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Educate and Empower 400 PLWD as Leaders in Nigeria.
As we prepare for our next GlobalGiving’s Little by Little in September 2023, and also looking forward to the Giving Tuesday events of 2023, we wish to express our heart- felt joy for being invited to partner with one of the financial institutions (Sterling Bank) to drive “Amira and Friends Edutainment” product, targeting our out-of-school children in the vulnerable communities. Many of these out-of-school children include our STEP’s long-term target group of potential future leaders (adolescent/young adults PLWD. The “Amira and Friend Edutainment” is the Bank’s creative approach to an innovative out-of-school learning for children in the rural communities to address the educational challenges in Nigeria. Sterling Bank plans to invest in support of a sustainable educational platform to reach the more than 20 million Nigerians out-of-school children in Nigeria.
The first pilot outing as organized by GIEVA Organization, brought together 87 out- of -school children, comminity leaders, and parents to watch animated educational program in both local and Pidgin English languages. The community and the children are looking forward to having a permanent arrangement to address the out-of-school issue.
The GIEVA organization is excited to know that a financial institution saw the value of the STEP’s PLWD long term strategic educational project and invited our organization to drive the Amira and Friends Edutainment product with the view of expanding supports for the education of the vulnerable children in Nigeria. As part of our long-term mission, GIEVA aims that in the next 10 years, “Educate and Empower 400 PLWD as Leaders in Nigeria” would have provided a threshold leadership platform for PLWD to be self-dependent.
To enhance basic structure for the sustainable support of the STEP long-term project, we have successfully formed a consortium with three other organizations – Colab, Computer Science Department of the University of Jos, and Zeus Tech to design and develop effective use of Generative AI in the education of the out of school children in Nigeria.
Our November 2023 Giving Tuesday Program is being planned to hold in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria to involve state government relevant agencies, and NGO. our newly consortium group of AI technical experts, researchers, and some interested philanthropists will also participate in the GIEVA Tuesday program of 2023.
Following the deepening interest in the STEP’s PLWD Project long-term plan we continue to refine our process to identify PLWD adolescent/young adults with academic, leadership, & artistic talents to support in their academic objectives. We are delighted to report that Ebenezer Chris Ajah, the Director of the Elizer Technical Services, Nigeria, our strategic training, and mentoring partner is attending a 5-week TechWomen professional mentorship program, September 29-October 30, 2023, Chicago, USA. The TechWomen program is an initiative of the US Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. This development will strengthen the mentorship elements of our PLWD education relevant programs and to have access to the CHOICES-STEM Academy program – a 12- 18-month STEM related programs that connect them to internships, networks of entrepreneurs, and innovators.
GlobalGiving continues to provide us with essential resources and webinar training materials to engage and garner supports globally for a worthy Cause. We look forward to a deeper relationship as we identify, mobilize, and select gifted adolescent persons with disabilities to be part of this transformative long-term journey.
Educate and Empower 400 PLWD as Leaders in Nigeria
By Daniel Newton Obaka - Project Team Leader
Educate and Empower 400 PLWD as Leaders in Nigeria.
The impacts of the GlobalGiving’s Bonus Day, Little by Little, and Giving Tuesday events of 2022 continue to be felt, and resonating with other similar organizations. The Director of Hope Academy Schools, Jos Plateau State and founder of Elizer Technical Services have requested for a holistic approach to facilitate and seek public-private-partnership to build sustainable platforms for supporting the STEP’s PLWD long-term project. It is an exciting development for the sustainability and growth of this project.
To this end, we have assigned two of our young members of the Research & Development Team to design and prepare “CHOICES STEM Academy Teacher Manual” for one of the planned CHOICES Clubs of the GIEVA Organization.
Following the successful outcome of the November 29, 2022’s Giving Tuesday Program held in Lagos, Nigeria, the November 2023 Giving Tuesday Program is being planned to hold in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria to involve state government relevant agencies, NGOs, and some interested philanthropists to participate in the GIEVA Tuesday program of 2023.
