Programs
What we do
Six initiatives carry the work across Nigeria and the home community in Minnesota. Between them they address hunger, schooling, skills, enterprise and health.
- 01
Food Support Initiative
Hunger is the first thing that stops a household getting anywhere else. Essential food items go to vulnerable families, widows, children and underserved communities.
- 02
Educational Support & Digital Literacy Scheme
Learning materials and scholarships for students who would otherwise drop out, alongside artificial intelligence training for the work the digital economy is actually offering.
- 03
Vocational Skill Training & Empowerment
Practical trades — tailoring, catering, plumbing — taught to youths and women, with startup support attached so the skill becomes a business rather than a certificate.
- 04
Financial Support for Businesses
Grants, seed funding and business support for small businesses that have the trade but not the capital.
- 05
Scholarship Fund Program
Financial assistance for bright but underprivileged students, at primary, secondary and tertiary level.
- 06
Healthcare Support Initiative
Medical outreaches, free health screenings, medications and health awareness reach communities where the nearest clinic is not a realistic journey.
Support that reaches households
Food support and scholarships go straight to families, widows, children and students in the communities served. Volunteers hand over provisions and school assistance at community distributions.
The scholarship fund runs across primary, secondary and tertiary levels. Alongside it, the educational support scheme adds learning materials and digital literacy training, introductory artificial intelligence training included, to prepare students for the digital economy.
Health outreach in the community
The healthcare support initiative brings medical outreaches, free health screenings, medications and health awareness programs to underserved communities.
Skills and enterprise
Vocational training gives youths and women a practical trade, such as tailoring, catering or plumbing, paired with startup support, so that a new skill can become a livelihood.
Grants, seed funding and business support services help small businesses grow. What both are after is self-reliance rather than recurring relief.
Ask what is running now: write, and we will say which training places are open and where the next ones will be.
Makoko, August 2024
An empowerment day in Makoko, Lagos State, reached over 150 people from communities across Lagos — women, people with disabilities, widows, and families getting by on very little. Free medical check-ups ran through the day.
What people went home with was equipment to work with rather than a handout: grinding machines, sewing machines, deep freezers, wheelchairs, 50kg bags of rice, and cash gifts. An office opened in Makoko the same day.
Reported by CSR Reporters, 5 August 2024.
Where these programs run
To ask about a partnership, or about working together in any of these communities, write to info@wewad.org.