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If you are a medical doctor, registered with the Medical and Dental Council (MDC), and are seeking career fulfillment through service in poorly resourced rural communities - here is a unique opportunity for you. The organisation you'll work with Fantsuam Foundation is committed to empowering community members, particularly women, to find means of employment and income to meet their own development needs. We are working 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...

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...

This is my "homework" following a Skype chat (which means that as long as it answers Ben's questions, and is framed by our Skype chat, I won't try to give additional explanations). For more context see Response to "A Theory of Community Formation" Patterns Amongst other things we touched on patterns. If there is a pattern behind this, it is the pattern of trying to capture relevant elements from chaotic emergent systems, so they can become tagged, categorised, structured, and coherent. We need to do this more effectively in order to accelerate collaborations and information sharing. Sharing knowledge We need...

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...

Today I am with my friend Chief Gbade Adejumo from Okeho, in Oke-Ogun, Oyo State, Nigeria. He is visiting the UK and we are taking the opportunity to catch up and to see how we can collaborate in the future. Ostradef Gbade has been telling me about Okeho Strategic Development Foundation (Ostradef). It was founded in 2010, by a group of Okeho indigens who are concerned about the low level of development of the town and want to do something about it. Looking forward Gbade and I are looking at how Dadamac and Ostradef can work together in future. This...