Empowering women and young girls with auto mechanic skills to create wealth as a source of self sustainable livelihood
Investing in the female gender of Nigeria.
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Year the initative began (yyyy)
2004
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Posicionamiento de tu iniciativa en el diagrama del mosaico
Which of these barriers is the primary focus of your work?
Vulnerability of targeted populations
Which of the principles is the primary focus of your work?
Increase community resilience
If you believe some other barrier or principle should be included in the mosaic, please describe it and how it would affect the positioning of your initiative in the mosaic
inadequate response and action(my initiative right now has a land that would be paid for with 22 million naira and up to date only 2 million naira have be paid, advocacies have been paid to Government to give a rebate but to no sucess
invisbility of the problem, (Girls' lives have changed a lot over time. In some countries, girls used to have few rights and now they have many
cultural acceptance(Often the situation depends on the girl's social class; princesses usually have more rights than peasants, and wealthy girls are much more likely to get an education. Or girls may officially have rights, but still face sexism or death. In China, hundreds of girl babies are still abandoned or killed because their culture prefers males. But there have always been times when an inspiring woman shines, no matter what her culture expects.
Nombre de tu proyecto
Empowering women and young girls with auto mechanic skills to create wealth as a source of self sustainable livelihood
Describe Your Idea
Investing in the female gender of Nigeria.
Innovación
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
Investing in the female gender of Nigeria.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field?
we mobilize broad spectrum of the poor and vulnerable people, specifically women and young girls in hard to reach communities, initiate, design and implement motor mechanic programmes, that results in sustainable improvement in their well-being as well as facilitates their reintegration into the mainstream society. by rehabilitating, empowering and training them with auto mechanic skills to create wealth. they are called female mechanic
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
• Conduct ongoing social research that profile poverty and underlying socio-cultural and political circumstances that engenders poverty in specific social settings, the people’s perception of poverty, disseminates and document the findings.
• Promote creativity and creative genius among young people by working with school authority, teachers and other stakeholders to introduce auto engineering career talk and auto mechanic competition among secondary schools as a solution to the rising youth unemployment in Nigeria and Africa at large.
• Empower the poor and vulnerable people with vocational skills training in auto mechanic, motorbike, generator, air conditioning, refrigeration repair and maintenance technology and motor panel work in a long-term mentorship that ensures lasting impact.
How do you plan to grow your innovation?
o Ensure that the trainees become worthy ambassadors of the initiative by cultivating the ideologies of the initiative in others (i.e. Trainees become trainers
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them?
yes we do have existing partnerships, we do create this partners by organising networking events, send introductory letters, to corporate and individual companies, write proposals join networks of NGO, this process have help the initiative to be publicized and showcased.
Impacto
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact.
To help stop prostitution and other vices and establish a respectable source of revenue for young women and girls
What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact?
? Lack of parental support.
? Lack of modern tools /technology.
? Lack of secretarial equipments.
? Lack of funds.
? Shop demolition.
? Instability of government policy.
? Political instability
How many people have you served or plan to serve?
• 7 girls trained, graduated,March 17th 2006
• 1 refugee boy trained, graduated March 17th 2006
• Presently, there are 64 new trainees at the workshop receiving mechanical training
• 50 trainees are being sponsored by MTN foundation. They have graduated from the first here to their second year( which include their industrial training in PAN Automobile, Nigeria, where they are practically taught new technology of can dismantling and assembly
we plan toDuplicate the programme within other states. One state at a time but eventually all 36 states across Nigeria. 36,000 ladies.an to
Directly
the target group is women and young girls
Indirectly
the extended families of the target group
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation?
Carryout ongoing psychosocial, mental health counseling and mentorship that encourage young women and girls to adopt positive attitude and approach to life, avoid antisocial behavior and live healthy and prolong life.
When women are empowered to be self confident and financially independent they would stand up to their right and be involved in the making legislation of their society. There is growing awareness that females constitute more than half of the world’s and as such meaningful advancement cannot take place in its entirety, if women are grossly under represented.
Is there a policy intervention element to your innovation?
yes, an established training curriculum and MOU between trainees and partners
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation?
