(A Non-Governmental Organization Championed By Turai Umar ‘Yar’Adua)

WOMAN AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION

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Our VisionOur vision is to create and provide support for sustainable socio-economic and political development of women and youth towards achieving the overall development of our country.

Our MissionTo become a foremost and one of the most successful Non- Governmental Organization in achieving effective and sustainable empowerment of Nigerian women and youth by providing support through health, education and socio-economic development programmes.

ObjectivesThe objectives of WAYEF are:To ameliorate the effects of gender related problems facing women;

To facilitate adult literacy and skills acquisition programmes for women and youth;

To help achieve focused delivery of healthcare services to women and youth, especially the rural and urban poor;

1.0 Introduction

To create awareness programmes for women and youth on the effect of Malaria, HIV/AIDS, STDs and other Health Concerns at the grassroots level;

To promote accessibility to micro-finance services for women and youth;

To promote micro-enterprise development for the economic empowerment of women and youth;

To provide avenue for youth re-education, re-orientation and counseling towards imbibing religious and positive cultural values in their respective societies;

To provide vocational and technical educational support for women and youth, and;

To promote community activities.

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Functions of WAYEFBased on the foregoing objectives, the followings are the function of WAYEF:

Mobilizing, sensitizing and assisting women to form viable groups and where such groups exist, strengthened them for targeted group interventions;

Building capacity of women and youth by way of skills training on micro-enterprises including literacy classes and teaching of basic management principles and marketing;

Assisting entrepreneurial women and youth groups in building functional networking relationships such as mentoring, adoption, etc, with leading/governing enterprises, companies and successful NGOs up and down the groups’ commodity/enterprise value chains;Linking women and youth groups and building sustainable beneficial relationships with independent service providers like micro advisory services, micro finance institutions, etc, and mobilizing them for effective savings and credit formation;

Helping to achieve food security and improved healthcare for the citizenry through provision of cost effective and sustainable programmes as enumerated in our health intervention programmes.

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Advocating and lobbying for women and youth empowerment policies, legislations, and programmes at different levels of governance and building the capacities of women and youth NGOs to carry over and sustain the advocacy/lobby activities in the long run;

Collaboration and working with other organizations in realizing WAYEF stated objectives;

Organizing, supporting and encouraging sensitization seminars, workshops, conferences, and training programmes for women and youth groups on various issues of national and global concern;

Undertaking other activities that may be necessary to achieve the objective of the foundation.

2.0 Our ProgrammesWAYEF’s intervention programmes are put into three main sectors, namely, health, education and socio-economic.

The programmes are designed to act as catalyst to the process of social development and it is envisioned that these efforts in the final analysis will give Nigerians a share of mind with the plight of the less privileged.

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2.1 Health Sector InterventionsThe Health sector programmes of WAYEF consists of five components, these areThe VISION ProjectMaternal and New Born Health Improvement Programme (MANHIP)Screening programme for breast and cervical cancer (SPB&CC)HIV/AIDS and STDs intervention programmeDiabetes awareness and education programme

2.11 VISION is a project that will focus on a series of interventions which will ultimately lead to a reduction in cataract and childhood blindness, create awareness about blinding diseases and help towards eradication of unhealthy and medically banned traditional practices related to eye treatment.

2.12 MANHIP aims at providing a responsive and sustainable Maternal and Newborn health service. This will be achieved through better integration and interaction between families, communities, hospitals, health authorities and other stakeholders.

2.13 SPB&CC aims at early detection and intervention, reduction in human, financial and social burdens of cervical and breast cancers and improved mortality and morbidity rates.

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2.14 HIV/AIDS and other STDs intervention programme aims to reduce the infection rate among women and girls through advocacy, health promotion and economic empowerment programmes.

2.15 Diabetes awareness and education aims to improve outcomes of the effects of diabetes through education, prevention and advocacy that are contextually and culturally appropriate.

Many of the programmes under health sector can make direct and immediate impact by adopting the health camp technique. Advantage of the health camp can also be taken advantage of to at the same carry out some health and social development campaigns. This way the camp is both cost effective and highly impacting.

2.2 Social Development and Educational Intervention Programmes

WAYEF shall be committed to social development as one of its key pillars because of its central role in social and economic empowerment. One of Nigeria’s key problems today is how to deal with social ills revolving around poverty. Therefore, poverty reduction and economic empowerment, drug abuse, lifelong education, etc are great social concerns. WAYEFinterventions are aimed at mobilizing and encouraging

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deployment of more resources to support poverty reduction.

Six areas of action have been selected for immediate execution. These areas are:

Information and communication technology in rural schools

Lifelong EducationFight against drug use and abuseHope and Empowerment for the UnderprivilegedAgricultural EmpowermentDesertification and other environmental hazards

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2.21 ICT Capacity in schools especially in rural schools is aimed at enhancing the ability of our students in the rural schools to be abreast with information and communication technology. The intervention will target a training of at least one teacher in every school who will in turn go back and develop IT literacy among the youth in his school/locality.

2.22 Lifelong education intervention will support adult literacy service providers in all the 774 local governments to empower women and youth with critical lifelong skills. WAYEF will identify service providers and intervene in area of numeracy, reading, and writing.

2.23 Abuse of drugs is destroying lives of youth in Nigeria. Intervention in areas of rehabilitation, reformation, re-education, reorientation and counseling of youth towards imbibing more positive values in their societies will be adopted.

2.24 Hope and empowerment for the underprivileged will direct effort at organizing women and youth into groups and eventually facilitate access of women and youth groups to micro-credit to start and promote micro-businesses.

2.25 Majority of Nigerian farmers lack basic necessities to engage into economic agriculture. Intervention in this area will seek to bring these farmers into focus and into favour.

2.26 WAYEF’s interventions in environment will aim more at sensitization and awareness campaigns on land management and environmental conservation issues. It will also build relationships with relevant bodies and agencies to bring about best house hold practices that are environmental friendly.

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