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PROGRAMS
PROGRAMS
Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Jobs & Volunteer Projects:
IIMGC is partnering in coalition with a range of cooporate organizations, Universities, Government agencies,Secondary schools, Primary schools,Tetiary institutions, Family, Communities, International Agricultural Communities, International Engineering Communities and NGOS, our program offers comprehensive personal and professional development.
We offer exchange of volunteer between NGO’s:
We help participants to apply for volunteer work for a non-governmental organization (NGO's), Government owned Universities, Cooperate Firms, Family, Farm Communitiy Jobs etc.
Our International-exchange Working Abroad cooperates with carefully vetted organizations to ensure that all volunteer placements address the current needs of local populations. While you will see a range of projects described on our website, it is important to keep in mind that your participation in a project depends on the local community's / Organization needs at any given time. For this reason, we recommend that you speak with us regarding your goals, strengths and planned travel dates before submitting your application.
Our direct support to society is therefore one of the key priorities of the IIMGC objectives. IIMGC plays a major role in promoting active citizenship, participatory democracy and building cohesive societies, targeting the needs of and empowering specific groups who are most at risk of inequalities, exclusion and discrimination. IIMGC also engage in advocacy and policy formulation, as well as raising awareness of key issues and challenges in today's societies.
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES
Strengthening society is an important priority for IIMGC. The overall objective of the NGO Programmes is to strengthen civil society development and to enhance the contribution to social justice and sustainable development.
BENEFICIARIES
Our NGO Projects supports and help to eliminate the most in need critical problems in the society. Examples are participating in HIV/Aids stigmatization, prevention, Care, Education, Agriculture and general development. .
We support , train and empower men, women , children and youths in diffrent fields to ensure a balanced wellbeing, economic participation, peace and progress
APPRENTICESHIP
IIMGC with its partners will provide free training to people who can demonstrate financial need, to pursue a trade of their choice that can include but is not limited to: auto mechanic, hair dressing, tailoring, fashion design and beauty, computer literacy, English course, film and acting training, music, farming, catering, Petty trading, nanny, baby sitting, housekeeping, football, chauffer and electrician etc. The goal of this program is to provide an opportunity for the unskilled or under-skilled and unemployed to learn a skill that will lead to financial self-sufficiency. Although this program meant for all, we carry out an eligibility test.
CURRENT PROGRAMS:
Our commitment to social, economic and sustainable development further lay more emphasis on the need to strenghten our relationships with governments and participatory policy enhancement to ensure greater development, adaptability and sustainability. This is achieved through grassroot mobilisation, sensitisation, knowledge impactment, empowermen, advocasy and crime prevention strategies. Educating the youth against crime, drugs and recognising the needs to avoid it thereby neutralising restiveness hence enhancing security and peaceful co-existence.
PROGRAMS: On going programs 2016
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Teachers special Training for children with disability and learning difficultties (Dyslexia)
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Volunteer Training
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Entreprenurial Training
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Women Empowerment Scheme (Skill Aquisition)
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NGO Transparency Training
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NGO Management Training
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Health Care Advocacy Campaign
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HIV/AIDS Prevention Campaign
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Community Health and Sustainable Development Scheme
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Coporative Society for Agriculture and food Security
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HIV/AIDS Awareness, Prevention and Stigma training
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Health Care Training
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SWOT Analysis Training
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United Sustainable Education for Children living with dissabilities
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Partnership with Government Agencies & Ministries for economic empowerment for underserved communities
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Environmental and climate Change Campaign
Coming soon: Seminars,Symposia and Interatives with CBOs, NGOs, Government Ministries, Directorates, Angencies (MDAs) , High Commissions, Consulates, Private Sectors. Awareness and Campaign Againt Child Abuse,Girl-Child Marriage, Heritage, Ethics&Values Training Orphans, OVC, Women Right Training/Campaign, Maternal heal, HIV/AIDS Campaign and
AU PAIR Training
SENDING HOPES, ACHIEVING DREAMS AND BUILDING BETTER LIFE FOR GLOBAL PEACE, UNITY AND DEVELOPMENT
Invest Right, Support Education for children Living With DisabilitIies
POVERTY
Nigeria’s education system is also in a state of neglect largely due to decaying institutional infrastructure. Poverty is characteristically associated with a wide range of problems.
DISABILITY
Children with disabilities are denied access to basic services including education and health care. Once disabled, they are more likely to be denied basic resources that would mitigate or prevent deepening poverty. Poverty and disability reinforce each other, contributing to increased vulnerability and exclusion. While all children have an equal right to live in a family environment, many children with disabilities continue to spend much or all of their lives in institutions, nursing homes, group homes or other residential institutions. Children with disabilities are disproportionately vulnerable to violence, exploitation and abuse. IIMGC’s has launched a new Initiative to curb deficit in poor remote communities. Parents and Stakeholders will be encouraged to involve and participate in this agenda for Community Development for Child’s Right to Education, Inclusion & Poverty Alleviation. This revolves around a self-sustaining effort through group participatory commitment of all parents and stakeholders who will share the benefits development and participate in decision-making.
