Tag: Media

05Apr

HOPESPRING, WATERAID, MFCC LAUNCHED WASHCLUB IN SCHOOLS

Hope Spring Water Charity Foundation, as a Non-governmental Organization with a core focus in alleviating water poverty and providing WASH education in communities, found it imperative to extend WASH education to schools by establishing WASH clubs in Nigeria schools under the ‘Hope Spring WASH to School’ (W2S) Initiative.

With the knowledge that a child spends an average of 6 hours in
school. While it is predicted that about 50% of schools in Nigeria do not have any source of improve water supply, 80% of schools lack WASH education, these daily exposes school children to grave health risk.

ABOUT THE WASH QUIZ COMPETITION:
The aim of the WASH Quiz competition organized by Hope Spring Water Charity Foundation was to create more awareness about Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) among Nigerian students. The event held on 20 March 2019, at IBI Training Centre, Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, it is the first of its kind in Nigeria and was supported by WaterAid Nigeria, Media for Community Change, AgroNature Nigeria and EnvironFocus Nigeria.

In attendance were 58 students from 5 schools (both public and private schools.) List of schools in attendance includes;

Junior Secondary School Karmo, Sabo
Junior Secondary School Apo,
Solid Rock International School, Abuja.
Covenant International School, Abuja.
Junior Secondary School, Idu Koro.

THE WASH QUIZ CONTEST:
Solid Rock International Schools was the overall winner with a total score of 85 points, after one hour of interesting WaSH quiz session. The questions were tailored towards assessing the contestants’ knowledge of WaSH and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Covenant International School, JSS Karmo, JSS Apo and JSS Idu Koro recorded 75, 60, 35 and 35 points respectively. A Life Straw Community Water Dispenser was awarded to the winner. Branded bags, shirts and caps were handed over
to all participants.

Hope Spring Water remains committed to expanding reach to more schools across the federation and are following up with potential sponsors and partners who are passionate about imparting lives through providing water resources.

We look forward to strengthening and sustaining these collaborations to achieve the goal of the WASH Club initiative in Nigerian schools.

12Dec

IUCN FEATURES MFCC DURING COP24 in POLAND

The Global Climate Change Youth Movement is set to beat the Guinness World Record 2018 by engaging young people to create 100’000 climate change postcards. This project by The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC is a unique approach to engage children and youths to take immediate actions to stop global warming in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

As leaders and decision makers prepare to advance Climate Action during the Conference of Parties (COP24) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poland; Media for Community Change Initiative, an implementing partner in Nigeria has raised the voice of young people. Undoubtedly, children and youths make up the generations that can drive towards climate compatible as they will have to live longer with tomorrow’s climate.

READ MORE ON IUCN WEBSITE

23Jul

The Role of Communication in Creating a Social Change

Communication finds its place at core of the social development agenda, whereby it welds together marginalized and isolated communities, diverse s and subcultures, groups and individuals, and combines the efforts of change.

Communication plays a crucial role in education, social, and economic progress by not only facilitating trade and transmitting ideas beyond boundaries, but also promoting human development in the remotest corners of the globe.

Media will continue to play a major role in changing our society by driving people to participate in strengthening democratic processes and implementation of social initiatives, thereby promoting inclusive, holistic and sustainable development of the nation.

We are Media For Community Change Initiative, we are working to create an UNUSUAL CHANGE using the power of media.

We are open to partnership and collaborations that will trickles down our impact to the marginalized. Write us;
info [at] mediaforcommunitychange [dot] org

18Jul

MFCC, MHCDI EXPLORES PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY

The real heroes are folks who defy all odds to selflessly and consistently work in local communities to birth sustainable development that impacts the lives of disadvantaged people.

At Media for Community Change, we constantly look out for such folks and we are always delighted to beam our spotlight on their interventions in rural communities and amplify their voices across the global scene.

On Monday, July 16th, 2018, MFCC’s Founder, Mr. Jimoh Oluwatobi Segun and our Project Director, Mr. ‘Seyifunmi Adebote met with My Hero Community Development Initiative’s Founder, Ms. Ajayi Rita, to profile some of MHCDI’s past efforts and discuss on how to forge strengths towards achieving greater successes in the coming months.

Leveraging the new media, Media for Community Change is super delighted to explore this partnership opportunity with “My Hero Community Development Initiative” for the social good of the people and towards making our world a better people.

We believe we can change our world, one community at a time and we are ready to make tremendous impacts. Will you join us?

Watch this space!

25Jun

MFCC BECAME AN OFFICIAL PARTNER OF UYOLO

On the 9th of June 2018, Media For Community Change Initiative became an official partner of Uyolo after a series of emails & thorough documentations. We are grateful!

Uyolo is an organization based in Milan, Italy that promotes promote philanthropy and volunteering. With their mobile app which was launched on the 15th June 2018, they aim to connect the dots and establish a trustworthy relationship between NGOs, NPOs, CSOs and donors from different part of the world. The app is available on Google play store for android users and apple stores for iPhone Users.

We are so grateful to the team at Uyolo for counting Media For Community Change Initiative Worthy to be part of the organization they would be working with.

The host of NGOpodcast Show had an exclusive interview with Alessandra Gargiulo one of the Co-founders of the organization during the launching in Milan, Italy and she would be our guest on the next publication of an episode of #NGOpodcast show. Keep on tab!

We look forward to more fruitful and amazing partnership. Together we can make the world a better place.
Cheers to greater height and more impact.
Regards

22Jun

Dr. Laz Ude – “Advocate for issues you’re most passionate about”

As more young people continue to selflessly work towards the actualization of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria, the Executive Director of ‎Pink Oak Cancer Trust, Dr. Laz Ude has urged young people to advocate for issues they are most passionate about.

Speaking in Abuja, at a recent capacity building program organized by Media for Community Change with the theme: “Maximizing the New Media for Sustainable Development”; the health physician, policy advocate and development consultant, stressed the importance of passion in advocacy and social interventions.

Dr Laz Ude Urging Participant to be passionate about what they care about

“Passion is really important. Advocate for issues you’re most passionate about. When you identify an issue, first, you must make accurate diagnose about the problem. Next, you should define the objectives of your intervention applying the SMART approach. Remember, for any remarkable success, you and your team must have sufficient information and apply accurate data to solve the challenge and actualize the global goals.”

Dr. Laz, who is also the producer of weekly radio program – Talk Health Naija, further advised people working around the SDGs on collaboration: “Young people should deploy the media to amplify their efforts towards actualizing the Sustainable Development Goals. Partnering with other people who share the similar passion will go a long way to help.”

The capacity building workshop trained 30 organizations on leveraging the new media and other technological tools to achieve sustainable development across various scopes of engagements.