Saturday, February 12, 2011

Caring Hands Christian Home, Asaba, Nigeria, West Africa

We are a non-profit,non-govermental charity organization operating in Nigeria,and gradually expanding to other developing countries around the globe.

We need urgent humanitarian assistance to help in renovating an Orphanage based in a city called Onitsha.

A kind gesture showed to these innocent and defenceless babies who lacked parential love and warmt,will bring lots of blessings to you,as the eyes of the Lord is watching us with interests.

Used clothes and food items is a great way of reaching out with love and compassion.

We need some assistance in helping the poor and sick,who are now in the Hospital unable to receive urgent medical attention because of poverty.

Need help and assistance in designing and hosting our new web-site.

Photographs and legal authenticated documents are legal bindings.

Have a Heart please and Reach out with love and Compassion.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

The Center For Development Support Initiatives-cedsi, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, West Africa

In recent times, the resultant effect of long-term neglect has become more evident, the great toll of which is better imagined. Despite growing stakeholders interventions, there is still a wide gap towards rural women and youth empowerment as a lot still wallow in poverty, ignorance, lack of basic functional education, incessant conflicts, insufficient reproductive health information and no sustainable means of livelihood.

CEDSI works to improve the quality of life of its target through various programs. We want to be uniquely positioned to advocate for change, connect communities to knowledge and resources and most of all co-ordinate broader donor efforts at the community level.

This is to help alleviate poverty along low- income disadvantaged individuals through creating an enabling environment for a sustainable development by reduction of violence in the communities where it operates.

Niger Delta Women For Justice, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, West Africa

The Niger Delta Women for Justice (NDWJ) is a non-profit making, non-sectarian, civil society organisation, founded in December 1998.

The organisation is a child of circumstance born out of 40 years of economic and environmental neglect of the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria, culminating in the militarisation of the region over the past 10 years and increased human rights violations.

NDWJ works in close collaboration with other grassroots organisations and women's groups in all of the 15 ethnic nationalities in the Niger Delta. It is committed to improving the personal, economic and educational status of women and to ensuring that their environmental and human rights are upheld.

NDWJ's vision is to facilitate the empowerment of disadvantaged women particularly those in rural areas, through programmes of participatory development.

These programmes seek to transform all aspects of women's lives so that the women themselves begin to recognize their own potential and their rights and begin to speak through their own voices.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Youth Media And Communication Initiative Ymci, Lagos, Nigeria

The Youth Media & Communication Initiative (YMCI) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation actively engaged in developing the involvement of children and youth in the media. YMCI equips children and youth from 10 to 18 years with media and communication skills on child rights, gender, conflict resolution, HIV/AIDS, environment, globalisation, leadership, and development to cope with living in a multi-ethnic and multicultural society, thus laying the foundation for social justice for future generations of Nigerians.

It is open to every Nigerian child/youth irrespective of religious affiliation, language or social background. YMCI aims to provide an opportunity for them to examine the country, its strength and shortcomings in a congenial atmosphere devoid of the tribal and religious tensions that have dogged Nigeria since independence.

The common purpose and focus for all participants in YMCI activities will be how to empower themselves to build a future that will give Nigerians equal opportunities. YMCI will provide a level playing field for children and youth in every nook and cranny of Nigeria. Our agenda is not to teach children and youth to become journalists, but to train them as agents for social mobilization and social change; to develop their capacity for effective communication and self-expression so that they can positively impact their schools, communities and society.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Baobab For Women's Human Rights, Lagos, Nigeria, West Africa

BAOBAB For Women's Human Rights is a not for profit, non-governmental women's human rights organization, which focuses on women's legal rights issues under the three (3) systems of law - customary, statutory and religious laws in Nigeria.

The organization evolved from an ad hoc group of activists, social scientists, lawyers, and specialists in Muslim laws and Arabic who were responsible for executing the Women and Laws Nigeria project, under the auspices of the International Solidarity Network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws from 1993 to 1996.

This three-year multi disciplinary research project on women's legal rights generated a wealth of data which, in order to be efficiently utilized, needed an organizational structure from which outreach work could be planned and executed in the states under study. In 1996, BAOBAB as presently constituted formally came into being.

BAOBAB operates from a national office in Lagos and with outreach teams in 14 states across Nigeria. These are: Adamawa, Borno, Edo, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara. The organization works with women, legal and paralegal professionals, human rights NGOs and members of the general public.

BAOBAB's stated mission is "to promote women's human rights principally via improving knowledge, exercise and development of rights under religious laws, customary laws and statutory laws." We believe our activities during the past few years illustrate our commitment to this mission.