Activity: To train women to acquire skills, to train women against violence, to design the website or blog for the association, to create the Facebook page for the association, to write projects, to help looking for grants, to assist poor women victims of violence (if you are a lawyer), to treat women victims of violence (if you come from the health system).
Time: For the skill acquisition sessions Saturdays 9am-4pm are preferred.
Comments: It is a group of women with branches in other parts of Nigeria. They are in Abuja since March 2010. They organize trainings for women, talks on violence against women and children, and activities to fight poverty. As future (desired) projects they want to give soft loans to women, to create a telephone number for women victims of violence and to build a centre to protect these women.
Address: Suit 201, Dankunchi Plaza, Gimbya Street, Area 2, Garki, Abuja. But they are currently meeting in Maitama.
Phone: 081 358 69 330
Email: bakohb@aol.com Web: www.n-wav.net
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Tulsi Chanrai Foundation
Activity: To design and start a new project, to help in other projects.
Comments: They work in the fields of primary health care, safe drinking water and eye care, in Abuja FCT and other regions. Acceptance of volunteers is not guaranteed.
Email: cbd_abuja@yahoo.com
Web: www.tcfnigeria.org
Comments: They work in the fields of primary health care, safe drinking water and eye care, in Abuja FCT and other regions. Acceptance of volunteers is not guaranteed.
Email: cbd_abuja@yahoo.com
Web: www.tcfnigeria.org
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Save the Falling Stars Foundation
Activity: To help organising events, to help cleaning orphanages and orphans, to train in health issues, to look for materials and funds.
Time: It depends on the activity. The office opens Monday to Friday 8am-6pm, but some activities don’t take place during this time.
Comments: They organise events every month, with the participation of children from ten orphanages. They also work with other orphans and street children.
Address: 2nd floor of Chelsea Group Building, 374e Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja.
Phones: 0703 566 2010 (Crystabel) // 0806 5544 007 (Seyi)
Email: krystabel2000@yahoo.com Web: www.savethefallingstars.com
Time: It depends on the activity. The office opens Monday to Friday 8am-6pm, but some activities don’t take place during this time.
Comments: They organise events every month, with the participation of children from ten orphanages. They also work with other orphans and street children.
Address: 2nd floor of Chelsea Group Building, 374e Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja.
Phones: 0703 566 2010 (Crystabel) // 0806 5544 007 (Seyi)
Email: krystabel2000@yahoo.com Web: www.savethefallingstars.com
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
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
Stop Cancer Foundation
Activity: To help in awareness campaigns and resource mobilization.
Comments: They are familiar with international volunteers.
Address: 92, Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja.
Phones: 0803 8600 244 // 0803 588 5592 // 0807 8166 555 // 0803 705 4099 // 0805 2256 762 // 09 782 11 36 // 0803 5965 739
Email: theophilusekpon@yahoo.com Web: www.stopcancerfoundation.org
Comments: They are familiar with international volunteers.
Address: 92, Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja.
Phones: 0803 8600 244 // 0803 588 5592 // 0807 8166 555 // 0803 705 4099 // 0805 2256 762 // 09 782 11 36 // 0803 5965 739
Email: theophilusekpon@yahoo.com Web: www.stopcancerfoundation.org
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Women’s and Children’s Right to Economic Development
Activity: To train staff in several issues, to write and present proposals, to organise activities and help in the existing ones, to work in the health sector if you are qualified.
Time: 9:30am-5pm
Comments: It is a very small organisation that has been working since 2004. They have their own centre where they organise trainings and consultations. They specially welcome international volunteers.
Address: plot 546a/565a, Jikwoyi Layout Phase 3, along Karish Road.
Contacts: 0808 3473 0382 aidsnep@yahoo.com
Time: 9:30am-5pm
Comments: It is a very small organisation that has been working since 2004. They have their own centre where they organise trainings and consultations. They specially welcome international volunteers.
Address: plot 546a/565a, Jikwoyi Layout Phase 3, along Karish Road.
Contacts: 0808 3473 0382 aidsnep@yahoo.com
Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria
Activity: go for advocacy visits if you are a good advocate; do research (preferably professionals of health and with research background); train staff on advocacy, health reform, etc.; train professionals of other institutions to manage the change in health policy; etc.
Time: The office is open from 8am to 5pm.
Comments: They advocate on health issues for private and public institutions, mainly on health policy. They do projects as about maternal health, malaria, immunization, etc.
Address: 60, Lobito Crescent, off Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent (opp. Visafone), Wuse 2, Abuja. Phones: 946 184 96 // 670 511
Emails: ahmedgana567@yahoo.com waylextelecom@yahoo.com
Time: The office is open from 8am to 5pm.
Comments: They advocate on health issues for private and public institutions, mainly on health policy. They do projects as about maternal health, malaria, immunization, etc.
