Progress report
Name of Organization: Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation.
Project Title/Name: Support multipurpose hall construction in Imo State.
Focus Country: Nigeria.
Project Locations: Imo State, Nigeria.
Focus Area: Education, health and environment, Advocacy, Awareness
cultural development, women and youth economic
Empowerment.
Project Type: Direct service,
Proponent: Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation
Address Klm 1 Eke-Ahiara Junction, Umuofor Nnarambia
Ahiara, Ahiazu Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria
BRANCH OFFICE: 88 Murtala Muhammed way,
Yaba, Ebute Metta, Lagos.
EMAIL: support@samonyemaechihumanitarian.org
WEBSITE: https://www.samonyemaechihumanitarian.org
Introduction;
The future of poor children, youths, widows' and Vulnerable living along the street is in darkness. Due to lack of education and proper care and empowerment, the aforementioned have become a prey and liabilities to the societies, These less privileged need love, happiness, counselling and guidance. We need a befitting house where they can be kept and properly taking care of. We need a hospice where the aged will also be given proper healthcare services. The youth learn vocational skills. By building an ultra-modern multipurpose facility there comes a significant amount of infrastructure savings in the long run. It will help to get more use out of the utilities in the building, and it's all housed under one shared location instead of being distributed into multiple facilities and often times, multiple locations. This will help in the economic viability, financial, organization and Community sustainability.
Executive Summary:
Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation is a small and growing organization; it struggles to raise money for building ultra-modern multi-purpose hall. The project will, in essence bring a lot of solutions and changes, by building an ultra-modern multi-purpose facility, there comes a significant amount of infrastructure savings in the long run. It will help to get more use out of the utilities in the building, and it's all housed under one shared location instead of being distributed into multiple facilities and often times, multiple locations. This will help in the economic viability, financial, organization and Community sustainability.
We are quite optimistic that our vision to purchase enough hectares of land for Ultra-modern old people’s rehabilitative care home, Nurses and Doctors quarters, administrative Block, Visitors Lodge, Orphanage home. Buildings for massaging machines, medical equipment, food processing and packaging etc, Will be actualized in the near future. This will bring economic viability to the community and financial sustainability to the organization. Already we had a plot, but this is not sufficient to accommodate all our visions and goals. We need to purchase enough acres of land. The ultra-modern multi-purpose hall will house the following programs: Education, health and environment, advocacy, awareness, cultural development, women and youth economic development.
1. Education: • Empower orphans and vulnerable children in our society through the provision of educational sponsorships, bursaries, school equipment, and uniforms. • Mentor children on career choices and academic excellence. • Disseminate information on social issues affecting young girls. • Meeting and taking children on educational trips to increase their knowledge and exposure.
2. Health and environment: • Target children affected and infected with HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and environmental issues, considering the situation in Imo and its pressing health concerns. • Prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS by creating awareness in the community. • Produce sustainable environmental measures to improve health and sanitation. • Launch a campaign against drug abuse and irresponsible alcohol consumption. • Provide waste, recycling, and management awareness and knowledge.
3. Advocacy and awareness: (through Art, sports, and Cultural Development) • Promote a culture of sports, songs, traditional dance, and poems among community members • Create awareness on children and human rights and protection issues through art, open forums, debates, and audio-visual programs. • Nurture and promote untapped talents in collaboration with like-minded organizations
4. Women and Youth Economic Empowerment: (through micro-finance programs) • Facilitate a micro-credit lending scheme targeting vulnerable women and youth. • Eradicate a cycle of poverty through small-scale businesses among women and youth. • Facilitate business training and development programs among the youth and women. Connect youth and women to business mentorship programs and vocational and innovative skills.
Our multipurpose hall will be useful to conduct a wide range of functions. This hall will be designed with sound and lighting systems. It will have acoustically treated walls and ceilings. It will be well maintained to use it readily. As a great multipurpose space, the hall will satisfy its assigned function's needs as a remarkable multipurpose space –be it multimedia presentations, stage, and musical productions, physical education, or dining services. The air-conditioned ground floor hall is used as an auditorium of the school. It will accommodate about 500 spectators. The first-floor hall will also be used for yoga sessions.