This program, in collaboration with grassroots NGOs and community stakeholders will develop, test and refine a clearly articulated process for identifying and developing capacity building, assessing their strengths, knowledge and resources, and subsequently developing a partnership intervention that effectively integrates financial or non-financial services into existing programs, which is, micro-credits which will be developed and structured using the experiences and lessons learned from endorsed previous projects. It is with this project IIMGC wish to empower the disabled children who have no access to education and food. It is our dream to make sure no child is left out parents and stakeholders will be encouraged to involve and participate in this agenda for Community Development for Child’s Right to Education, Inclusion & Poverty Alleviation . This revolves around a self-sustaining effort through group participation.
Parents and Stakeholders will be encouraged to involve and participate in this agenda for Community Development for Child’s Right to Education, Inclusion & Poverty Alleviation . Thus, when the micro credit loans are disbursed to target individuals, through nominated CBOs, a compulsory educational contribution and self-savings, aside the instalment repayments, at appropriate rates over a reasonable period will be collected from the proceeds of the empowered group and invested right into the educational fund setup for the disabled children
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
1. Education fund for the disabled children
2. Sponsorship program for: Orphanage homes/Schools/WASH/Facilities
3. Vocational/ Skill training for the disabled children
Micro-credit for Women Small-Scale Farmer & Petty-traders (MCWSSFPT)
Victoria Ifeoma Okoro, October 2015
Our Milestones, Measures of Success and Long-Term Funding Plan, if any:
Progress will be measured based on target community's achievement of better economic status. The target population will have a positive growth oriented economic status. While giving micro loans to beneficiaries, we will capture basic information like their income status, poverty status and assets available with them.
Activities:
Agriculture:
The vast majority of rural poor are landless labourers or marginal farmers who survive through subsistence agriculture/petty trade. Majority of small-scale local Nigeria farmers depends on seasonal farming to survive on rain-fed/ seasonal agriculture. They usually have only about 200 days of work per year, depending on the rainfall. Thus irrigational farming is an unlikely option since they lack financial strength. Which is why IIMGC is planning on introducing the most needed facilities and technical knowhow for the underserved populations in various communities over a period of time.
Farming/Livestock rearing:
Activities with the farming households under our program. These farmers are engaged in sustainable livelihood such as milk production (cows), goat & sheep rearing, poultry activities, vegetable farming, crop farming and fish farming.
Purchase/collection & selling:
In local communities they collect and sell minor fruits, leaves, dry-wood, waste collection- plastic, paper, metal, glass. They engage in recycling, dung, farm-waste collection, preparation of compost, collection of grass, green manure and dry fodder. They sell to dairy farms and sell milk to small producers in towns
Production activities:
Those who are engaged in metal works and household items such as tables, chairs, pottery, craft work, mud brick making, candle making, cloth weaving, colouring, etc. Are encouraged to join our entrepreneurial training exercise to enable them access our micro-credit loans harness skills, exposure and business management.
Services:
People who are engaged in road-side painting, house colouring, tailoring, and shops such as fruit juice, tea/snacks/meals hotel, photocopy shops, laundry, driving, tent house, sound and music shop, electrical shop, TV/Radio repairing shop, carpentry, black smith, flour grinder, watch repair shop, local cassava processor are encouraged to participate in the program for more exposure, sustainability and growth.
WATER SANITATION/HYGIENE(WASH)
Sylva Clinton September 25th, 2015
Presently in Nigeria, statistics on access to water and sanitation are conflicting, due to divergent definitions, indicators and methodologies applied by different agencies in the Water sector. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently said 3.4 million people die annually as a result of water borne diseases associated with inadequate provision of drinking water and sanitation. Most of these people live in Asia and Africa. Statistics have it that about 130,000 Nigerian children die within the same period because of water related infections. Diseases like cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery and hepatitis A, are all caused by ingestion of causative water inhabiting pathogens. Guinea worm, Schistosomiasis and a host of other parasitic nematodes likewise find their way into the human body through drinking or bathing with contaminated water. We believe that since the causative factors of these diseases and their habitats are known. IIMGC has in coalition with other CBO’s and NGO’s joined effort to eradicate this menace in the society.
Sadly Nigeria is still battling with water borne diseases, at a National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) briefing (2003-2007), the country recognised that good health is unobtainable, unless the environments in which the people live are healthy. And to this end, the National Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy under NEEDS, accepted that water supply and sanitation are central to improvements in so many aspects of human, health, education, urban and rural development. Presently in Nigeria, statistics on access to water and sanitation are conflicting, due to divergent definitions, indicators and methodologies applied by different agencies in the Water sector.
The World Health Organisation and UNICEF report for 2012 ranked Nigeria third behind China and India as countries with the largest population without adequate water supply and sanitation coverage.
IIMGC is striving to educate people more on the far reaching consequences of waterborne diseases especially in terms of the huge financial implication of treating these diseases and the number of lost man hours and even possible death when a person is afflicted with any of them. There is also a need to merge the pre- colonial traditional sanitation system whereby family heads monitored sanitation with the western standards of sanitation. This will ensure that everybody is responsible for a clean environment to facilitate proper waste disposal, prevent contaminants and faecal waste being washed into the gutters, canals and rivers thereby finding their way to sources of drinking and bathing water.
