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Nigerian IT Regulator invites Fantsuam to stakeholders meeting

Submitted by Frances on 4 October 2013 - 10:00pm
John writes from Fantsuam: The new acting Director General of the Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr Ashiru Daura, hosted a meeting of key stakeholders of the IT industry. Fantsuam Foundation was invited and had the opportunity to meet with the major players in the Nigerian IT industry: Nigerian private sector players such as the Computer Professionals of Nigeria, The Business People (TBP), top media representatives and multinationals like Microsoft, Huawei, Intel and MainOne. Fantsuam Foundation was the only NGO in attendance at this national event. This point was brought home to the audience by the CEO of The...

Vacancy- are you the doctor for us at Fantsuam?

Submitted by Frances on 9 September 2013 - 9:19pm
John appeals for a doctor to undertake training following Dr Awojobi's visit to Fantsuam: Fantsuam Foundation ( www.fantsuam.org ) is committed to empowering community members, particularly women, to find employment and income to meet the needs of themselves and their families. We work in 50 communities across 7 Local Government areas in Kaduna State, and over 5,000 individuals benefit from Fantsuam’s services every year. We estimate that over 200,000 people have benefited either directly or indirectly from Fantsuam Foundation’s activities since it was established in BayanLoco in 2001. Fantsuam Rural Health Centre The Fantsuam Rural Health Centre, set up in...

Dr Awojobi visits Fantsuam Foundation

Submitted by Frances on 7 September 2013 - 3:38pm
John has sent this report from Fantsuam Foundation in Nigeria: Follow up to training of Fatsuam staff in Eruwa Nigeria’s foremost rural surgeon, Dr. Oluyombo Awojobi, founder and CEO of the Awojobi Clinic Eruwa (ACE), came on a 3-day visit to Fantsuam Foundation. This followed the placement of two Fantsuam staff at his clinic where he took them through his appropriate health technology programs. And what was the reason for his visit to Fantsuam Foundation? In his words “I should endeavor to visit you in the next one month before the enthusiasm of the duo wanes”. Surgery in the new...

Appropriate technology training in Eruwa

Submitted by Frances on 3 September 2013 - 6:13pm
John Dada writes: Training with a world renowned rural surgeon A team of two staff from Fantsuam Foundation undertook a two-week training at Awojobi Clinic, Eruwa (ACE). The team was full of admiration for the personal tutelage they received from world-renowned rural surgeon, Dr. Oluyombo Awojobi, the founder of ACE, and his team of dedicated staff. During their stay, the Fantsuam team had the rare privilege of working closely with Dr. Awojobi on his ward rounds, in the operating theatre, medical laboratories and in his biomedical engineering workshop. Cheap and simple solutions At ACE, the Fantsuam Foundation team had ample...

First hoist for patients at Fantsuam

Submitted by Frances on 1 September 2013 - 8:47pm
John Dada writes from Fantsuam: African Palliative Care funds a manual hoist for Fantsuam's clients Among its many services Fantsuam Foundation offers home-based care to clients, many of whom require professional moving and handling skills. The need for a manual hoist became pressing for the Fantsuam home-based care teams as the population of its older clients increased and with greater numbers of people physically disabled by road traffic accidents, especially those involving the ubiquitous motor cycle taxis (Okada). The cost of such equipment was clearly beyond Fantsuam Foundation and its purchase has been made possible through the support of the...

Summer School in Kadarko

Submitted by Frances on 18 August 2013 - 8:10pm
The long summer holiday John writes: There has been much discussion in the UK about children forgetting what they have learned during the long summer holidays. But the challenges to learning faced by children in Nigeria are even greater due to the larger class sizes and few resources in many schools. Children in Kadarko have never had the opportunity of being kept busy during the long vacation from July to September. Unfortunately, there is not enough farm work or harvest at this time, so it can be boring for children. The choice to go back to school! A group of...

Flip-flops -an appropriate technology

Submitted by Frances on 10 August 2013 - 10:05pm
Staff training in appropriate technology John gave me great news the other day that two Fantsuam Foundation staff would be going to Oyo State in the south west of Nigeria to receive training in the use and development of appropriate technology to help people with health issues and disabilities. John told me yesterday that the staff have begun the training and will be spending a further 10 days in Ibadan before they return with their newly acquired knowledge. John will let us know once his staff return and they have begun to think how they will use this knowledge in...

Palliative Care Gets a Boost at Fantsuam Clinic

Submitted by Frances on 1 August 2013 - 6:50pm
The Fantsuam Health Centre has been providing basic palliative care within its limits and resources. In our HIV/AIDS program we have a Home-based care component that also serves older citizens who are housebound. The Kafanchan General Hospital is overwhelmed with the daily casualties of road traffic accidents, mostly caused by motor cycle taxis called okada. Some of these people end up with severe disabilities that the hospital is unable to support, and their care devolves on the victims’ families. At the moment, Fantsuam supports patients with severe orthopedic injuries, a quadriplegia and a stoma case. In November 2012, Fantsuam Foundation...

Beekeepers Bill Of Rights, Nigeria

Submitted by Frances on 25 July 2013 - 2:40pm
Whats Good For Bees and Beekeepers is Good For Nigerian Agriculture A beekeepers stakeholder forum was held on on 19 th June, 2013 with support from Winrock International www.winrock.org . This followed on the heels of the first National Beekeeping Conference was held on May 6-8, 2013, http://www.cebrad.com/first-national-beekeeping-conference-communiqué . The theme for the Stakeholders Forum was “Healthy Bees, Healthy environment, Healthy Human”. In recognition of the interconnectedness of beekeeping to sustainable human development, Winrock had invited a cross-section of stakeholders, including law enforcement agents, regulators, fire service, funding agencies, pastoralists, etc and also commissioned a research on the “Impacts of...

Grandmothers' voices remembered in Seoul

Submitted by Frances on 29 June 2013 - 11:06pm
John Dada attends conference on ageing in Seoul Last week John Dada, Director of Fantsuam Foundation wrote from Seoul, “The African Research for Ageing (AFRAN) and HelpAge International, to which Fantsuam is affiliated, has supported my attendance at the 20th IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics in Seoul, Korea." Older people world wide to be treated with dignity and respect. "It has been heart warming to see the range of professionals and organisations who are keen to ensure that older people all over the world are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. What Fantsuam takes home from...

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