State Activity, Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC), World Federation Against Drugs, WFAD, HEDA Resource Centre, Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, Kimpact Development Initiative – KDI, Nigeria Network of NGOs among several others.
Peggy is the World Federation Against Drugs (WFAD) deputy board member representing Africa, Nigeria Lead of the African Civil Society Forum on Drugs, and the Pioneer of Parents-for-Parents Network (P4PN) in Nigeria. This is a network of trained parents who volunteer to sensitize other parents in their communities and sphere of influence about the dangers of drug abuse and domestic violence. The outcome from the P4P network has been tremendous in the area of drug and substance abuse prevention among young people with a good record of mitigated domestic violence rate.
She is the Convener of the first ever National parents Summit and family support Award in Nigeria with the presence of the representatives from the National Orientation Agency, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, The Ministry of Education, and The Ministry for Gender and Social Development as well as parents, teachers, school owners, youth leaders, traditional rulers, religious leaders and Civil Society Organizations.
As a result of her tremendous work in family interventions she was awarded a Global Family Ambassador (GFA) by the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in 2019.
Peggy has presented her work in different global platforms like the 62nd and 64th CND Ministerial Round-Table Segments in Vienna Austria 2019, 2021 and 2023, as well as High Level Sections of the African Union Commission Zambia 2023 etc.
Peggy Ijeoma-Ogu Chukwuemeka is currently Consulting with CARING-HANDS TRAINING AND PLACEMENT SERVICES which is a ChildCare Providers and Caregivers Training and Placement Service centre based in Nigeria.
