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Tables for the KRC Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community Wednesday's weekly online meeting was a timely and informative affair this week. The Nigerian team were able to introduce Ladi, the newly appointed Knowledge Resource Centre officer to the UK team. Kelechi, the Director of the Fantsuam Academy is currently responsible for her orientation and training and appears to be doing a formidable job and left with Ladi after the meeting to continue with her induction. Much of the hour was spent learning more about the planned UN Sickle Cell awareness day. The UK shared with the team the press release...

Meeting of Sickle Cell Disease Members Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community SICKLE Cell Disease is an agonising blood condition which affects one in every four West Africans. While it is generally controlled in the western world, a lack of medication and funding in Africa means that victims will regularly die.

Students at the Community Communication Center Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community The Community Communication Centre (CCC) at Fantsuam Foundation has once again come in for some richly-deserved recognition. The centre was funded by the Nigerian Government and, at the end of May, was the subject of an inspection by visitors from the Nigerian Communications Commission (the country's regulator of Communications). On their previous visit, the inspectors had hailed the CCC as "a Flagship. This time, an external technical expert was sent to conduct an objective assessment of the CCC. The inspector said he had visited 27 such centres and that...

John Dada and his team were forced to step into the breach once again this week as Fantsuam Foundation awaited the start of the much-anticipated USAID nutrition programme. They intervened to help ten local street children whose plight was revealed at Wednesday's UK-Nigeria online meeting. It signalled a FF pilot project targeting the Muslim children who rely on begging at market. (This initiative may in time be merged with Fantsuam's Orphans and Vulnerable Children's programme but it seems more important to respond to the need now and sort out the logistics later). John explained to the UK team that the...

JAWS and Fantsuam Academy Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community By Kelechi Michaels for Fantsuam Foundation KAFANCHAN, Nigeria, 13 May 2010 In 2009, APC member Fantsuam Foundation took on the training of 583 people in ICT, 221 of which were women, and one who was physically handicapped in their academy. While the training was successful and inclusive, one group who could greatly benefit from such training was absent: people who cannot see. However this will change in 2010 as Fantsuam introduces JAWS (Job Access With Speech screen reader application) training to its curriculum making its Basic computer skills and Advanced computer...