EVENT
The 1000 Naira Challenge
April 20, 2019
Donate in units of 1000 naira to a woman to start a business and invite 10 friends to donate same and accure start up funds.
The 1000 Naira Challenge ..
Get benefits of helping women start an Enterprise and gain the joy of philanthropy
- Build a pyramid of friends with each level of 10 join to microlend a women in units of 1000 naira
The 1000 Naira Challenge ..
Get benefits of helping women start an Enterprise and gain the joy of philanthropy
- Build a pyramid of friends with each level of 10 join to microlend a women in units of 1000 naira
Current Projects
Rural Women Enterprise Development Initiative
Help rural women gain economic self sufficiency and feed their families
(RWENDI)
Donation Goal: N3,500,000
Generosity Program
Support poor women and families in urban slums
Donation Goal: N3,500,000
Supporting Technology Integration in Rural Education
Give a village school an ICT lab
(S.T.I.R.E)
Donation Goal: N3,500,000
Strengthening Women in Construction
Skill a low income young woman in construction trades
(S.W.I.C)
Donation Goal: N3,500,000
Teach Young People Entrepreneurship (T.Y.P.E)
support students acquire relevant entrepreneurship skills towards enterprise development
Rural Women Enterprise Development Initiative (RWENDI) is a social enterprise model for low income rural women to access support services, acquire relevant enterprise management, and production skills.
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Problem
Inadequacy in income adversely affect the ability of low-income women to pay for and access basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing, education and health; further resulting in poor living conditions, health and wealth outcomes- that further exacerbate their condition.
Causes
Women are affected with poverty more than men due to the general lack of basic skills, low educational status, lack of employment opportunities, discriminating and limiting cultural laws- that fosters gender inequality. Rural women make up over a quarter the world population and majority of the 43 per cent of women in the global agricultural labour force. In Nigeria that number translates to about 48 Million and 40 Million respectively.
Rural women are active agents of economic and social change and environmental protection yet continue to face serious challenges as a result of gender-based stereotypes and discrimination that deny them equitable access to opportunities, resources, assets and services. Hence, they are constrained in their roles as farmers, producers, investors, caregivers and consumers.
Rural women often lack timely market information, face challenges in negotiating prices with buyers and have difficulty physically accessing markets due to limited transport opportunities and restrictions on their mobility.
SOLUTION
Increase access to education, enterprise development and support services that will promote low-income women and young people economy self- sufficiency sufficiency by training training rural women to develop micro enterprise terprise management skills Increase access to education, enterprise development and support services that will promote low-income women and young people economy self- sufficiency by training rural women to develop micro enterprise management skills
OUTCOME
25% of the 1000 supported rural women reporting improved incomes as a result of acquired enterprise management skills
SUSTAINABILITY
The rural women are trained trained on an agricultural agricultural enterprise terprise like rural homestead homestead poultry skills, skills, goat rearing rearing and bee keeping. keeping. They run a cooperative society that is self-go self-governed to sponsor sponsor loans, seek grants and access markets. The rural women are trained on an agricultural enterprise like rural homestead poultry skills, goat rearing and bee keeping. They run a cooperative society that is self-governed to sponsor loans, seek grants and access markets.
PROJECT MODEL
PEOPLE
A wealth rank survey is used to select low income women living in the rural communities.
ENGAGEMENT
The women are placed in self help groups to engage their interest in the different enterprise trainings available.
TRAINING
The low-income women are trained on basic and replicable agricultural enterprises with start-up materials.
IMPACT
ECONOMIC – PROSPERITY
More income, balanced nutrition, enterprise development and economic self sufficiency
SOCIAL – PEOPLE
Less rural to urban migration Healthy and educated rural families. Improved household incomes
DISTRIBUTION
The women are given the basic needs catering to food, clothing and educational materials at low cost.
SUPPORT
#60,000 as a social start-up fund for a rural woman
For production enterprise and management skills for a rural woman.
