SI4DEV has been working round the clock to achieve our goals and exceed our targets. As we head into another year, please nominate us as one of the 36 NGOs to receive financial support from Union Bank towards expanding our… Read More
Happy Learners Project Now Complete!
It is my pleasure to inform you that the implementation of handwashing and hygiene education tagged the Happy Learners project for children in Kaduna state primary schools has been successfully completed! There were some hiccups, since beginning in February 2019,… Read More
Call for Volunteer Enablers to Deliver the SI4DEV Life Skills Manual and Peer Group Coaching for Ages 10 – 19
In Nigeria, young people in the 10 – 19 age range are the most numerous and yet most overlooked and underrepresented in programs to improve life skills for employability or other positive life outcomes. The Life Skills and Peer Group… Read More
Call for Volunteer Assistant Coaches for the Street Business School by SI4DEV
We are excited to embark on a new adventure! In order to strengthen our ongoing commitment to grow human capital and eradicate poverty, we have become Street Business School (SBS) certified. This has enabled us add entrepreneurial education to our… Read More
Over 110 Students in Ikorodu School Benefit from Mental Health Counseling
SI4DEV Partner, Barrister Nwamaka Osu is working on a pilot project in a school in rural Lagos using seminars and a counseling unit to reduce mental health issues, depression and drug abuse among students. The first seminar which was on… Read More
50 Girls Enroll in the G-Health Club for Education on Rights and Reproductive Health.
Patricia Okolo, SI4DEV Alumni and current Operations and Publicity Secretary is piloting a girls’ health and education project in a secondary school situated in a deprived community in Abuja. She received approval from relevant education authorities and the pilot began… Read More
In Pakuro Village, the Women are Changing the Story
Over 50 men and women in Pakuro Village in Ogun State near Lagos have been part of the pilot project by Strategy and Innovation for Development Initiative (SI4DEV) partner Juliet Obi to acquire vocational skills, become business owners and improve… Read More
65 Students Participate in Life Skills Clubs in Benue
Between February and April 2019, Emmanuella Ikomon, SI4DEV partner in Benue state Makurdi location group piloted the Life Skills Peer Group Support Project at the CAC Coeducational School in Makurdi and the UBE Girls Junior Secondary School. Emmanuella provided leadership… Read More
Bayelsa School Adopts Toilet Cleaning Roster to Reduce Open Defecation
SI4DEV partner Henry Afor is working with Kpansia community school in Bayelsa state in a pilot project to keep their toilets clean so that students will avoid and stop open defecation. This project includes training up leaders among the students… Read More
Over 800 Children Reached with Handwashing Education in Kaduna!
The “HAPPY LEARNERS PROJECT” was developed to teach and create hand washing awareness in 25 schools, 5 LGA’s and targeted at 2000 children within the age range of 5-12 years in Kaduna State. Strategy and innovation for development initiative (SI4DEV)… Read More