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The Founder & Executive Director, Blessing Dada, received the Chevening scholarship, the most prestigious scholarship in the world.

Tech Up Rural Girls Project

TechUprural Gils Day2

Report From National Television Authority

Irasa Community Education Outreach

Sarafacdi meet up with Techie in Ekiti State.

The Executive Director, Blessing Dada, received an award from the Guardian of the Nation Center in Abuja, Nigeria.

Sarafacdi partnered with BACI on the Smile With Santa project.

Sarafacdi has partnered with GEGAS Africa on TECH 1.0 Project

Sarafacdi feeds over 150 vulnerable children and youth on the street.

TECH-UP RURAL GIRLS MEETING

The Report of the meeting with the facilitators of Ekiti Tech-up Rural Girls was held on the 25th of March,2023 at D-Rock Academy Centre, behind Adebayo, Ado Ekiti. The meeting started at 10 am. The E.D Of Sarafacdi in the person of Mr Blessing Dada gave a review of the history, mission, vision, objectives and goals of the organization, Slum and Rural Aid for Africa Child Development Initiative (SARAFACDI). He went further to introduce the other executive members.

There was an introductory Session: where the Facilitators introduce themselves, and we had 14 Facilitators present, among them are digital marketers, graphic & motion designers, Robotics engineers, Web developers, etc. They introduced themselves by providing their names, tech skills and niche, place of work, the reason for volunteering, and the impact they hope to make on the rural girls. They gave an explicit introduction, assuring us that they are really set to impact.

The E.D. explained and presented what the training was all about. He made clear the targeted beneficiaries, which are 30 females whose age range is 14-23, mostly Adolescent girls from the Southwest local government of Ekiti State. Facilitators were able to explain and buttress how they can easily impact the community and our target girls. We went further to analyse their needs and their availability.

SARAFACDi Social Impact Activities Timeline

Drug/Substances Abuse Prevention Outreach

Drug/Substance Abuse Prevention Outreach

We started the canoe of impact on the 27th of September when we hosted a Twitter space to sensitize youths online before our onsite programs. On the 28th of September, our team which consisted of 25 volunteers visited 3 schools for an educative and advocacy outreach to form and create awareness about Drug/substance Abuse prevention, especially among teenagers. This program was held in collaboration with FAMSA-SOMMER in partnership with the Tobacco Control group Of Company Nigeria, in Sagamu, Ogun state. We visited Kawafunmi Primary school (over 25 pupils), Kawefunmi Secondary School (92 students) and Methodist Remo secondary school (We made 60 students and 2 teachers agents of change, and spread our impact to the 1500 students remaining). Drama was performed to help instil the concepts in their mind as stories aid memory retention (presented by the Tobacco control group and Sarafacdi Media team) and was also used as a strategy to educate the pupils. Stationeries like Books to help the students were distributed to about 50 students and 10 pupils to help support them in their academics. A pep talk was given to them about the importance of education as it could help them explore the world. The Result shows that: Both the students and pupils were very happy as it was an edutainment and interactive session, even the pupils from the primary school were eager to answer questions and give a summary of what they had learned.

#sarafacdi #communityoutreach #saynotodrugs #famsa-scomer #medicalstudent #sarafacdi4africa #SaynotodrugsOgun #TobaccoCtrl #Edicateachild #volunteers #sdgs

Writer: Zulaikha Idris

Irasa community Outreach

On the 26th Feb 2022…

The Sarafacdi team decided to put a smile on the children of the Irasa Ado-Ekiti community. Two months ago, we visited the community for research purposes and we discover they lack school materials, poor parenting, and eagerness to be in school couple with gender violence.

Yesterday, we brought enough educational materials such as Biros, Notebooks, Textbooks, pencils, rulers etc.

In addition, we also brought expertise such as Gender Mobile , Emerald Matters , Goldheart Foundation , Build a child initiative among others.

