Nigeria, Village Care Initiatives

This is a brief report compiled by Lucky. We embark on visitation soon and will bring in a more detailed report. Thanks!

Biliri : we are currently digging wells although due to the nature of our land most have not reached water level. We are also working on improving the standard of the existing wells. We have all agreed to gather money for purchase of chemicals to purify the source of drinking water in the community, every family is registered in respect to this. The registered children are still benefiting from the exercise books and soaps provided by the committee.

G/zalla : sanitation takes place nightly by sweeping the community surroundings. Calculators and higher notebooks are being given to students in tertiary institutions. The youths behavior is rapidly improving by respecting parents, leaders and elders. problems; we need scholarship for all registered children, we need bed nets and chemicals especially as raining season approaches, parents participation in the entire program is discouraging.

Amanawa : Adult education teachers were presented with gifts to encourage them, more trees have been planted, gifts will be given to the three(3) best cleaned houses. There is a plan to bring all registered children for prayers. The economic security group is still contributing money.

Abuja : Kaba, Kagini, Bagusa, Guidna and T/wakili are all working towards organizing a re-training for all the committees in the communities.

Bwonpe : The 50 registered children have been provided with books, soaps and other learning materials to keep them keep clean and enhance their learning. The committees visited and challenged 74 individual homes and some fellowship groups mostly women and youths on the practices and the expected outcomes.

More families and groups are inviting us to sensitize as well as educate them on how to start as well as maintain the practices. Currently in Bwonpe, the homes and children look cleaner. Everyone is doing his/her best to maintain regular nutritious diet, some of the youths who are school drop-outs, drunks, smokers and thieves have indicated interest to change some of them registered to be part of the extra morals classes which shall begin as soon as schools vacate.

The committee took an extra step, buying soap and washing the clothes of some mentally challenged persons. More seedlings were acquired in preparation for the next planting season to boost economic security.

Sokoto: The number of pupils in the extra morals classes have increased to 74, some parents are finding it difficult to pay the N200 charge for each child. One of the two (2) teachers (a youth corper) will soon live,which means there will be future need to look for another. With the current move by the police authority to have schools in all barracks we hope that our effort will be boosted soon. Our needs have been for permanent structure as the used place will soon be taken over for the recruits training others include chalks, desks and other learning materials.