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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY WITH GLOBAL XCHANGE VOLUNTEERS
Related to country: Nigeria

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The Global Xchange volunteers with support from the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and the British Council on 11th – 12th August 2008 organised a 2-day event to celebrate the International Youth Day (IYD) as well as to take action on Climate Change.

The theme of this year’s IYD was “Youth & Climate Change: Time for Action”. The event was well represented by youth drawn from the six geo-political zones of Nigeria and the Global Xchange Volunteers. The first day of the event was a sensitization forum where the youth had the opportunity to increase their knowledge on Climate Change and the causes of global warming. Mr. Taiwo Adewole a consultant from Sustainable Energy, Lagos gave a detailed presentation on “Climate Change: Youth Call to Action on Environmental Sustainability”. This session gave the participants an opportunity to a better understanding to Climate Change and Global Warming. Mr. Joe Adusei of United Nations Volunteers did a presentation on “Volunteering as a means to mitigating the impact of Climate Change”.

The day 2 of the event was an outdoor event where the youth went out to the streets and parks of Abuja to sensitise the people on Climate Change, the human contributions to Global Warming, how to recycling as well as take personal responsibility in mitigating these actions. The youth also undertook some actions by cleaning up some of these parks which had some waste littered around the environments.

After the outdoor event there was a debriefing session where the youth involved in this activities shared their experiences on the outdoor activity while out in the streets and parks of Abuja.

At the end the day 2 event, the youth were not just better informed but geared up to take personal responsibility and action towards mitigating those personal actions that also contributed to the effects of Climate Change. A communiqué was drafted and the final version will be sent to the Federal, State, Local Government, leaders and policy makers to call them to action to initiate policies and practices that will guard the citizens and bring into consciousness the need for the involvement of the citizenry to this cause as well as ensure the implementation of existing environmental policies.

August 21, 2008 | 7:44 AM Comments  1 comments

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Volunteerism: Tapping into Nigeria’s Human Resources.
Related to country: Nigeria

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Everyday we consciously or ‘unconsciously’ volunteer. You would ask, why the word ‘unconsciously’? Nigeria is one great country still developing in terms of volunteerism with about 70% population, inspite of their involvement in one form of volunteering or the other, fail to neither recognize it nor understand the concept of volunteerism.

Nigeria is delimited with challenges such as Poverty, Poor access to quality education, unemployment and lack of basic health facilities. However, in our limitation lie our strengths and opportunities to tap into our vibrant human resources available at our disposal.

About 5.8% of the Nigerian labour force is currently unemployed which has translated into increased poverty in the lives of the people. The question now is; how can Nigeria strategically utilize her human resources to better her economy and improve the standard of living of her citizenry?

Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) has demonstrated that volunteerism is a strategic tool for improving standard of living, strengthening educational delivery systems and effectively responding to HIV/AIDS scourge.

With 50 years experience in Nigeria delivering services through her international volunteers and partners for the development in our educational sector, health and the supporting of income generating activities in securing the livelihood of the people, shows that Nigeria can thrive in development challenges if we are committed to what we call our own and investing our skills for a positive change.

Arising to her responsibility through the active involvement of government, public, private and civil society sectors, Nigeria can adopt volunteering as one of the tools to tackling unemployment, poverty, health lapses and social vices. The culture of civic responsibility and patriotism needs to be imbibed for a successful application of this tool to effectively intervene in terms of service delivery and for economic growth.

Our human resources should not be allowed to wallow in ignorance and abject poverty in queue for when over-populated labour market will manifest with job opportunities. Individuals can be better productive if there is increase in sensitization on volunteerism as well as active involvement of the government.
Just like our tapped petroleum resources, let us arise today and explore our untapped human resources for volunteerism and for our development.

May 14, 2008 | 11:18 AM Comments  1 comments

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National Summit on Volunteerism, Abuja, Nigeria - December 4- 5, 2007
Related to country: Nigeria

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The Nigerian National Volunteer Service (NNVS) in collaboration with the Voluntary Service overseas (VSO) and the United Nations Volunteers (UNV) would on the 4th and 5th of December, be organizing a National Summit on Volunteerism.

The summit themed: “Volunteerism: Foundation for National Development” is to raise the profile and create awareness on the role of volunteerism as a tool for national development. The summit is also expected to serve as a forum for dialogue and interaction among various stakeholders particularly, government, corporate bodies and volunteer organizations on expanding the frontiers of volunteerism in Nigeria and encouraging Nigerians of all ages to engage in volunteering to help build their community.

The summit will discuss among others;
1) Challenges facing Volunteerism.
2) The role of government in promoting volunteerism.
3) Corporate Volunteerism.
4) Harness the energies of Retirees and the youth in promoting volunteerism.

The summit is open to leaders of volunteer organizations in Nigeria, Heads of Corporate Foundations and Government Agencies and Organizations that utilize the services of volunteers.

This event is taking place at Bolingo Hotel & Towers, Independence Avenue, Central Business District, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria.

November 26, 2007 | 8:39 AM Comments  0 comments

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Fashion for Youth
Related to country: Nigeria


I was going through a Nigerian Newspaper today, and found a caption below the page, which says "What Should be done to check the indecent dressing among youth"? and people were asked to send in comments. If we have to look inwardly, we we all realise that the Fashion of youth today is not the problem of Nigeria. Nigeria is faced with so many challenges ( Health- HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Treatment Access, Poverty, Unemployment, Education, Security, Bad Roads, corruption among others)which i think should be a thing of concern and priority and not the way the youth dress.
Nigerian youth today are faced with the dilemma of unemployment, poverty, access to affordable education, health, among others. This has led to the involvement of some of them in risky behaviours which has brought about increase in moral/social decadence.The fact is that, Nigeria should concentrate on her overwhelming challenges as well creating opportunities for youth to exercise and utilize their full potentials and lets see if these 'indecent dressing' like it was tagged in the newspaper would not be mitigated.
When square pegs are put in square holes, ethics would return.

***Like to mention that indescent dressing is not encouraged here, dress the way you want to be addressed***

August 24, 2007 | 10:44 AM Comments  1 comments

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