Advocacy 4 Mental Health Awareness, S/East Nigeria

Happy New Year from us at Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation. We want to, in a special way thank you immensely for your kindness and generosity to our project. Thanks for your support which has helped us impact many lives in our community. We do not take your donations for granted at all, it is gratefully appreciated.

We are happy to have the opportunity from GlobalGiving to enable our cherished donors to support our cause in "expedite young-adult empowerment initiative.

Besides, as we reitirated in our last year report, the majority of young-adult youths are more likely to be unhappy at school, be absent, or be suspended or expelled. Their learning is negatively impacted because of poor concentration, distractibility, inability to retain information, poor peer relationships, and aggressive behavior. The majority of Youths are victims of the aforementioned.

During the course of our workshop and seminars with the youths, we have discovered that many factors increase the risk of developing or triggering youth depression, including: Having issues that negatively impact self-esteem, such as obesity, peer problems, long-term bullying or academic problems. Having been the victim or witness of violence, such as physical or sexual abuse.

As earlier mentioned in our last report, the major problems we face in our project management is occasioned by poor funding, inadequate equipment to execute the projects, absence of technical expertise, economic and political instability and environmental. All these contribute to delaying our performance in our humanitarian services.

This is a good opportunity to invest in the lives of our youths by offering them counselling opportunities and giving them a vocational skill. Your donation is a trickle down effect to better the lives of youths.

Contributions like yours are continuing to make a difference. They are supporting Sam Onyemaechi humanitarian Foundation's response efforts and delivering crucial help and hope to people in need amid hostilities, constant stress, and difficult conditions away from home.

We initiated a body term ("Gesah") Great Entrepreneurial Skills Actualization Hub and ("Rucomdevin scheme") Rural community development initiative scheme"to fight for the rights of youths and indigent families in all spheres of life . Seminars and workshops are organized twice in every month to speak on these projects: "Talent Discovery" and youth and the era of digitalization. We constituted ten personnel who organized workshops and seminars to look into the aforementioned project topics that concern youth empowerment and development.

Below is how we receive money and how it was used.

*INCOME*

Disbursement from GlobalGiving on the 26th of January, 2023= $9.09

proceeds from social enterprise sales to support the Program = $305

Support from individuals for the program =$95

Grand Total of income =$409.09

Below is a short description of some of the humanitarian relief you have supported us with and how your donation was used.

Expenditures

Gifts to young-adult youths= $350

designing of Banner and graphic artist = $30

Renting of canopy and chairs= $40

Grand total of expenditures = $420

Deficit= $-10.91

We will keep you informed about how your donation is impacting the lives of people who are suffering because of this shortage.

Once again, thank you for your generous donation to expedite young-adult empowerment initiative that supported these efforts.

We therefore urge you to share our project with your network of family and friends to impact the lives of these youths. Thank you for your donation and getting your network to do the same. Remember when youths rise the world thrives

Moreso, we thank God for a successful 10th year of Humanitarian excellence. Without your fraternal solidarity we wouldn't have marked this event. You made it what it is today. Thanks for being there for us. We appreciate.

With Kindest regards,

Samonyemaechi Humanitarian

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." We cannot but thank you immensely for your kindness, generosity, and expression of solidarity to our project, "EXPEDITE YOUNG-ADULT EMPOWERMENT INITIATIVE IN S/EAST (54408)". In the past three months of our last project report, we haven't received donation through GlobalGiving link platform as at the time of this report. Within the last three months, we have received few donations from few individuals who assisted us through In-kind donations. And our little contributions. Here is the little income we were able to receive and how it was used for our humanitarian services:

*INCOME*

a) In-kind contribution=$150.45

b) individual contributions= $95.23

c) balance of income of last project report = $00.44

Grand total =$246.12

Below is a short description of some of the humanitarian relief you have supported is with your donation.

EXPENSES

i) Facilitators appreciation = $70

ii) Volunteer/Staff appreciation = $50

iv) Communication and telephone bills = $ 30

v) Graphic Artist = $30

vi) Conference hall bill = $100

Grand Total = $310

Balance= $-63.88

Besides, majority of young-adult youths are more likely to be unhappy at school, be absent, or be suspended or expelled. Their learning is negatively impacted because of poor concentration, distractibility, inability to retain information, poor peer relationships, and aggressive behavior. Majority of Youths are victims of the aforementioned.

During the course of our workshop and seminars with the youths, we have discovered that many factors increase the risk of developing or triggering youth depression, including: Having issues that negatively impact self-esteem, such as obesity, peer problems, long-term bullying or academic problems. Having been the victim or witness of violence, such as physical or sexual abuse.

As earlier on mentioned in our last report, the major problems we face in our project management is occasioned by poor funding, inadequate equipment to execute the projects, absence of technical expertise, economic and political instability and environmental. All these contribute to delaying our performance in our humanitarian services.

Once again, thank you for your generous donation to "Expedite young-adult empowerment initiative in S/East (54408)" that supported these efforts.

As the crises rages on, insecurity, uncertainty, and humanitarian needs abound. We are committed to providing humanitarian and long-term support to young-adult youths to give them sense of belonging in the society.

Moreso, #givingtuesday campaign is right around the corner, November 29, we will be grateful to partner with you on that special day. We will also give you update as the campaign approaches through our project appeal letter as a reminder for the campaign exercises. Thanks for considering our organization and proud to partner with us.

With Kindest regards,

Samonyemaechi humanitarian.