Organizational Background
Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation started in the year 2012, officially registered September 7, 2017. Joined GlobalGiving community May 29, 2021, with a vision to build ultra-modern multipurpose hall to implement her activities through four programs: Education, Health and environment, Advocacy, Awareness, Cultural development, Women and youth economic empowerment. In the first 3 months of its operations, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ did a rapid assessment of existing youth program in the region to discover a dearth of serious, structured interventions with young people in the area. The team from ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ visited more than 20 rural communities and several NGO functionaries operating in the area to learn about the involvement of youth and adult in social initiatives in the area. In these visits, most of the principals, teachers and social workers voiced a need to build leadership among young people on social issues and motivate them to take up social action initiatives. The educators expressed their concerns and difficulties involved in mobilizing young people for social action initiatives.
In the same period, a team from ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ participated in the ‘Change Makers program’ that was conducted jointly by The Nonprofit council with the aim of understanding the current community development initiatives of other NGOs across Nigeria. During this phase the team studied the program design and the community mobilization methods of these NGOs. The team also underwent a one year long mentoring and handholding under this program. In the process, the team also participated in a several learning programs with several NGOs working on community issues from across the nation. In these sessions, the team interacted with more than 12 NGOs and their several community leaders working in different parts of the country.
Equipped with an understanding of local issues and an understanding of the best practices of NGOs from across the country, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ started conducting basic life skill and active citizenship programs in communities in Southeast. The program was named ‘change for life’. These workshops caught the interest of educators and students alike and they welcomed ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ team to conduct repeat workshops on several issues in 15 communities with around 8,367 in attendant. This program also had an indirect outreach of another 4200 people. ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ also initiated a pilot program named ‘Metamorphosis’ that involved families in community outreach program. This program involved around 10,600 farmers from 15 different communities in the area. In the same period, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ conducted two parent counseling workshops in two different communities to discuss the issues of their children. This program titled ‘Parenting and grassroots child-care' helped us put forward our standpoints and increased our acceptance with parents who are the prime decision makers for their children
The success of the initiative inspired us to continue the program with young farmers. Now in its second year of operation, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ has started conducting life skill and active citizenship workshops in 10 additional Communities. This program so far had a direct outreach of 2700 families. Parenting and grassroots child-care has been conducted in two new Communities in the year. Currently, ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation is actively working with 23 communities in Southeast working on different issues in different communities.
In order to give a push to these projects, 'Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ has identified the need for:
a) Help the vulnerable improve and maintain a healthy and independent lifestyle and to maximize their quality of life.
b) Starting of 2 Resource Centers in southeast to address the needs of farmers
a) Resource Centers for youth to learn vocational skills.
b) Resource and Empowerment Centers for farmers to equip them with skills in farming.
Vision and Goal
Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’s ultimate vision is to promote social relationships and mutual support, develop a sense of self-reliance, social responsibility and cohesion within the community, and empowers individuals and families in solving community problems and improving the quality of community life. Inspires stakeholders to become involved/committed to our enterprise. Not what doing but what want to happen. A strong, cohesive local community where all thrive (all are supported to thrive). Where every individual feels valued, connected and fulfilled.
Core values
Involving people, applying knowledge and making things happen. We take as our Motto “Peace, social justice, diversity, fun and democracy as key values” which guide us.
Organizational Structure
‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ is registered as a Trust with Mr AKARAONYE Samuel Ifeanyi, Engr. Greg Ntiwunka, Mr. Joseph Ehioma and Ms James Rosita Nkeiruka as the Board of Trustees.
The ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ Team is currently led by Chief Augustine Anyanwu and comprises of Mr.Dominic Anyanwu, Agnes Cletus Bassey, Mr. Chigbu Uchenna Ezekiel, Ms Anthonia Chuke etc.
Aims and Objectives
Keep the building available, accessible and safe for the use of local people and others. Enable a range of educational, training, employment, cultural and recreational activities to take place which respond to the needs of local people and where all are made to feel valued and safe. Provide access to advice and information for all sections of the community. Provide excellent services to users. Be financially sustainable and continue to strengthen the management of the Centre.