We strive to ensure that 10% is used on administrative costs and 90% for our programs.
68% and 84.5 % of the Nigerian population live below $1.25 per day and $2 per day, low income women in peri urban slums and rural areas fall majorly into this percentage due to low opportunities and socio-economic problems.
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SOLUTION
A generosity intervention that brings poor women and their families living in the slum out of poverty within 2 years. their own business at an early age, also employing youths like themselves, thereby improving their livelihood and others.
OUTCOME
Improvement in the standard of living of poor women living in the slums, establishing their own sustainable enterprise and/or changing their location for better opportunities.
SUSTAINABILITY
The poor women are given daily basic needs to cover feeding, and education expenses. The costs for these and more are saved in a micro-savings account to start up their chosen enterprise: women cooperatives are arranged to foster getting of grant loans for their business and monitoring.
PROJECT MODEL
PEOPLE
A wealth ranking survey is used to select low income women who fall into the problem range.
DEPLOYMENT
Generosity boxes are placed in schools and other organizations to gather basic needs.
DISTRIBUTION
The women are given the basic needs catering to food, clothing and educational materials at low cost.
IMPACT
ECONOMIC – PROSPERITY
More income and savings culture; improving their standard of livelihood, living above $2 daily.
SOCIAL – PEOPLE
Less rural to urban migration and reduction in the poor living in the slums.
ENVIRONMENTAL – PLANET
Sanitation conditions of the slums improve through education and improved income. Urban overcrowding and small spaces reduced significantly.
SUPPORT
#75,000 provides a generosity box placed in schools and organizations to gather basic items and offer support.
We strive to ensure that 10% is used on administrative costs and 90% for our programs.
Teach Young People Entrepreneurship is designed to support secondary school students acquire relevant entrepreneurship skills towards enterprise management and economic self-sufficiency.
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Problem
Nigeria rates high in unemployment among other developing nations with a recent spike of 23.10%; a major population of the unemployed are the youths. Young people continue to suffer neglect as they rate 13.41% of the unemployed in Nigeria; this makes them a major population of those who cannot afford education and a good standard of living..
SOLUTION
To curb the root of unemployment more youths need to be empowered, by supporting them through capacity building programs in their bid to develop employable, and enterprise management skills. An initiative that educates young people on entrepreneurship, so they can develop avid interest in owning their own business at an early age, also employing youths like themselves, thereby improving their livelihood and others.
OUTCOME
2000 low income students are informed and understand the practical principles and advantages of entrepreneurship. Improvement in secondary education due to the added value of extra classes on entrepreneurship in their curriculum.
SUSTAINABILITY
Empowered students form a network of educated and skilled entrepreneurs who can train other students and create cell groups of youths running different enterprise niches along their targeted business value chain.
PROJECT MODEL
KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE
Training Modules are developed and materials prepared for entrepreneurship classes..
DEPLOYMENT
Youth corp members are grouped and deployed to rural and peri-urban secondary schools. Monthly or bimonthly entrepreneurship training classes for 1000 students.
GROUPING
Cell groups of different enterprise models are formed and monitored
PROJECT MODEL
ECONOMIC – PROSPERITY
More youths can earn for themselves, improving their income status and afford advanced education.
SOCIAL – PEOPLE
Less youths dive into immoral vices, becoming responsible and value adding citizens.
ENVIRONMENTAL – PLANET
More youth led community development programs solving issues using different business models.
SUPPORT
#15,000 will train a student on enterprise management skills; building a young entrepreneur.
#40,000 aids a start up fund for one low-income student on a business enterprise
We strive to ensure that 10% is used on administrative costs and 90% for our programs.
Many rural students are often deprived of quality education due to lack of qualified teaching force and access to quality learning materials. Supporting Technology Integration in Rural Education is an initiative aimed at availing the opportunity presented by ICT; in increasing access to quality education in rural schools.