Address: 60, Lobito Crescent, off Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent (opp. Visafone), Wuse 2, Abuja. Phones: 946 184 96 // 670 511
Emails: ahmedgana567@yahoo.com waylextelecom@yahoo.com
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
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
Anawim Home. Missionary Sisters of the Poorest of the Poor
Activity: To organise activities for children, young mothers, destitute, street children and youth or mentally ill; to take care of the patients and other people in the compound if you are a doctor.
Time: For the children 2pm-6:30pm.
Comments: There are around 18 sisters that work with orphans, mentally ill, around 16 young mothers (of unwanted pregnancy), destitute and street children and youth. All of them live in the compound except for the street children and youth. There are around 40 children of 0 to 15 years old, 20 mentally ill people and some destitute. There is also a skill acquisition centre for these groups.
Address: Opp. G.S.S. Dagiri, along Kaduna-Lokoja Express Rd. – Gwagwalada. P.O. Box 339
Phone: 0803 595 1455 0805 607 95 83
Email: oresoa@yahoo.com Web: www.anawim-ng.org
Time: For the children 2pm-6:30pm.
Comments: There are around 18 sisters that work with orphans, mentally ill, around 16 young mothers (of unwanted pregnancy), destitute and street children and youth. All of them live in the compound except for the street children and youth. There are around 40 children of 0 to 15 years old, 20 mentally ill people and some destitute. There is also a skill acquisition centre for these groups.
Address: Opp. G.S.S. Dagiri, along Kaduna-Lokoja Express Rd. – Gwagwalada. P.O. Box 339
Phone: 0803 595 1455 0805 607 95 83
Email: oresoa@yahoo.com Web: www.anawim-ng.org
Friday, July 23, 2010
Unity Orphanage
Activity: to organise activities with children, help in the clinic if you are a nurse or a doctor, train staff, etc.
Comments: It is a public orphanage. There is a big compound with several houses, opened in March 2010. There is space for more than 70 children of all ages, but it is not full yet. There is a classroom for nursery school and a clinic with two nurses.
Address: Gwako, Gwagwalada
Phones: 0803 786 9998 080 333 445 00 0703 19899 03
Comments: It is a public orphanage. There is a big compound with several houses, opened in March 2010. There is space for more than 70 children of all ages, but it is not full yet. There is a classroom for nursery school and a clinic with two nurses.
Address: Gwako, Gwagwalada
Phones: 0803 786 9998 080 333 445 00 0703 19899 03
Hope Worldwide Nigeria
Activity: To counsel in health facilities, to provide community services for Orphans and Vulnerable children in the communities, to help in the administrative office, to plan community outreach events, to participate in the annual “Great Hope Walk”.
Time: Usually 8.00am – 5.00pm, but it depends on the activity. Monthly activities are one possibility.
Requirements: Basic academic qualification, basic understanding of what volunteerism is about, heart to serve.
Comments: This NGO works with vulnerable groups in general. Some training is offered to volunteers, as well as guidance to assign her/him the most suitable activity.
Address: suite 41, Garki II Shopping Centre, opp. City Plaza, Garki, Abuja.
Phone: 080 2323 6553 (Ogundipe Akinwale Johnson) // 070 660 81 227
Email: akinwale.johnson@hwwnigeria.org preciousy2000@yahoo.com
Web: www.hopeww.org
Time: Usually 8.00am – 5.00pm, but it depends on the activity. Monthly activities are one possibility.
Requirements: Basic academic qualification, basic understanding of what volunteerism is about, heart to serve.
Comments: This NGO works with vulnerable groups in general. Some training is offered to volunteers, as well as guidance to assign her/him the most suitable activity.
Address: suite 41, Garki II Shopping Centre, opp. City Plaza, Garki, Abuja.
Phone: 080 2323 6553 (Ogundipe Akinwale Johnson) // 070 660 81 227
Email: akinwale.johnson@hwwnigeria.org preciousy2000@yahoo.com
Web: www.hopeww.org
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
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
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
CBM
Activity: To train staff if you are a professional of health, to help in special programmes as parties.
Time: Once in a month they do training for staff during the whole day.
Comments: It is an international NGO for development that works with people with disabilities. In Abuja they are implementing the project Community Based Rehabilitation, in different villages where there is a social worker to identify people with disabilities. They work with their families towards rehabilitation. They have professionals on mental health, special education and physiotherapy.
Address: Opp. G.S.S. Dagiri, along Kaduna-Lokoja Express Rd. – Gwagwalada. P.O. Box 339 (in the same compound as the Missionary Sisters of the Poorest of the Poor)
Contacts: 080 555 15 919 ogahlawrence@yahoo.com
Time: Once in a month they do training for staff during the whole day.
Comments: It is an international NGO for development that works with people with disabilities. In Abuja they are implementing the project Community Based Rehabilitation, in different villages where there is a social worker to identify people with disabilities. They work with their families towards rehabilitation. They have professionals on mental health, special education and physiotherapy.