YOUNG GIRLS AND WOMEN(ages 14 - 35)
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Sostenibilidad
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
• Organizing fundraising activities
• Create public awareness
• Sustain high visibility for the initiative
• Engender stakeholders’ interest\participation
• Cultivate public goodwill and empathy for the initiative
• Create lasting impression for the initiative
BUT ESSENTIALLY WRITE PROPOSALS TO SEEK FOR FUNDING
If known, provide information on your finances and organization
• MTN FOUNDATION, NIGERIA, Major funding partner, year 1-2006-2007(N11,000,000.00) and year two-2007 to 2008 (N17,034,000.00)
• Former First Lady of Lagos State Chief Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu. (Moral and Financial).
• Former Ministry of Women Affairs, Lagos State (Moral support, Recognition, commendation)
• Daisy Dajuma
• WOTCLEF, Abuja (Ensured Federal government support and recognition)
• Peugeot Automobile Nigeria Limited, (PAN) Kaduna (Certified Training) The girls are usually sent to the plat to train for one month
• Motor Plus Workshops (Partner in training and employment)
• Transmission by Lucille, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Support & training partnership)
• Carlbury Garage, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (donation of tools, training on diagnosing in motor vehicles)
• Global fund for women USA( 2006-2007) $6,000.00
• Rotary club TIN Can Apapa, Nigeria( N100,000.00) and training one girl for 3years(N365,000.00)
• CHEVRON, (Training partner, Employment and Financial)
• Stephanie Balikos( donation of training tools and office equipments )
• Commissioner of Police Lagos state, (moral and security support)
• Sara Hindle, Portsmouth, UK (fundraising and volunteer) capacity building and donation of office equipments
• Mr. Henry Omoragbon (BOT), donation of office furniture
• Free Health Insurance programme from the Netherlands Government through Lagoon Hospital in collaboration with HYGEIA, “a health maintenance organization” nominated the Lady Mechanic Initiative for the community health insurance plan for all her trainees and families at no cost yearly.
What is the potential demand for your innovation?
The potential demand for the innovation is very high in that in Africa, there has never been such an idea/inspiration that is turning this part of Africa we are in and the surrounding African countries into networking countries/cities.And i foresee that in five years from now the whole of Africa will be affected positively with this innovation.
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability?
? Unemployment
? Unavailability of infrastructures (schools, hospitals, road, water, electricity, e.t.c)
? Lack of access to physical assets such as land and capital
? Unstable governance
? Infringement of fundamental rights
La historia
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story.
God spoke to me through a series of childhood dreams and told me that i should become a mechanic. With no other mechanics in the family, my father initially scoffed at the idea, until he traveled to the US in the 1980s and saw women working in positions considered "men only" in Nigeria, back in Nigeria, he gave me his full support, but my mother was not in support, because she was afraid of the physical challenges associated with the profession. Nevertheless, i forged ahead with my dream at the age of Fourteen years, although my first "garage" was a patch of land covered with cardboard for shade, which was demolished by authority, but that did not deter me, today I am a brewing success. i has always aimed high. An avid reader of self-help books, I encourage my girls to think big – and they do.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material
AKASandra Aguebor- Robert Kokoma, native of Benin city, Edo state, Nigeria born in the 70s by late Mr. &Mrs. R.A Aguebor, attended Ivbiotor Primary School, St Maria Goretti Grammar School in Benin,Benin Technical College for further technical skills and then Auchi Polythenic, all in Edo state, had a degree from The GOETHE INSTITUTE, a German school based in Lagos State and International Relations (Inview). Secured 1ST employment with Bendel Transport Service(Edo Line),Benin City, as officer in charge of maintenance and repairs in the workshop for 3years, and later with Nigeria Railway Corporation, and NOW CEO/FOUNDER,LADY MECHANIC INITIAIVE and CEO SANDEX CAR CARE, (specialist in maintenance, servicing of mostly used cars and sales of spare parts for commonly used cars), AKA THE LADY MECHANIC
Emphasis of Work
To prevent the fundamental human rights of women in our society
To protect Violence against women
Use the initiative as a weapon of change in the mechanic profession (i.e. environmental, health and training matters
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