Nike Adeyemi (Founder) has always been naturally drawn to visiting orphanage homes and helping those in need around her. Those days at the university, she tend to know who was hungry and in need, helping them out in whatever way she can. She did not really see all she was doing then as a call, but she kept on giving and helping. However in1997 precisely, she began to be deeply touched and concerned seeing commercial sex workers on the street, especially in her neighbourhood of Oregun-Ikeja, Lagos. She had the huge desire to go after these girls; so she became their friends. She began to talk to them about a better way of life. She did this because she sensed the leading of the Holy Spirit to do so, also because she did not understand why they should waste their lives doing what they do. The more she talked to them and heard their story, the more love and compassion she had towards them. She really got into their world and since then she has never gotten out of their world. More so, she couldn’t shake off the feeling that this was somebody’s daughter wasting away; the motherly instincts in her would not just allow her walk away leaving them the way they were.   

The RWF was birthed out of the passion to help transform the lives of these girls. She had a definite vision to have a place, a home/hostel where they could live, this was because she saw that the reason a lot of them do what they do is because so many things went wrong in their families(Ps68;13). So she believed they needed a family setting where they can be loved, retained, nurtured and offered opportunity for education and progress; an opportunity to achieve their dreams. And ultimately to be integrated back in the society as positive contributors.

RWF is today a registered NGO that really depends on the wisdom of God, coupled with research to bring healing and empowerment to abused children and women. The mission simply is –healing children and women, building nations.