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Provide Skills and Jobs to 425 Disabled in Nigeria

Summary

Help disabled youths with no basic education or job skills. They resort to begging and become victims of dangerous activities. Educate and train them in job skills for economic and social independence progress reportread updates from the field


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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Disabled youths in Nigeria turn to drugs and other socially unacceptable activities to generate income. This is due to a high level of discrimination against people with disabilities. Often they are abandoned. They need to be rescued and recovered from the streets. We provide basic education; provide skills in shoe-making, tailoring, welding and computer.

Activities

We will educate; provide job skills to young beggars for economic and social integration; continue to pursue legislation to protect their rights and create jobs to restore their dignity.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £2,675
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £20,342
Total Funding Goal: £23,017

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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The disabled will stop begging, start work, and acquire basic education and skills for healthy survival. As a result, poverty within this population will decline. They will also build self-esteem and be encouraged to fight for their rights.

Project Message

Social harmony will be a mirage if the disadvantaged people, who are the poorest of the poor faced with prejudice and discrimination, are not empowered to help themselves and their family.
- Chief Boniface Ananti Joe Orduh, Co-founder Friends of the Disabled

Who is Running This Project

Contact

aku christy Orduh , Chief (Mrs.),

Block 85, Flat 1, Phase iv,
Adeniji Adele Road
Lagos, Isale Eko, Lagos Island 101001
Nigeria
234-01-2630743
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public (nominal)

Organisation

Friends of the Disabled
Oja- Oba, Isale Eko Off Adeniji Adele Road
Lagos Island, Lagos State 101001
Nigeria
234 01 08023269577
http://www.fotd.8m.net

Learn more about Friends of the Disabled and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Nigeria and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Nigeria, read the Human Development Report on Nigeria or the Wikipedia entry for Nigeria.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 02, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 11, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Settlement of Graduated Students

By Chief Mrs. Aku Christy Orduh - Executive Director, February 02, 2012 03:55 PM

The six ex-students employed
The six ex-students employed

The equipment and tools supplied by National Directorate of Employment and Ministry of Women Affairs were given to graduants in groups to allow for Team work and security of tools. Incedentally MTN Foundation were not ready with what they intend to add to the graduants that time.

Arrangement is on the way to give them tools and equipment by MTNF to support the efforts of others and to give enough for easier work.We could not continue with the idea of Getting shop for them for at least one year due to lack of resources.Because we worked with their Parents and relatives who know what our objectives are, we asked them to procure the shops/convenient places to work in with the tools provided. We are not very comfortable with this and hope to improve on this with the settlement of the present students.

We make frantic efforts to monitor what they do and how it is serving  the purpose of training.

* Six of them are our employees now in Welding, fish farm and tailoring. 

* Sunday Ohagudo from the Eastern Zone of Nigeria got settled last month in a Primary school to teach Sign Language to  Club members of children that hear and speak in addition to sewing their school uniform because he graduated from tailoring section. Learning Sign language  is compulsory in our Centre during training because most of our students are hearing and speech impaired.We have discovered that those in tailoring section who hear and talk and can sign, have double advantageof being settled in school  with sign language and sewing school uniforms.

* Sunday Chidinma Williams graduated  maily from our Education section with minor interst in shoe making and welding. He sat for GCE in December 2011 and made a total of seven Credits including English, Maths and Biology.

He now works with St. John's Ambulance in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idiaraba Lagos State.He joined FOTD in 2006 from JSS One.

Mr. Wasiu Arioye has settled with a Turkey farm in Offa, Kwara State Nigeria.

We made a promise of involing them in trade and product exhibitions to help them sell thir products monitoring  them is very necessary.

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Sunday Chidinma W. leaves after GCE
Sunday Chidinma W. leaves after GCE

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