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Care of the Elderly in Rural Nigeria

During this week's UK-Nigeria meeting John Dada forwarded his and Teresa Tafida's June 2014 report about Care of the Elderly in rural Nigeria. As a health care professional working in the elderly in the UK with it's own challenges, I feel that never before has it been so important to link the local and the global expertise, knowlege and resources for the benefit of the elderly - no matter where in the world they reside. The existence of the internet has provided us all with a real opportunity to help enable us to achieve this. Care of the Elderly: Experience...

Challenges, Opportunities & Innovation

An exciting new Collaboration between GlobelNet21, Impact Hub Westminster and Dadamac is taking place on Monday 25th November here in the UK and the best bit of all is that John Dada will be joining us with two of his many hats on: namely that of Founder and CEO of Fantsuam and of Director of Dadamac. To join us at Hub Westminster you can register either via Globalnet21 meetuups or via Eventbrite

World Health Day at Fantsuam, Nigeria

The following report is written by their Founder/Director John Dada . The elderly care program of Fantsuam Foundation , known as KAKAS (grandmothers) was initiated about 6 years ago to support grandmothers who were taking care of their orphaned grandchildren. The service now supports 126 grandmothers with a monthly stipend, free medical treatment, nutritional care and home-based care. On April 07th 2013, 48 Kakas met at Fantsuam Foundation farm to mark the World Health Day. The theme of Hypertension was particularly relevant for the group: the host community for this service records and average of a new stroke every three...

Adieu for now!

After more than four wonderful years involved with Dadamac, I’m sorry to announce that I will be putting my weekly blogs on hold. Of course, the weekly UK-Nigeria meetings will continue, but I’m afraid I won’t have time to file my regular reports and round-ups since I must now turn my attentions to a new social enterprise, Collage Network . This project, which helps people in the UK utilise their skills to find and create employment, is in its embryonic stages and will entail a lot of effort to get fully off the ground. Please know that Dadamac and Fantsuam...

Bossan's Story

CAR ACCIDENT I WITNESS Originally uploaded by Dadamac Community Our weekly UK - Nigeria meetings are never ‘routine’ and I invariably find them a humbling reality check. I also often find it frustrating to hear of John’s inspiring efforts in valiantly trying to support members of his impoverished host community, since I believe there are individuals and organisations who - were they aware of his fine track record of delivery and the dire needs he is addressing - would be only too happy to help. This week was no exception. John told us about Bossan, a 30-year-old old quadriplegic. Bossan...

Reflections on visit to Kafanchan

Frances, from the Fantsuam Foundation Leeds office, has just returned from a visit to Nigeria and has generously agreed to sharing her reflections of her trip with us. "The weather was lovely. Much cooler than I thought it would be but we did have torrential thunder storms as well. The rain on the metal roof of the main house was deafening. I just wished it would stop! The doorway to the bathroom in the big mud hut started to collapse as the rain soaked through the walls. Fortunately we had decided to decamp to the house next door in time...

Kazanka & women entrepreneurs

It is fitting that last week here in Croydon was Enterprise week and this week is Global enterprise week as during the last UK-Nigeria meeting we were all reminded how Fantsuam Foundation grew in response to the needs of the local women traders. Frances who has been a UK based supporter of Fantsuam has just returned from vsiting John Dada and the team and shared with us her abbreviated history which tells how microfinance arrived at Fantsuam. Fantsuam Foundation: An Abbreviated History by Frances The very early beginnings: John Dada first came to Kafanchan in 1972 to work in a...

A typical UK - Nigeria Meeting

This week I thought that I would give an insight into the 'nuts and bolts' of our weekly meetings. Below is an example of a typical agenda which we use for these meetings. It demonstrates the breadth and depth of what we cover in an hour. The photo was sent in by Fola the Manager of the Dadamac Outpost in Ago-Are. Agenda THURSDAY UK-Nigeria Meeting Skype Typed meeting 10:00-11:00 1. Meet and Greet: 2. Fantsuam Foundation: General news and catch up DEVTECH and review of project and next steps Feedback from Linus now he is back in Nigeria? FF &...

Looking forward

The topics covered during this week’s hour long UK-Nigeria skype meeting ranged from recycling waste plastic water sachet to the Kafanchan market- Pay-As-You-Use toilets. As the end of this year approaches, John Dada is already keen to look at Fantsuam Foundation’s objectives for 2013. Some time was spent discussing how best to move forward with the development of Fantsuam Foundation’s website and some suggestions were made together with the decision to look into the costs involved. On the subject of the recycling plastic project Pamela Mclean reported that she had met Linus ( the FF engineer seconded to the UK)...

Plastic recycling & women entrepreneurs

This week's UK -Nigeria meeting centered around the current recycling waste plastic project. Fantsuam's engineer, Linus, had recently met the Dadamac UK Team in London and had explained the current situation and shared his hopes for the project on his return to Nigeria on the 20th October. John Dada of Fantsam Foundation and Ron Denis of DEVTECH are currently finalising the last stages of this phase of this project funded by Comic Relief. The main issue that this project hopes to address is to find a way to recycle the plastic water sachets which are so problematic in the region...

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