Address: Opp. G.S.S. Dagiri, along Kaduna-Lokoja Express Rd. – Gwagwalada. P.O. Box 339 (in the same compound as the Missionary Sisters of the Poorest of the Poor)
Contacts: 080 555 15 919 ogahlawrence@yahoo.com
United Nations (UN)
Activity: It depends on the project, which can be related to different technical areas: disaster and crisis prevention, environment and climate change, delivery of basic services (primary healthcare and HIV/AIDS, strengthening of local governance), management, finance, etc.
Requirements: University degree in a technical field, minimum of two years of professional work, experience in the relevant area, not younger than 25 years, good command of one of the UN languages.
Time: minimum 3 months contract, full time.
Comments: The UN system in Nigeria comprises 14 agencies: FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNHCR, UNAIDS, UNIFEM, UNODC, WMO, WHO, ILO and IOM.
UNV is administered by the UNDP and contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by promoting volunteerism globally and recruiting UNV volunteers for numerous projects in different technical areas.
There are two categories of UNV volunteers: international and national.
A Roster of IUNV volunteers has been created and is managed at the UNV Headquarters in Bonn. You can visit the UNV web site and register to become an International UNV volunteer: www.unv.org
NUNV volunteers are identified by Country Office Teams and/or host agencies in the country of assignment which means that a demand should come from the host project or agency to the UNV Programme which will process the recruitment. UNV positions are advertised in local newspapers.
You can also practice, share your skills and volunteer on line:
http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/ (home-based and free of charge work).
The UNV Online Volunteering service is a platform that puts volunteers into contact with organizations around the world. In addition, online
volunteering gives you an opportunity to contribute to the development,
learn about other countries and contribute to sustainable development
staying at home.
Address: Plot 617/618, Diplomatic Zone, Central Area District.
Phone: 9 4616 274 Fax: 234-9-4618546/4618507
Emails: galina.chus@yahoo.fr
Web: www.unv.org (international volunteers)
www.ng.undp.org/unv/ (national volunteers)
www.onlinevolunteering.org/ (online volunteers)
Requirements: University degree in a technical field, minimum of two years of professional work, experience in the relevant area, not younger than 25 years, good command of one of the UN languages.
Time: minimum 3 months contract, full time.
Comments: The UN system in Nigeria comprises 14 agencies: FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNHCR, UNAIDS, UNIFEM, UNODC, WMO, WHO, ILO and IOM.
UNV is administered by the UNDP and contributes to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by promoting volunteerism globally and recruiting UNV volunteers for numerous projects in different technical areas.
There are two categories of UNV volunteers: international and national.
A Roster of IUNV volunteers has been created and is managed at the UNV Headquarters in Bonn. You can visit the UNV web site and register to become an International UNV volunteer: www.unv.org
NUNV volunteers are identified by Country Office Teams and/or host agencies in the country of assignment which means that a demand should come from the host project or agency to the UNV Programme which will process the recruitment. UNV positions are advertised in local newspapers.
You can also practice, share your skills and volunteer on line:
http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/ (home-based and free of charge work).
The UNV Online Volunteering service is a platform that puts volunteers into contact with organizations around the world. In addition, online
volunteering gives you an opportunity to contribute to the development,
learn about other countries and contribute to sustainable development
staying at home.
Address: Plot 617/618, Diplomatic Zone, Central Area District.
Phone: 9 4616 274 Fax: 234-9-4618546/4618507
Emails: galina.chus@yahoo.fr
Web: www.unv.org (international volunteers)
www.ng.undp.org/unv/ (national volunteers)
www.onlinevolunteering.org/ (online volunteers)
Family Care Foundation Eduvision
Activity: To work in the medical camps if you are a doctor or a nurse, to help organising activities, etc.
Comments: This branch of the international foundation has a house for volunteers from different countries. They work both in the social sector, with projects in Abuja FCT and the Northern Nigeria, and as a Christian organisation. The work is mostly done by the volunteers that are living in the house.
Address: 114, Ebitu Ukiwe str, Jabi.
Contacts: 0806 159 47 18 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0806 159 47 18 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0806 159 47 18 end_of_the_skype_highlighting // 0806 977 77 11 familycareis@gmail.com
Web: www.familycare.org/network/f30.htm
Comments: This branch of the international foundation has a house for volunteers from different countries. They work both in the social sector, with projects in Abuja FCT and the Northern Nigeria, and as a Christian organisation. The work is mostly done by the volunteers that are living in the house.
Address: 114, Ebitu Ukiwe str, Jabi.
Contacts: 0806 159 47 18 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0806 159 47 18 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 0806 159 47 18 end_of_the_skype_highlighting // 0806 977 77 11 familycareis@gmail.com
Web: www.familycare.org/network/f30.htm
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