I am a changemaker through email sent to me in my official mail box by my Deputy Country Project Manager. I am a change maker by attitude through observation of societal problems that are prevalent in my society and critically try to know why such problems emerge, where they are emerging from, how they emerge, and articulate empirical measures in obtaining information about the identified societal problems for better understanding of the nature of the problem and try to proffer solution to them thereby bringing about change in the society.
I have also been involved in an organization (EngenderHealth) that brings quality health care services to women with vesico vaginal fistula and or recto vaginal fistula in Nigeria, increase access to family planning, Prevention activities through community mobilization, capacity building to deliver quality Family Planning and repair of women with vesico vaginal fistula or recto vaginal fistula, Reintegration opportunities for repaired patients, and use of data for decision making in order to improve quality health care delivery to the communities where we operate.
By this means, we have repaired women with these conditions (VVF/RVF) and brought smiles to their faces, that of their families, and their communities at large.
MATERNAL HEALTH, POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT.
REINTEGRATION OF WOMEN WITH VESICO VAGINAL FISTULA AND RECTO VAGINAL FISTULA IN NORTHWESTERN NIGERIA.
Its known that most women with Vesico Vaginal Fistula and Recto Vaginal Fistula are from poor agrian family setting. Before now, the reintegration of women who undergo fistula repair involves rehabilitating them in a way of teaching them a trade or a skill that could enhance their source of income without necessarily knowing their socioeconomic background such that those who actively engage in Agriculture picks up a trade and by virtue of that suspends the activities they were used to or which used to contribute to food security of the family and the nation as a whole. Reintegration of the women to their societies and families through identification of their socioeconomic profile that they are used to so that they can have an improved way of doing this same activities they are used to rather than just teaching them how to knit, tailoring, and weaving hand fans that may not be sustained after they leave the facility or when they are healed of their conditions.
therefore, I passionately want to see that families of VVF/RVF patients do not lose their family members contribution to food security by reason of a new trade they have learnt but to acquire improved way of doing the same economic activity they are used
I hold a B.Sc Degree in Geography, and an M.Sc in Population and Manpower Planning both from the University of Jos, Nigeria.
I am a Data Officer for (USAID)AQUIRE Fistula Care Project being implemented by EngenderHealth Nigeria office. Most of my roles and responsibilities had to do with:
* Collection of data from facility and transmitting it to the M & E Advisor after validating it.
* Participate in research activities that is embarked on by the organization.
* Collaborate with Program Staff to document activity reports through a logical filling system.
* Track events and follow up on all activities done by the organization.
But prior to this time, I had worked as a Research Assistant on a Climate Change Project handled by the Center for Environment and Hazards Research in the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Jos. I had worked as a Data Manager for SmithKline on a Malarial Drug Trial Research on infants and children under the Department of Peadiatrics Jos University Teaching Hospital Jos, worked with Center for Children in Crisis, Jos,and have consulted for Management Sciences for Health(LMS) as an M & E Coordinator on Mobile HCT activities, as well as volunteered at HALTS AIDS group in Jos on community HIV AIDS Counseling and Testing. I had also facilitated a training of Community Volunteers on DOTS (Direct Oral Therapy) in the treatment of Tuberculosis for CHAN (Christian Health Association of Nigeria).
