Educate and Empower 400 PLWD Leaders in Nigeria

Educate and Empower 400 PLWD as Leaders in Nigeria.

On May 22, 2024, the GIEVA Organization consortium held its End-Conference to feature the Generative AI Skill Challenge Project: Enhancing youth, persons living with disabilities, and marginalized women-led businesses in Nigeria through sales, AI capacities, and infrastructure. Two people living with disabilities (PLWD) leaders were sponsored and participatedin the End- Conference programthat featured the impactful results of the project on the traditional marginalized population. The challenge project focused on bringing the marginalized population into the use of the generative AI capabilities to create sustainable digital livelihood.

The two PLWD participants included one of the STEP’s long-term strategic projects: Educate and Empower 400 PLWD as Leaders in Nigeria. As GIEVA’s strategic partner in the PLWD educational project, she spoke passionately about the continued neglect of the PLWDs in every socio -economic and educational sectors of the Nigerian society. She appealed to the conference organizer and the government representatives at the conference to ensure policies that consider the rights of the PLWDs as they relate to mobility, health, and equal education among others.

One of the project beneficiaries who is now an active advocate for the PLWD educational projects, spoke and advocated for back-yard poultry farming to feed the nation. Currently, with a chrome laptop donated to her recently, she is now set to gain further knowledge in generative artificial intelligence on how to grow this unique back-yard poultry farming and turning it into a movement for the benefit of the nation by calling other PLWDs to join.

We continue to witness growing impactful developments in the PLWD Projects.

As a motto, Dorothy said, “disability is not the absence of creativity, innovation, and human inherent resilience” She is resolved to demonstrate that persons living with disability anywhere are also contributing members of nation building.  Working closely with CHOICES Club and its Technovation Girls, Dorothy is set to work with them to design and create platforms for small scale integrated rural farming to fight poverty and the impending hunger in Nigeria.

The various GlobalGiving training resources continue to be critical to developing the fundamental frameworks and skills to engage authentic community support base.

As always, we at GIEVA wish to profoundly appreciate our supporters- the GlobalGiving Organization, Consortium group, advocates, the GIEVA Board of Trustees, Directors for ever ready to provide their advice. The Technovation Girls of the GIEVA CHOICES Club, for preparing, and building tools capable of supporting the STEP’s long-term CAUSE.

We want to boldly restate again that together we have planted, and it has germinated. We shall continue to manure and water it until it becomes a huge tree with shades for the marginalized and the vulnerable to perch and become part of a larger community with inclusive rights and benefits of diversity, equality, and accessibility to community resources for the common good.