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This week's news in brief

Submitted by nikki on 28 March 2012 - 10:41pm
The topics covered in this week’s UK-Nigeria meeting ranged from solar power to maize with a bit of microfinance and minority languages thrown in for good measure! Following on from last week’s update about the visit from the Minnesota team (MRES) John Dada was able to give us the exciting news that some of the participants attending the solar workshop decided they would start a Kafanchan Solar Club, KSC. John will be helping the temporary officials of the KSC (Naomi ,Gabriel ) together with Kasang to send Dadamac UK a few sentences about and photos of the newly formed club...

Solar at Fantsuam!

Submitted by nikki on 26 March 2012 - 11:36pm
John Dada was unable to attend this week’s UK-Nigeria meeting in person ...but he had an excellent excuse! John was busy hosting a much anticipated visit from the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society (MRES) team who are collaborating with Fantsuam Foundation for their first on the ground “Light Up Africa Project”. Our sister organisation, Fantsuam Foundation is an excellent choice of in-country partner for this project as they can draw upon John’s expertise and enthusiasm for solar power as he has been actively trying to implement local solar projects for many years. In fact Fantsuam’s power has been provided by a...

Maths and ICT clubs for Kaduna State

Submitted by nikki on 14 March 2012 - 11:55am
John Dada , CEO Fantsuam Foundation , shared with The Dadamac team his vision and plans for Maths and ICT clubs across Kaduna state. John has tremendous experience of delivering ICT and Integrated educational programmes to his local rural community in Kafanchan,Nigeria "The number of people who have poor numeracy skills far exceeds the equivalent figure for poor literacy. School-leavers who have failed to master basic maths are more likely to end up jobless, in prison or pregnant at a young age. Poor numeracy is the hidden problem that affects the Nigerian economy and ruins individuals’ chances in life. Poor...

Fantsuam's News!

Submitted by nikki on 11 March 2012 - 10:52pm
Wednesday’s UK-Nigeria meeting proved as varied as ever. John Dada explained that Fantsuam Foundation’s Community Health Centres projects, called PATH2 will take off this month as soon as FF have been able negotiate the contributions to FF's administrative costs. John also updated about NEWSAN, the Network for Water and Sanitation, Nigeria. FF is a zonal head quarters and Emma with Ayuba will be attending an advocacy training next week in Abuja. John went on to inform us that It is being hosted by WaterAid to assist Community Based Organisations (CBOs) to negotiate effectively with Government on implementation of Water Policies...

Future Planning at Fantsuam

Submitted by nikki on 5 March 2012 - 12:59pm
This week’s UK-Nigeria meeting was a chance for Emmanuel Waje (Emma), to give us an update about the clinic at Fantsuam . Emma explained that he would be leaving the following day to go to the American Embassy in Abuja in order to collect the first 50% of the grant which will allow a clinic extension to be built. He explained that there was an urgent need for a new delivery room. It is believed by the Fantsuam staff that the old hut discourages pregnant mothers from patronizing the clinic. The Clinic currently has four staff who work shifts on...

Future Planning at Fantsuam

Submitted by nikki on 5 March 2012 - 12:59pm
This week’s UK-Nigeria meeting was a chance for Emmanuel Waje (Emma), to give us an update about the clinic at Fantsuam . Emma explained that he would be leaving the following day to go to the American Embassy in Abuja in order to collect the first 50% of the grant which will allow a clinic extension to be built. He explained that there was an urgent need for a new delivery room. It is believed by the Fantsuam staff that the old hut discourages pregnant mothers from patronizing the clinic. The Clinic currently has four staff who work shifts on...

The PATH ahead!

Submitted by nikki on 26 February 2012 - 10:36pm
This week’s UK-Nigeria meeting saw John Dada inform us that four Fantsuam staff were in Kaduna, attending training for PATH. This followed the indication from the Kaduna State Government the previous week that it was willing to take over the PATHS programme. This suggestion was made at a meeting attended by Comfort. However, it must be said that their readiness for such a task has yet to be proved. John went on to explain Fantsuam Foundation’s ongoing bandwidth challenges. The new Government-owned service provider is not meeting their needs, but they can no longer afford the US-based provider. This has...

A week's news in brief

Submitted by nikki on 19 February 2012 - 8:47pm
During this week’s UK-Nigeria meeting we covered a variety of topics ranging from waste plastic recycling to water and sanitation and e-learning. Below are the summaries of these varied discussions! John Dada informed us that the NEWSAN steering committee meeting went well and “ Fantsuam Foundation is now headquarters for six states advocacy activities.” John went on to explain that: “ The advocacy is to improve citizens voice in budgetary and project implementation processes”. Diagnostic Laboratory: Michigan State Uni sent some more equipments for Zipak Lab. The plan is that the laboratory will become operational by March. Comic Relief and...

Congratulations Fantsuam!

Submitted by nikki on 9 February 2012 - 11:21pm
Over the last few months, and during our weekly UK-Nigeria meeting, John Dada has been informing the UK about his on-going dealings with the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society (MRES). We were therefore delighted to hear that following on from their recent visit to Fantsuam Foundation a sloar project for Kafanchan Hospital has been agreed between the two organisations. The full story can be seen on the MRES website .

Food shortages and the vulnerable

Submitted by nikki on 29 January 2012 - 11:07pm
These were the sobering words of John Dada and summed up this week’s UK-Nigeria online meeting: “This month we must focus on stocking up grains, be ready to respond to alerts on elderly and children who may be at risk of abuse” The words followed on from last week’s discussion when we learned of Fantsuam Foundation ’s rescue of an elderly mama who had been beaten and accused of witchcraft by her family and of the Rumbu (food bank) programme. John explained that: “The famine is most likely to hit Kafanchan and Kaduna state as a whole since many could...

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