Project Report
| Oct 26, 2012
FINAL YEAR FOR THE 50 AND OUR FISH FARM
By Aku Christy Orduh | Executive Director/Founder
The 50 (fifty) students are on the final phase of their training with us in different skills.They would start their Industrial attachment in November 2012. More than 80% of them can produce to market standards from raw materials. We have started discussions with their parents and relations about shops/shades to rehabilitate their tools and equipments for business with their skills. We hope MTN Foundation would be positive to our appeal and come to our aid to procure the equipment and tools.
Our Agric section needs expansion but are constrained by lack of funds. Three youths are employed there now and we have a target of fifty tanks to employ between twelve-thirteen youths with hearing and speech impairment.Our boys are trained by Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research, Victoria Island, Lagos. We rear and breed Catfish and hope to include smooking when the time comes.
We remain grateful to our benefactors and promise to give value to their donations by executing this project judiciously.
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Jul 30, 2012
The Progrss of the fifty new student
By Aku Christy Orduh | Executive Director/Founder
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In September 2011 a set of 50 (fifty) new students were admitted to train in different skills till August 2013. All have shown strong passion for learning. What one can practically see coupled with reports from their teachers,Monitoring and Evaluation Officer show that some can produce standard materials that can compete favorably in the market. We expect that in the next six months most of them would be perfect while others meet market standard production.Pictures from some sections are included.
We remain grateful for the encouragement given to us through donations.We would continue this transformation and integration of people with disabilities into the main stream of the society. We have embarked on discussions with other Organizations and Companies that can attract jobs after training. Our students went on excursion to Covenant University Ogun State Nigeria to show case their products and for sight seeing and socialization to justify,"All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy".
The plan for their attachment to artisans in the Community is concluded. They will be posted to crafts men of their skill types as quickly as they start their second and final year in October/November 2012.
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Apr 30, 2012
Starter Packs for ex-students from MTN Foundation
By Orduh Aku Christy | Executive Director
MTN Foundation is ready to give starter packs on the 3rd of May 2012, to the 45 youths with disabilities to complement what the federal Ministry of Women Affairs and National Directorate of Employment (NDE) had given to help them continue their business and live lives with out begging. These packs are tools and equipment in the relevant trades they learnt in the Centre. We are grateful to them and hope that this effort will add to the support that make disability a thing of the past.
Our fifty current students will go for industrial attachment in August 2012 to learn how their individual trades are being handled by experts/artisans in the Community and how they make a living with it. This programme is also for integration purpose when the Community members would see and accept them as integral and positive part of the Commnunity. The programme lasts for two or three months. Our products meet the required standard but we need to establish steady markets for sales ,this is one of our concerns now.
The parents of the present students are more understanding and communication with Friends of the Disabled is more cordial.This is encouraging and helps us to handle some behavioural traits from the students especially those with hearing and speech impairment.The parents have asked for some skills/trades to be added which is not in theCentra and which they have seen as easy and readily rewarding .They are barbing/hairdressing and confessionaries which can be learnt in a few months .
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