Village Care International
December 4, 2007
The following is the report for each community.
1. Tungan MagajiyaVery little is done here and there appears to be some crises with the committee members and Nuhu. Some of the committee members belong to a different political party from that of Nuhu and they allowed their differences to weave through this. They always disagree unnecessarily. Hakumi and i will be meeting next week to find how we could sort the issues out. We may at the suggession of the community come up with fresh leaders. Time will reveal this.
2. Amanawa.
This community is doing well. There is ofcouse a drop down in the initial zeal, but they are still helping a few orphans and widows numbering about 10. This help is not as comprehensive as helping in all the 20 indicators but some amount of help is rendered anyway. We have just completed the re training of this community and about 50 people turned out for the training. They both renewed their comitment to start all over. They are also helping in giving out soft loans, not cash to boost the economic security of families to take care of their own.
3. Sokoto,
Still keys into helping make families economically secure. The few families also key into helping each other by giving scholarship to their children and basically on the need to keep the homes clean.
4. Gidan Zalla.
Helping out in making sure children succeed in school by paying school fees and providing school supplies. They are helping in no less than 9 children in the community. The community is makin effort to keep their environment clean.
5. Billiri, Poshiya,
Most of the orphaned children and widows are actually being taken care of here. There is a marked reception to the need to help not just the ophans and widows here but even those in dire need. Over 20 children are registered and all these are helped in some way or other to make them responsible members of the community. The help may not be comprehensive enough but help is being giving anyway. Similarly projects such as drilling of wells are done here including helping to keep clean the already existing ones. Again, families are helped and youths encouraged to run some petty bussineses to raise the economy of the families and to keep them away from being idle. Ofcourse the community is also being kept clean by regular sanitation programs. Homes too.
6. Kagini, Kaba, Guidna, Tungan Wakili, Bagusa,
These communities can actually be said to be in the initial phase of VC development. The first training conducted last year saw only 1 or 2 of them attending in a central place. The training we had two weeks ago appears to be a fresh training for all of them. In the open space, they made a commitment to helping the orphans and the widows, cultivate fruits to boost their nutrition, sanitize their environment which is in a terrible mess, dig latrines and wells and own their schools and boost adult education which will help the parents know how to implement VC programs, they also will generate funds by themselves to boost the economic status of their homes there by empowering the weaker families. Individuals have also offered scholarships to children whose parents are not able to pay school fees or the orphans. Time will let us know how well they are doing this.
7. Kaduna and Mangu,
These are fresh communities to be trained. The training for the Mangu community comes up next week. We are still working to fix a date for the Kaduna training which we hope will come up this month
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