Recognizing the growing public interest in the STEP’s PLWD Project long-term plan we are encouraged to put in place a process to identify PLWD adolescent/young adults with academic, leadership, & artistic talents to support in their academic objectives. To this end, the Elizer Technical Services, Nigeria in partnership with the GIEVA Organization has initiated technology training and learning services to inspire adolescents/young adults including persons with disabilities to have access to the CHOICES-STEM Academy program – a 12- 18-month STEM related programs that connect them to internships, networks of entrepreneurs, and innovators.
The GlobalGiving Organization has ignited our understanding of how to garner support globally for aworthy Cause. We are excitedly looking forward to a deeper relationship in 2023 as we identify, mobilize, and select gifted adolescent persons with disabilities to be part of this transformative long-term project and powered by dedicated young Nigerians.
The long-term strategic journey of the STEP’s PLWD Project continues to impact policy makers, national/international organizations, and supporters across the nation.
Learning the art of effective participation in GlobalGiving’s Bonus Day, Little by Little, and Giving Tuesday events of 2022 enabled us to recognize the critical importance of being on such a global crowd funding platform.
Our November 29, 2022, Giving Tuesday Program in Lagos city, was a huge success and were able to donate 6 wheelchairs, 10 crutches, and 7 white cane to our 2nd Batch PLWD Project participants. The event of this year opened doors of opportunities to receive requests for scholarships and educational assistance from targeted population – adolescents/young adults.
In the year, 2022, we participated in designing and planning a two -day workshops in collaboration with strategic partners -Center for Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities (CAPWD) & James Osagie & Co- Audit Firm on, “NON-GOVERNMENTAL & CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZTIONS: BUILDING A CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, TRUST, AND INTEGRITY, as a way of inculcating the habit and culture of auditing for transparency and integrity in among CSOs, especially those with missions to serve the persons with disabilities. The workshop is planned to hold in the middle of 2023.
Following the growing tractions of PLWD Project, our organization have been invited to nominate one of the key Staff on STEP-PWLD Project for sponsorship to attend the 2023 Sport for Community: Sport Mentoring Program, a five-week immersive mentoring program that supports policy goal of promoting human rights and removing barriers around the world so that people with disabilities enjoy dignity and inclusion.
For the first time, the statistical reality of over 31 million persons living with disabilities in Nigeria is beginning to resonate with policy makers and beginning to change the narrative of systemic inequality and exclusion of the persons living with disabilities. We see that the 2023 provides opportunities and bright prospects for the STEP’s PLWD Project to initiate activities that would attract more sustainable supports from individual organizations and government agencies in its long-term journey.
In preparation for the journey into the future, the GIEVA Research & Development Team including key PLWD Project leaders attended a free 3-Day Training workshop: TAILORED RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. The workshop not only enabled us to appreciate existing training resources, we also learned how to negotiate with our financial institutions to become our corporate supporters to support the CAUSE.
We continue to appreciate the GlobalGiving Organization for enabling uson this platform to support this worthy Cause. We are excitedly looking forward to a deeper relationship in 2023.
Educate and Empower 400 PLWD as Leaders in Nigeria.
We never imagined that the long-term strategic journey of the STEP’s PLWD Project is going to become a transformative platform for the one 31 million persons living with disabilities in Nigeria. We are increasingly becoming excited and glad that our research to discover the critical and neglected niche in the persons living with disabilities in Nigeria is yielding the expected results through your empathic and generous supports.
In one year of being listed as one of the GlobalGiving Organization Partners to support the worthy Cause begins the journey of mobilizing, educating, and empowering 400 adolescents/young adults PLWD as leaders. The journey has:
One of the first batch participants in the PLWD Project is now our star inspiration that reminds us that, “together we can do anything to bring about social change for all, irrespective of our physical disabilities”.
We wish to inform you that immediately she became a first batch participant, she excitedly volunteered to become an advocate for the PLWD long-term project. She volunteered to mobilize, mentor, and support PLWD long-term project’s para-sport related activities as a tool to motivate PLWD adolescents/young adults.
Her active role and participation at the ECOSOC YOUTH FORUM - YOUTH 2030 Economic and Social Council Youth Forum "COVID-19 recovery: Youth taking action for a sustainable future”19-20 April 2022, has ignited the need to initiate the setting up of the Give Back Mechanism Scholarship Scheme as an equal and inclusive scholarship program for highly motivated adolescents/young adults PLWD in senior secondary schools in Nigeria going forward.