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Problem
Rural school students have more than 5 times lesser chances of going into higher education than the urban ones. Yet for various reasons, qualified teachers are not keen to move to rural areas. Poverty is especially severe in rural areas, where up to 80 per cent of estimated 100million rural populations live below the poverty line, with limited access to basic socioeconomic support and opportunities 90% of Youths in rural communities’ lack basic ICT skills due to poor educational facilities.
SOLUTION
A community learning center that addresses the learning, teaching and training needs of the teachers and pupils. A capacity building initiative geared towards learning and improving computer literacy and ICT skills fitted for 21st century.
OUTCOME
1000 rural students access ICT enabled learning centers in their schools & community. Teachers access technology enabled 21st century teaching techniques and standard online knowledge
SUSTAINABILITY
Functional ICT business enterprise will run in the learning centers for marketing promotions Community support and donations from women cooperatives and community leadership will be encouraged for sustenance of established centers.
PROJECT MODEL
KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE
Training Modules are developed and materials prepared for entrepreneurship classes..
DEPLOYMENT
Youth corp members are grouped and deployed to rural and peri-urban secondary schools. Monthly or bimonthly entrepreneurship training classes for 1000 students.
GROUPING
Cell groups of different enterprise models are formed and monitored
PROJECT MODEL
ECONOMIC – PROSPERITY
More youths can earn for themselves, improving their income status and afford advanced education.
SOCIAL – PEOPLE
Less youths dive into immoral vices, becoming responsible and value adding citizens.
ENVIRONMENTAL – PLANET
More youth led community development programs solving issues using different business models.
SUPPORT
#15,000 will train a student on enterprise management skills; building a young entrepreneur.
#40,000 aids a start up fund for one low-income student on a business enterprise
We strive to ensure that 10% is used on administrative costs and 90% for our programs.
Strengthening Women in Construction aims to support equality in work and income distribution among women. The SWIC programme is designed to offer young women pre-apprenticeship training in class and on the job for specific skilled trades in the construction industry. It includes employability and workplace preparation to help women prepare for a predominately male work environment as well as to make them aware of employer expectations
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Problem
Women only account for 9% of the construction work force in Nigeria, constantly challenged with the barriers of entry, development and retention. Women have continued to be underrepresented and underutilized in construction industry sector which have been regarded traditionally as stereotypically “male” occupations
SOLUTION
Empower more women to learn employable skills along the construction value chain in order to gain entry into the construction sector and improve their livelihood. Advocacy to Construction companies for a more supportive and unbiased unbiased role in promoting the entry of skilled skilled and qualified ualified women into the construction industry, and in so doing closing closing the inequality gap whilst fostering ostering women economic self-sufficiency self-sufficiency .
OUTCOME
25% increase in young women working in the construction sector.
SUSTAINABILITY
A cooperative of young women in the construction sector is established, who continues to support , train, empower and identify more opportunities for female placements in the construction work sector
PROJECT MODEL
RECRUITMENT
300 women are recruited across the country from wide poo
CAPACITY BUILDING
The women are trained on employable skills, also most successful are empowered to start.
PROCURE & DISTRIBUTE
A platform that trains, empowers and places the skilled women through a guiding channel is established for the construction companies to grow and have more manpower.
PROJECT MODEL
ECONOMIC
The gross development profit of the construction sector increases and more women can earn from their skilled labour.
SOCIAL – PEOPLE
Less youths dive into immoral vices, becoming responsible and value adding citizens.
ENVIRONMENTAL – PLANET
More youth led community development programs solving issues using different business models.
SUPPORT
#70,000 as a social start-up fund to provide a woman construction tools.
#45,000 for intensive training to acquire skills on choice construction value chain
We strive to ensure that 10% is used on administrative costs and 90% for our programs.
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The strategic focus is simply to harness existing local resources in fostering sustainable partnerships for economic and social development.
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