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Storytelling

We collect and compose authentic, powerful stories that highlight and contextualize the challenges of the marginalized communities across Africa.

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Media Advocacy

We help bring attention to people living in underserved communities across the African continent and advocate for change that will affect their life positively.

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Organization Empowerment

We help individuals & organizations to conceive agendas for change, generate action plans for sustainable solutions, build coalitions, and gain the skills and tools they need to envision and implement sustainable solutions to their most frustrating problems.

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Media Law Reform

We work for transparent and accountable media policy and regulatory frameworks by safeguarding the principles of independent and pluralistic media and freedom of expression online.

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Education

We work with children and families in the marginalized communities, providing them with an environment that helps them learn and mainstream into schools and livelihood opportunities.

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OUR REACH

These are ways we harness new media for sustainable change.

International Collaboration

We actively seek out individual NGOs, platforms and networks involved in the issue being addressed; ally with relevant international networks; and work bilaterally when appropriate. MFCC maintains both temporary and ongoing international alliances.

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Foreign Policy

We strengthen foreign reporting by facilitating transnational research, by educating journalists and by bringing together media workers with differing perspectives into a conversation about themselves and the world.

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Capacity Building

With all of our programs we aim to build capacity in individuals and community-based organizations. We empower NGOs, Changemakers around the world.

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Women Empowerment

We give voice, power, and hardship relief to those women by ensuring they are fully empowered, know their rights, heard and supported in participating meaningfully in decisions that concerns their health and wellbeing.

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Partnership

We actively seek and build partnerships with like minded NGOs for various projects. We consistently improve our social and environmental performance and find new opportunities through partnerships with other organizations.

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OUR PUBLICATIONS

#WaterPoverty in Lai Papa Community in Oyo state, Nigeria

03 Jun

#WaterPoverty in Lai Papa Community in Oyo state, Nigeria

Here is a story of a community in Saki East of Oyo state with no source of Clean #Water. Lai Papa, like many other Nigerian communities, A stream is the only source of water– drinking, bathing, laundry. Diseases emanating from using unclean water cannot be treated because they lack health care facilities hence their existence…

MFCC partners with Swedish Embassy to commemorate World Press Freedom Day

05 May

MFCC partners with Swedish Embassy to commemorate World Press Freedom Day

To celebrate 2020 World Press Freedom day, Media For Community Change partnered with the Embassy of Sweden in Nigeria to host a webinar. The day is marked every May 3. This year’s event was organized to celebrate principles of press freedom and discuss the situation for journalists and media workers in Nigeria, concentrating on 2020’s…

COVID-19: How hunger, death and threat of community infections haunt IDP camps

24 Apr

COVID-19: How hunger, death and threat of community infections haunt IDP camps

MFCC – “I left the camp since morning. We (children) went to pluck cashew nuts from the bush. We roast and eat it because there is no other food. I go every day”. Those were the words of Mary Nuhu, 14, living in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp at Durumi, Area 1, Abuja, Nigeria’s…

SuS Pads project what is this initiative about?

02 Mar

SuS Pads project what is this initiative about?

Menstruation is a natural biological process that is meant to dignify women and girls around the world. Unfortunately, it is otherwise in many parts of the world subject of ridicule, surrounded by myths and in rare actually cases, the cause of death of adolescent girls. Some see it as an unclean act that should be…

COP25: “We are not here to point fingers” – Seyifunmi Adebote.

07 Dec

COP25: “We are not here to point fingers” – Seyifunmi Adebote.

In 2000, flood in Mozambique was responsible for 800 deaths, 329,000 displaced people and almost 2 million people affected in all. Between July 2011 and 2012, the entire East Africa region suffered a severe drought, said to be “the worst drought in 60 years.” Across the Lake Chad region, the drying up of the water…

International Volunteer Day – What To Know

05 Dec

International Volunteer Day – What To Know

By Demola Oriyomi Ademola A volunteer is someone who contributes time, effort and talent to meet a need or further a mission, without going on the payroll. Volunteering activities are of different types. It could be micro-volunteering, online volunteering, and skills-based volunteering. People choose to volunteer for different reasons. For some, it is an opportunity…

World AIDS day: Nigeria and Hopeful Projections

02 Dec

World AIDS day: Nigeria and Hopeful Projections

By Titilope Fadare The World AIDS Day is an annual global event celebrated every December 1 by government organizations, NGOs, civil society groups and other health officials since 1988. The aim is to create increased awareness of HIV/AIDS and issues around its treatment and prevention etc. The theme for this year is COMMUNITIES MAKE THE…

Reusable Sanitary Pads: One of The Remedies for Alleviating Period Poverty in Nigeria

29 Nov

Reusable Sanitary Pads: One of The Remedies for Alleviating Period Poverty in Nigeria

By Demola Oriyomi Ojo. Sustainable development advocate and volunteer with SuS Pads & Hope Spring. It is a fact that menstruation is a natural biological process. It is also a fact that every girl, from around the age of 12, until middle age, between the ages of 45- 55 will menstruate every month. Managing this…

Helping Zokutu Find Water: My reflections – Ekene May

11 Nov

Helping Zokutu Find Water: My reflections – Ekene May

My bags are all set and I awaited the call, a lot of in-between drama and I eventually joined the Media for Community Change team at the Gudu F.O Fuel Station and we were Zokutu-bound. Where do I even begin? 2 hours or was it 3? I just knew we got there, all seven of…

MFCC joins WaterAid Nigeria for Urban Sanitation Dissemination Workshop

ChiChi Okoye, WaterAid Country Director.

02 Nov

MFCC joins WaterAid Nigeria for Urban Sanitation Dissemination Workshop

On Wednesday, October 30 and Thursday, October 31, 2019, WASH experts drawn from the African continent, selected government delegations and non-state actors in Nigeria met at the Rockview Hotel in Abuja for a 2-day dissemination workshop hosted by WaterAid Nigeria. The 2-day event tagged, “National Dissemination Workshop on Context Analysis Study of Urban Sanitation in 3 Nigerian Cities – Enugu, Kano and Warri” was…

World Press Freedom Day

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Had the pleasure of participating in one of Media For Community Change programs on leveraging social media to achieve sustainable development. Its a great initiative for inclusive learning & expanding local communities reach on social platforms through media especially in these crucial times.

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You are awesome guys, more grease to your elbow.

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People have joined us on this mission

Storytelling

Media Advocacy

Organization Empowerment

Media Law Reform

Education

OUR REACH

International Collaboration

Foreign Policy

Capacity Building

Women Empowerment

Partnership

OUR PUBLICATIONS

#WaterPoverty in Lai Papa Community in Oyo state, Nigeria

MFCC partners with Swedish Embassy to commemorate World Press Freedom Day

COVID-19: How hunger, death and threat of community infections haunt IDP camps

SuS Pads project what is this initiative about?

COP25: “We are not here to point fingers” – Seyifunmi Adebote.

International Volunteer Day – What To Know

World AIDS day: Nigeria and Hopeful Projections

Reusable Sanitary Pads: One of The Remedies for Alleviating Period Poverty in Nigeria

Helping Zokutu Find Water: My reflections – Ekene May

MFCC joins WaterAid Nigeria for Urban Sanitation Dissemination Workshop

World Press Freedom Day

World Press Freedom Day

WE HOPE TO REACH-OUT TO MORE COMMUNITIES THROUGH THE MEDIA. SUPPORT US!

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