Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Reading and Writing (RAW)

Activity: To spend some time with local communities in Abuja reading short books, encouraging storytelling and playing games.
Time: Saturday every fortnight. There is not minimum required.
Comments: Set-up by the publisher Cassava Republic, this NGO aims at promoting literacy development and creative writing in Nigeria. The Book Drive is a project to inspire a love of books, to overcome the difficulties of accessing books and to encourage families to support and get involved in their kids reading. Each week volunteers will drive to a public space within one of the 6 communities chosen inside Abuja. Volunteers will be equipped with a Book Drive Kit - books for children and young adults, games, toys, rugs and cushions. Families from that community will be welcomed to come along and enjoy it all for free.
Phone: 07060514007
Email: gillianparker3@yahoo.co.uk Web: http://rawnigeria.blogspot.com

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Daughters of Charity

Activity: To assist teachers during the lessons, to run new activities, to train teachers on special needs, to counsel or to train in HIV, to help in the hospital.
Time: For the school Monday to Friday 8am-1pm, for the counselling on HIV Monday to Friday 8am-4pm.
Requirement for hospital: professionals of health.
Comments: There is a school of about 50 children with special needs. Apart from common subjects they learn skills such as beads, tie and dye or postcards. When the children grow up there is a programme for them to work. The sisters also run a self-sustainable hospital with assistance for those that cannot pay for their treatment. There is a special section on HIV sponsored by an institution. The hospital has been working for several years and it seems to do well.
Address: Kubwa
Contact: 0803 666 2333 (sister Bibian) mbanumben@gmail.com

Hope for Survival

Activity: To organise activities with children, to teach them during their holidays.
Time: Week-ends 10am-12noon, 2pm-7pm.
Comments: It is an orphanage with about 40 children from 1 to 16 year old, constantly increasing in number. They have a school and a computer room.
Address: Gishiri Village (Maitama Ext.), Abuja. You can arrive taking a no-asphalted road from Nicon Junction. There are okadas that go there.
Phones: 095 230 901 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              095 230 901      end_of_the_skype_highlighting // 0803 604 1852 // 0806 532 4119 // 080808 34 994
Email: hso2006@yahoo.com

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Bema Homes for the Less Privileged

Activity: To organise activities with children (including computer lessons, sign language and special education, sports, teaching); to train their teachers or nannies; to help teachers in the school; to train women; to consult if you are a medical doctor or a nurse, to counsel or train in HIV if you are an expert in this topic.
Time to be in the school: Monday to Friday 9am-12noon. To do activities with children and teachers: Monday to Friday 2:30pm-9pm, Saturdays and Sundays 7am-9pm. To train nannies: Monday to Friday 7am-1:30pm.
Comments: There is a small orphanage of 19 children and a school that other children also attend. There is also a training centre where other initiatives take place. Some of them have already started, others are waiting for volunteers or funds to start. They are planning to move to a new house in Lugbe.
Address: Sauka Mararaba. 15km drive from Gudu Cemetery behind Apo, New Mechanic Village Apo, Abuja. When you arrive to the end of the off-road turn on the right. They can offer you transport from Abuja. Web : www.bemaorphanage.org
Phones: 0805 274 6710 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0805 274 6710      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0805 274 6710      end_of_the_skype_highlighting // 080 5522 99 17 // 0808 661 3107
Emails: bema4thehelpless@yahoo.com bemedicta2007@yahoo.com

Friday, July 23, 2010

Centre for Children with Special Needs

Activity: To assist teachers during the lessons or to run new activities.
Time: Monday to Friday 8am-1pm.
Requirements: There are not requirements, but people with expertise in speech or physical therapy, music or art therapy, drama, IT skills, or teaching experience are mostly welcome.
Comments: It is a public school with toddlers, children and young people, split out into small groups and with individualized programmes. Their disabilities are very diverse. There is a physiotherapist working there. They have a garden, some play equipment and a small vegetable plot. There is an extra room for the young adult group.
Address: 4, Lake Chad Crescent, off IBB way, Maitama, Abuja.
Phones: 09 6720 399 // 0802 3053 454.
Email: ccsaabuja@yahoo.com

