AnneGift Foundation

AnneGift Foundation is an inspiration of God borne out of the personal experience of the Founder Aderonke Adelowo. The objective of the Foundation is to help address the problem of poverty and youth unemployment rampant among people of African origin. To do this, the Foundation is approaching empowerment from two broad angles. Youth Engagement and job creation as well as Counselling and resettlement of Nigeria Migrants back in their native communities through social-economic. empowerment. Why young People and Deported Migrant? From The FounderI have always been of the opinion that young people have the skills and energy to make a real difference to our world, and we must do all we can to har... read more AnneGift Foundation is an inspiration of God borne out of the personal experience of the Founder Aderonke Adelowo. The objective of the Foundation is to help address the problem of poverty and youth unemployment rampant among people of African origin. To do this, the Foundation is approaching empowerment from two broad angles. Youth Engagement and job creation as well as Counselling and resettlement of Nigeria Migrants back in their native communities through social-economic. empowerment. Why young People and Deported Migrant? From The FounderI have always been of the opinion that young people have the skills and energy to make a real difference to our world, and we must do all we can to harness their talents by helping them search for the hero in themselves. Helping young people to start their own business will have a direct Impact on youth unemployment, especially in developing African countries because, not only will young people be empowered to be self employed, they will also be able to become employers themselves, creating jobs through their entrepreneurship skills. However it's not easy for a young person to start his/her own business given the needed Skills and Facilities. Access to finance is the most obvious challenge, along with questions such as; what training might a young person need? Where would they go to make useful contacts that could help them grow their business? And who could guide them and provide advice at critical times? Therefore my interest and that of my team at AnneGift Foundation is engaging young people towards self actualization. I have been a migrant for a greater part of my adult life and as such, I have witnessed and experienced first-hand, all the challenges, hopes and aspirations connected to living in a foreign country as a migrant. More so, having lived this way, I am able to understand to a great extent , the huge amount of human resources and skills that go to waste as a result of inadequate and inhuman handling of the challenges of immigration on both the host community and the migrants especially the "undocumented Immigrants". Many individuals are deported with only what they are wearing at the time of their arrest with no further arrangements made to ensure their possession are delivered to them. Some immigrants volunteer to return to their home land as a result of their frustrations with long time detention without the immigration service taking into consideration the effect their treatment have on people. A number of such people return to their home countries to become burdens on the system, many of them slip into frustration and suffer depression from which they never recover; many also committed suicides. It is my believe many of such incidents could have been avoided where there is proper provisions for such individual to get needed advice and assistance to rebuild their lives. More so with the new immigration legislation bill in a country such as the UK, deportation figures are expected to rise and rise! It is in line with these fact and personal insight that I had my "callings" on AnneGift Foundation, and have been able to come together with people of like minds to address these challenges through two main projects; Our projects Youth Engagement and Job Creation - with this project, at AnneGift Foundation, we hope to contribute to world peace and development by positively engaging young people. We hope to work with them through mobilization programmes and projects that will help them achieve their potentials, particularly in entrepreneurship and agriculture. We are committed to identifying and working with individuals, governments and other stakeholders and people of like minds towards harnessing the potentials in our community for youth empowerment. Counselling and Resettlement of Migrants in their Native Communities - Given recent development around the globe and the challenges associated with immigration, both to the host communities and the migrants, AnneGift Foundation is committed to helping individual migrants, who have decided to return to their original communities. (we are presently focused on Nigeria) the Foundation will assist such people in first harnessing benefits and opportunities for assistance towards their journey back home, while we also provide them with support during their arrival and settlement in their home communities.