Your ever constant empathic supports of this long-term project have opened the door of opportunities to provide service to PLWD in Nigeria who are suffering for lack of leadership in a society where there is no defined policy of rehabilitation for PWD in health, education, welfare, and rights of protection. We will always remember your support as harbinger for sustainability.
We at GIEVA send our sincere gratitude and profound appreciations for ever believing in us and supporting this long-term project.
Following the growing impact of the PLWD project, we were invited to participate in the limb fitting program workshop. Here, over 50 participants among which were some of our “Educate and Empower PLWD Leaders in Nigeria’s” participants.
Our continued participation in the GlobalGiving organization’s frequent educative webinars continue to enrich our understanding on how to engage with growing empathic-spirited supporters globally. Our recent participation in July Bonus Day Fundraising program enables us to reach new generous donors.
Educate and Empower 400 PLWD as Leaders in Nigeria.
We are glad to report that the STEP’s PLWD Project is gaining acceptability and assisting to change the narrative of Persons Living with Disabilities in Nigeria. During the reporting period, project leadership continues to learn various elements that foster ability to raise awareness among local and international donors and to maintain their commitments.
The continued webinars and online training resources as provided by the GlobalGiving organization not only made us realize the importance of messaging, networking, and evidence-based communication, but it also enables us to recognize the needs for sustainable platforms to reach new donors, maintain existing supporters, and expanding collaborations and partnerships.
During the reporting period, the sum of one thousand, two hundred and forty tw0 ($1,242) US dollars donations were raised through the GlobalGiving platform for the PLWD project from one time, monthly, and recurring donors. There was local one-time donation of One hundred thousand Naira (N100000= equivalent of (U$225) from one of the GIEVA Trustees and pledged donations another one time donation of Twenty One thousand Naira (N21,000) = Equivalent of U$52.50). In addition, 60 corporate organizations sponsor letters were prepared and delivered to the corporate organizations and awaiting some positive responses.
Our partnership with GlobalGiving Organization has broadened our collaborative ability to identify sixty (60) Corporate organizations, ten (10) strategic individual advocates, and to reach out to the sixteen (16) members of GIEVA Board of Trustees/Directors in the fundraising efforts to support the 10-year project.
Further, we initiated with one of our strategic partners Omotunde Ellen Thompson, the CEO of the Center for Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities) to use part of her land to establish PLWD Community Resource and Training Center in Bwari Area Council, Abuja Nigeria. This will enable some of the first batch project participants to begin the training in the third quarter using our Transformative Education Curriculum (TEC) for skill acquisitions in communal integrated rural farming, entrepreneurship, community leadership, information technology, Team building, and give back mechanism. The Center will also enable to initiate a rehabilitation unit, provide paraplegic sport badminton activity, and provide reading room for the children in the community.
We are also glad to report that, our partnership with CAPWD has made the projects acceptable and trusted within the communities of person living with disabilities and gaining support from the public especially with the enactment of 2018 disability act of Nigeria.
We are excited to report that, Dorothy Marcus, one of our first batch beneficiaries has volunteered to be involved in mobilizing supports for paraplegic -sport specifically to start with badminton for PLWDs in Nigeria. According to Dorothy, we only need an environment “where we can catch them young”. And using her ‘badminton professional experience” before she became paralyzed through accident, wants to lead in coaching paraplegic badminton sport. We are convinced that this move has potential to impact, inspire, and empower the PLWD communities throughout the nation to engage in mobilizing of young PLWD athletes, weightlifters, and coaches.
According to Dorothy, involving in para-sport activities will enhance our ability to initiate a sustainable public-private-partnership relationship with government, federation of boxing, athletic federation of Nigeria, and the engagement of coaches with mutual benefits.
Finally, during the reporting period, the project engaged 8 young adults including one beneficiary of the PLWD Project to attend the United Nations 2022 ECOSOC Youth Forum (April 19-20) as actors and players in the implementation of some of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
The GIEVA Project Leadership continue to be excited about the growing momentum of local supports.
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