Certainly, there is a need for clearly defined responsibility for sanitation, better monitoring and greater commitment on the part of all tiers to ensure that goals set are met. We want to also remind all stakeholders to join the effort of IIMGC Project for Water Sanitation and Hygiene (IPWASH) commitments for rural community primary schools, secondary schools, health centres and households.
Districts water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion project aims to improve the health situation of 69,258people of the poor rural people in each state. The communities in these districts are currently suffering from chronic health problems due to lack of access to clean and adequate water, sanitation and hygiene education that in turn resulted in poor economic status. The project will address these key needs which form the basis of all development through participatory, inclusive and effective means to bring about the following life changing project purposes:
• We envisage the safe water supply coverage of the districts will be increased by 21.6%, 15.6% and 1.44% in remote districts respectively,
• Elapsed time to fetch water for rural women and girls will be reduced from 3- 4 hours to 30 minutes after project implementation,
• The project district population with access to and use of sanitation facilities will be increased by 6.4%, 5.3% and 0.83% in remote districts respectively,
Moreover, the implementation of this project will also contribute in achieving the millennium sustainable goals (specifically to Ensure Environmental Sustainability, Reduce Child mortality, Achieve Universal / Primary education and Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger) of the nation.
IIMGC Press Release
ONGOING IIMGC MICRO-CREDIT EMPOWEREMENT PROGRAM
Mustapha A.Tsoho
Project Coordinator June 2015
IIMGC began the Initiative for the Economic Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs, farmers and traders Project (IEEWEFTP). The goal of the project was to increase women income and participation in economy and inclusion of women voices in Nigeria. IIMGC defends human rights and has implemented various programs that have led to the health improvement and poverty reduction of several women and the underprivileged members of the society. These included the elderly, the disabled, youths, widows, unemployed and other marginalized members of the community.
IIMGC micro-credit loan was initiated to help underprivileged women improve their livelihood.
The minimum amount the bank could offer was N50, 000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) and the maximum of N300, 000 (Three Hundred Thousand Naira) with a repayment period of 6 months. Two types of account were opened to all interested members who has business that need fund for expansion individual and group account. The group account signatory shall be the Chairman, Secretary and treasurer.
An IIMGC group account was opened and about 10 people were disbursed about of N2, 500, 000 (Two Million Five Hundred Naira) already after the bank officials, in conjunction with IIMGC officers, conducted their due diligence. Some of the beneficiaries are:
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Name Amount
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Mrs Chinasa Oko Ihere N200,000
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Mr Amos Ahiaba N300,000
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Blessing Aburime N150,000
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Caroline Mgbenkemdi N150,000
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Chioma Nwaokoro N150,000
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Star Nwazurike N120,000
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Chika Collins N150,000
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Isaia Edibo N150,000
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Emmanuel Anorue N200,000
The beneficiaries are classified into market women, petty traders and farmers groups. The disbursement to the first group have started paying back according to the structured process as well as the weekly repayments from the beneficiaries from each group which has commenced in earnest. Due to the stringent assessment of risks and challenges IIMGC advised on the options of paying back into various outlets from different places making transactions easier to monitor and manage. A visible Considerably visible and substantial financial growth as well as boost of confidence amongst the beneficiaries as they inch more towards financial independence and inclusion away from abject poverty, deprivation, abuse, low self-esteem.
2000-GIRL CHILD EDUCATION CAMPAIGN(2gcec)
The program provides young women in secondary school from underserved communities with a pathway to university. A pilot project in Nigeria,with the support of funders and partners we will provide 2,000 girls entering the 11th grade with scholarship support combined with innovative leadership and life skills training to help them complete their secondary education and equip them with the tools needed to continue on to university. We shall Select 500 girls from each the fourntarget underserved communities .
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR SEEDS COALITION
In line with UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030, SEEDS is a comprehensive all-inclusive sustainable development initiative scheme under IIMGC to form a collaborative coalition partnership pact with various Government Ministries, Directorates & Agencies (MDAs), NGOs, CBOs, Civil Societies, Embassies/High Commissions, UN, AU, EU, Organizations and Private Sector etc., to campaign, develop, implement and accomplish its initiatives on economic development resolutions through its collaborative synergy with its partners.
OBJECTIVES
Its objectives is to build strong peaceful communities globally that provide people with opportunities to earn a dignified living, raise healthy families, capacity building, volunteer networks, coalition networks and by forging linkages among government, business and the citizen sectors to achieve social, economic, human rights, and environmental justice.
METHODOLOGY
SEEDS empowers local citizens in various communities by working with volunteers, CBOs/NGOs and stakeholders to implement/provide direct or indirect educational/health/economic training opportunities, peace sensitizations/campaign, secure project funding, Build Infrastructure-Developments, Health Care, Agriculture, Child Protect Rights, Women Rights & Inclusion, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Education, Heritage, encourage Ecosystem, Renewable Energy, Green revolution, Wildlife Conservation, Skill empowerment Training, Entrepreneurial Training, WASH etc.