Together we will reduce out-of-school children, gender violence and provide adequate access to quality education amidst the rural, slum, remote and marginalised areas of Nigeria.

We build future leaders at all cost..

Irasa Community Primary School Outreach in celebration of Children's Day.

Irasa Community Primary School Outreach in celebration of Children’s Day.

On 26th May 2022, the Sarafacdi team visited Irasa community primary school in collaboration with @Chisom Stephen, Christiana Titilayo Foundation – CTF , and @build a child initiative to create equal learning opportunities for every child by providing the school children with education relive materials that include Sanders, Textbook, Notebooks, Dustbins etc.

Moreover, we deliberated on the theme:Investing in our future means investing in our children, and also ensuring that son of no man can become somebody in life (mind shift).

Children are the flowers from paradise. However, we should make this world a safe and pleasant spot for our kids.

Happy children’s day.

Photo credit: DigitLab Media

#sarafacdi #outreach #educationforall #1bookforachild #sarafacdi4africa #nonprofitorganization #childrenempowerment #teenagers #eradicateilliteracy #helpachild #childrenandteenagers #changinglives #changingtheworld #impactinglives #impactasoul

#precioussouls

Smile With Santa

Smile with Santa 2022

On the 22nd of December, we had an amazing moment with the children at Irasa community, Ado Ekiti. Sarafacdi worked as a partner with the organiser of the “Smile with Santa 2022” led by the Build a child initiative to impact over 150 children in the community.

We contributed toward making the children smile through edutainment and empowerment by giving educational relief materials like books, food, drinks and clothes items, among other things.

Needless to say that we have been on a successful journey of Impacting the Irasa community right from the beginning of the year, we executed most of our projects and brought different organisations through collaboration such as @Gendermobile, @goldheart_foundation, @reformeducationafrica, @baciimpacts and many more.

#smilewithsanta2022 #sarafacdi4africa #BACI #Educationforall #sdg4 #slum

Tech1.0

A report published by Dataprot indicated that only 24% of computing jobs are held by women.

To raise the next generation of tech giants, @GEGAS Africa in partnership with SARAFACDI is organizing a 3 months scholarship-based program tagged Breaking into Tech 1.0. This program will involve a 1-day in-person seminar where the tech scholars learn about the basics of UI/UX design, Web Development, Data Analysis and Graphics design. Followed by a 3 months online mentorship from experts in their areas of interest. Supporting Breaking into Tech 1.0 was an amazing experience we will love to do again. On the 2nd of July 2022. @gegasafrica in partnership with us trained over 20 sponsorship participants on how to navigate through various topics in Tech that include graphic design, branding, Data analysis, Web Design, Product design etc.

Feed a Friend on the Street

Operation feeds a friend on the street 2022…

A program Organized by Sarafacdi4africa with the support of @Omiata Seyi, GEGAS, Blended Learning & Study Center, and many others to impact underserved and vulnerable children across Ekiti, Oyo and Ondo States executed early yesterday simultaneously. The project feed over 200 vulnearable children and youth. We say thank you!

#feedafriendonthestreet #feedafriend2022 #sarafacdi4africa #sarafacdi

One Book For A Child

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives. Project One-book for a child continues… visitation to St Stephen Anglican Nursery and Primary school, Ifemayowa Nur/pry school, St Peter pry school, Ilawe-Ekiti, Surajudeen Pry school, Ado Ekiti and many more. This has impacted over 4000 children across southwest Nigeria.

#team #project #school #volunteersmakeadifference #donations

#onebookforachild #sarafacdi4africa

Educate a Child

Educate a Child project focus on improving quality education in Ibadan, Oyo state. This project commence on November 2019 and ended by Dec 2021. Through this project, we organised a physical classroom to mentor over 100 student from Ogungbade community high school, Ibadan which improve their success rate from 25% to over 85% success rate in their final exams. It also impacted over 6000 young school children through sensitization.