Hope House School

Activity: To assist teachers during the lessons or to run new activities. The younger children need some help with meal times, toilet and dressing, meanwhile the older are more independent. In general they need more particular attention.
Time: 8am-1:30pm, Monday to Thursday. 8am-1:30pm on Fridays.
Comments: It is a private school with around 25 children with learning difficulties or disabilities, although none of them has a severe physical impairment. They are distributed in four groups depending on their abilities, and each child has a personal programme. They take lunch in the classroom. There is a trained teacher and one assistant in every group and the school is well equipped with pedagogical materials, although they don’t always use them much. There is a playground and a vegetable plot. They organise special activities in August, for the Special Olympics and trips.
Address: 27, Pope John Paul II Street, off Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja.
Phones: 0941 31316 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0941 31316      end_of_the_skype_highlighting, 2731 424, 0802 319 0026, 0703 679 8724, 0806 110 5598, 080 3314 3996, 0802 673 2620, 0807 854 8521.
Emails: info@hopehouseschoolonline.com, abswilly2000@yahoo.co.uk
Web: www.hopehouseschoolonline.com

The Zamarr Institute

Activity: To train staff in arts, psychiatry, etc.; or to play with children.
Time: Any time for the training, 8am-5pm to play with children (mostly 8am-2pm).
Comments: It is a private school specialized in autistic children, although they have other children with other needs. They are 12 students in total.
Address: 27, Libreville str., off Aminu Kano crescent, Wuse 2.
Phones: 08033 143 671 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              08033 143 671      end_of_the_skype_highlighting // 0802 765 3255 // 0805 864 9760
Emails: zamarrinstitute@yahoo.com, info@thezamarrinstitute.org
Web: www.thezamarrinstitute.org

City of Refuge (Maitama)

Activity: To organise activities with children, or just to show them you care for them.
Time: 4-6 pm., Monday to Friday. Weekends or during vacational periods: 9am-6pm.
Comments: It is an orphanage with more than forty children between 0 and 11 years old, but those elder than 6 are in boarding schools and they live in the orphanage only during vacational periods. Children lack in love and discipline.
Address: 5, Asa Street, off Gana Street, Maitama, Abuja.
Phone: 080 330 858 25 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              080 330 858 25      end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              080 330 858 25      end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Email: esther_cityofrefugeorphanage@yahoo.com, esther@cityofrefugeorphanage.com
Web: www.cityofrefugeorphanage.net

Global Vision Educational Foundation

Activity: To train teachers or women, to give ideas and counseling, to do activities with children, mainly on Saturdays.
Time: Friday and Saturday, 10am-2pm.
Comments: There is a children’s library and a classroom for about 20 children out of school, who attend daily. On Saturdays there are special activities. The NGO also assists widows and people HIV possitive.
Address: After the palace of the king in Ibo road, behind Karu LG Secretariat, Nasarawa State.
Phone: 0704 162 40 57 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              0704 162 40 57      end_of_the_skype_highlighting Email: globalvision_foundation@yahoo.com

Children under 5 health initiative

Activity: To find the patiences’ files, to open new files, to measure and weight children, to provide medicines, to consult if you are a doctor, to interpret local languages, to advise people in health issues, to teach adults how to read and write, to take care of a kindergarten, to organise other activities for the development of the village, etc.
Time: Fridays 3pm-6:30pm for health activities. The other activities don’t have a fixed time.
Comments: Every Friday a group of local and international volunteers meet at 3pm to go to Kobi, a village a few kilometres from Asokoro. They provide with free medical services for children and then they go back to Asokoro. Now the association is expanding to other areas, also in Kobi, a village a few kilometres off from Asokoro.
Address: 52, Mamman Nasir crescent, off TY Danjuma street, Asokoro, Abuja.
Telephones: 0803 595 2373               0803 595 2373      // 070 33 11 9994 Emails: chabengowe@yahoo.com