Target Beneficiaries
The direct beneficiaries are the rural communities, the aged, children, orphanage, youth, women and communities. The beneficiaries can use the multipurpose hall as a nenue for their livelihood projects, workshops, meetings, events and recreational activities. Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian foundation can also use the structure for the distribution of relief goods.
Difficulties and Challenges
The major challenges we are facing in carrying out our project is sponsorship. Practically, we have nothing with us to start the project. Ultra-modern multipurpose hall is a capital-intensive project, a long-term project that requires huge chunk of money for investment. Relying solely on our little entrepreneurial ventures cannot help us to maximize our output. We solicit for sponsorship and grants. Join us in this forth coming little by little GlobalGiving fundraising campaign dated April 4th through 8th.
Sustainability of the Project:
The ability of our organization as a whole to survive and to meet our mission goal, we embark on an entrepreneurial venture, as a way of raising money for community, financial and organizational sustainability. The foundation runs a food production, processing and packaging factory. We have been partnering with a company in processing our food items for sales. We are working hard to build our own factory for our organizational sustainability, and to help youth that have vocational skill to acquaint themselves with entrepreneurial skills to be resourceful and useful to themselves and society at large. The procurement of the necessary equipment for production, processing and packaging of organic raw materials(food) and construction of a multi-purpose hall that will accommodate our factory and other activities is our priority, we can achieve this through external sources like grants and long-term funding or through internal sources like income-generating activities or membership fees. And to actualize our mission and goal, we have these points as our guiding principles: Collaborative leadership, member-driven decisions,
effective communication, change-ready and adaptive workforce continuous improvement, on- going evaluation and measurement, sound financial infrastructure.
Annexes
Annexed below is a sample of this section that has been drawn from the project report of ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ – a non-profit organization that works with young adolescents, youths and adult in rural Communities.
*Overview of the Program:
We at ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ very much value exposure, interaction and peer learning processes. Our recent interactions with more than 20 Communities have reinforced this belief. We are now looking out for support to create 2 youth resource and Empowerment centers in southeast, Nigeria where young, adult etc can come together, co-create learning experiences and contribute positively to the community development. We plan to utilize these resource Empowerment centers as spaces for involving the youth and adult in “self-development” and ‘social action’ projects of various kind.
'Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ has the required experience and expertise to design and run social action campaigns. We feel campaigns are great opportunities to demonstrate leadership skills, highlight social issues, develop deeper understanding about issues and mobilize young people. Campaigns give energy and take care of youth and adult needs such as fun, interaction, novelty etc. We want to organize a campaign each year highlighting youth action.
What we have achieved so far?
‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ is now an accepted name in more than 35 Communities. Our volunteers are personally known to tens of thousands of families in southeast. As a part of self-development initiative, we have conducted workshops in more than 25 Communities in the last 3 years with a direct outreach of approximately 4000 people in the last 3 years. We have so far organized one major campaign in nearby villages where they went and identified families who were not buoyant enough to Carter for their family’s needs.
Since the beginning ‘Sam Onyemaechi Humanitarian Foundation’ has been running out several programs in Communities promoting spirit of volunteerism and celebrating youth led social action. We have organized a major social action project titled ‘Change for life’ in 10 large Communities with an approximate outreach of around 23000 peoples. This project involved collecting and donating used and unused clothes blankets, shoes, food items to the needy.
What we propose?
In this project we propose to undertake the following activities under the aegis of the Resource and Empowerment Center for youth and adult. Youth Resource and Empowerment Center: We wish to build 2 new Youth Resource and Empowerment Centers (YREC) in Southeast over a period of next two years – one for the first-generation school goers and the second for adult in rural Communities. At the end of the two years, we would have been running 2 Youth and adult Resource and Empowerment Centers and the third year would be dedicated to further strengthen and better the functioning of these 2 resource and Empowerment centers.
Awareness Campaign:
We will design and run campaigns involving adolescents’ young people and adult from rural and urban areas every year starting with the end of year 1. The theme of the campaign will be designed by the adolescents. This will help them to consolidate their learnings and create awareness about social issues.
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