Gender Equality Nigeria Project #29028

Train Women & Youths in Nigeria on Wealth Creation

by Serendipity Healthcare Foundation

Train Women & Youths in Nigeria on Wealth Creation

Project Report | Dec 26, 2018
Changing Lives in Women

By Niimatullah Umar | Rewards Coordinator

After the town hall meet with Gadan Women

Dear Supporters, Friends and Family of Serendipity Healthcare Foundation,

The last you heard from us, soft loans of $30 were given to 10 more women in Tofa Town to jumpstart their businesses and the feedback we have gotten is how four out of the ten women given these soft loans have returned the funds and applied for a rollover. Our collaborating partner is the Tofa Microfinance Bank that has helped us keep track of these funds and acts as a financial adviser and support to these women.

Ever since being given the soft loan, one of the beneficiaries Bishara tells it in her own way how grateful she is to be part of the programme, she has been able to save money and knows the difference now between profit and loss. A video link is attached although it is in the local Hausa Language but it tells and shows how happy she is.

Our collaborating partner of Tofa MicroFinance Bank in the local government are doing a good job of monitoring the usage of the funds and follow up on recovery.

We have taken the programme to Gadan in Ungogo Local Government Area to empower similar women who are in poverty and found out the method at whcih they thresh their millet is similar with the women of Tofa, with a lot of wastages of the millet and spending hours on the chore wasting valuable time to be used to do other household chores.

A meeting was held with the women on how to properly process their grains to reduce wastages and also to know more about community objectives. We realised that unlike the owmen of Tofa who were more enlightened and were already working in groups, the women of Gadan were working individually and thus it was a challenge to how we had already planned the project. However, after due deliberations we decided with the women to form themselves into groups of five as a start such that when the training on how to process efficiently commences, it will be a much easier process. We have learned that every community is unique and thus will modify the project to best suit these new batch of women.

The holidays have come and we would do a first follow up in the new year to coordinate the women group and to register them with the local governing council.

Your continued donation and advice will surely be of great help to bringing these women out of poverty especially now during this festive season donating $25 as a gift to start off these women on training of basic skills.

You can follow us on twitter @serendipityHea1, like our facebook page/ serenhealthcare, send us an email on serenhealthcare@gmail.com or just give us a call on +2348035905524 to know more on how you can help.

Thank you,

Niimatullah Umar

Threshing in the local way

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Aug 16, 2018
And the beat goes on

By Niimatullah Umar | Rewards Coordinator

Getting the loan from the MFB through Serendipity

Dear supporters, family and friends of Serendipity,

Your generous donations have afforded us to train ten more women and given them soft grant of $30 to help them in kickstarting their processing of groundnut into finished products in Gadan, Tudun Fulani community in Ungogo Local Government council, a new local governing council as part of our target in training one hundred women in rural communities by the end of the second quarter of 2019 and providing them with processing machines.

The ten women formed themselves into a group with the approval of the local community-based organization, however they are yet to get their cooperative registered.

Through the provision of the soft grant and trainings received with your support, the women will be able to buy materials for the processing of groundnut, pay for hire fees to use the only threshing machine the community has.

In Tofa community where the project took off from, the twenty women have been able to secure loan as a group from the Tofa Microfinance Bank of $57 each repayable after six months. At our next visit to the community we will share stories of impact that the empowerment programme has changed their lives.

This model will be replicated in more communities before the year runs out to meet our target of uplifting women in rural communities in Kano, Nigeria out of poverty. Will you help us to succeed on this dream? Your donation towards provision of locally fabricated machines, training of entrepreneurial skills to these women will not only alleviate poverty but bring about development to the communities and state.

To learn more about our work, check out our webpage on http://www.srendipityhealthcare.ngo; 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

Project discussion on way forward with the MFB

Training on processing

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May 17, 2018
Putting smiles on a mother

By Abubakar Sadiq | Project Coordinator

2nd Batch Beneficiary

Dear supporters, family and friends of Serendipity,

As you are reading this message, we have trained the second batch of twenty women on groundnut oil processing and extraction within the same community but from a different ward (Sabuwar Tofa), Rahama Kuli Kuli Cooperative Society women were also trained on basic business and entrepreneurial skills.

One of the women from the first batch (Sauki Women Cooperative) earlier empowered showed the women on how to operate the machine; tips on business they have learnt thus far such that they will make enough profit to assist their families and themselves.

With your kind donation, a locally fabricated oil extraction and processing machine was procured and handed over to them just like the first batch of women. Rahama Kuli Kuli Women were taught on the use, maintenance and processing of the groundnut. The machine also has several purposes such that it is not only exclusive to groundnut but can be used to process rice into flour, tomatoes into paste and so on. It is a multi-purpose machine and has thus will open up avenues for the women to be empowered and not necessarily depend on their husbands to provide funds to run the household which they can do independently now.

Prior to now, it took approximately 8 – 12 hours to process and extract oil using local methods but with the introduction of the machine, it takes just 2 hours to complete the entire process.

Subsequent trainings conducted were on basic entrepreneurial skills, bookkeeping and accounting which was handled by our executive director such that they can be accountable in their joint business as well as track their expenditure and income.

A soft grant of $30 was given to each woman such that they can jumpstart on the business and improving on their income through the cooperative with the Tofa Development Association as a supervisory body for sustainability. Further trainings on packaging will be conducted for awareness on how to sell their products to the wider community as now it is limited to their immediate community.

This model can be replicated in neighbouring communities as Dawakin Tofa, Janguza to mention a few as the women thus far trained will not only act as mentors but will also train other upcoming women. Will you help to put a smile on more women? Your donation towards provision of locally fabricated machines, training of entrepreneurial skills to these women will not only alleviate poverty but also bring hope.

Best Regards,

Abubakar Sadiq

Beneficiaries

Training on income and expenses

Train the Trainers and their products

List of 2nd Batch women

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