Train Women & Youths in Nigeria on Wealth Creation

Dear supporters, family and friends of Serendipity, 

With the onset of the pandemic of COVID 19 and its spread in Kano where the project is located, it has become very difficult to assess the project site because of the lockdown currently observed in the state.

However during the days that the lockdown is eased, we were able to visit to project site to see how the women thus far trained are faring in their businesses and general well being. As part of impact assessment of the impact of COVID 19 on their businesses, we carried out a survey on the impact of the pandemic on their businesses and the results are as attached in the document.

From the diagram attached; the first batch of women in blue experienced 45% reduction on sales of their products and the second batch of women in red experienced 31% reduction.

The last two batches of third and fourth batches experienced 75% and 83% respectively, this is because they just started production and making sales, growing their market and then the pandemic occurred and adversely affected their household livelihood.

When asked if they would require a loan to boost their businesses, 54% of them responded they would not mind whilst the remaining 46% were only willing if the interest rate is a single digit with moratorium included. Now more than ever do the women in Kano require your kind assistance in boosting their businesses and be in collaboration with the community Microfinance Bank to ensure monitoring and utilization of the funds received.

Will you help us to succeed on this dream? Your donation towards boosting the already existing businesses of the 40 women trained will go a long way to improve on their household livelihoods and assist their families.

To learn more about our work become our friend on Facebook/serenhealthcare and follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1 or send us an email for any enquiry or advice at serenhealthcare@gmail.com.

Best Regards,

Nmatullah Umar

Links:

• Empowerment and Covid

• Survey results (PDF)
  

Dear supporters, family and friends of Serendipity,

For the past two years we have been able to empower and uplift 50 women thus farout of poverty to reduce post harvest losses from their farm produce. We are still unable to garner enough funds during this time frame to procure another processing machine such that we can present to amother batch of women cooperatives and train them thus we decided to restructure our project to include more women into the already exisiting three cooperatives that we have thus far given the machines.

We at Serendipity, the community leaders, the heads of the three women cooperatives and the leaders of the Tofa Community Developement Association agreed that the sales of the produce after all deductions made from the extracted oil and groundnut cake will go towards training more women and bringing them on board to become members.

During this period only 3 women have been trained and included into the cooperatives but they were not given any grant as a their contribution but rather will be paid for their contribution to the business in other ways such as marketing of the products. However the Tofa Developement Association are making efforts to get a loan from the micro finance bank to cushion the effect of a shortfall and to assist the women more.

Another strategy of raising funds and become self reliant is the hire of those machines to other women that want to process other farm produce at a fee of $1 per day and thus far has been working well for them.

Much work still needs to be done and one thing we have gotten off during this period from this after meeting with all the stakeholders is access to market as this has been the major problem. We have listened and we are restrategising and restructuring the project to see how best we can fit in this new developement to the project.

You can follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1 or like our facebook page/serenhealthcare or send us an email serenhealthcare@gmail.com to give us advice on how to forge ahead and any questions you might have.

Yours Truly,

Niimatullah Umar 

Links:

• Closing the gap