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What the Founder of Hope for African Children Initiative has to say: If possible, please give an estimate of the amount of people you have impacted with your actions to create positive change and explain how. An estimate of about 7,500 lives have been touched through my actions to create positive change in my country. These actions range from my involvement with NGOs and Volunteer Organizations, my personal actions through my own Organization  to harness resources towards bridging the enrollment gap into schools between Orphans/Vulnerable out-of-school children and children in school, through the provision of educational scholarships and other psycho-social support programs. Having spent some years in the North Eastern part of Nigeria, and seen what life is in the refugee camp for the IDPs, I became more aware of worldwide humanitarian crises especially with the refugees; ever since then, I lead and co-ordinate national actions to protect refugees and resolve refugee p...
What the Founder of Hope for African Children Initiative has to say: If possible, please give an estimate of the amount of people you have impacted with your actions to create positive change and explain how. An estimate of about 7,500 lives have been touched through my actions to create positive change in my country. These actions range from my involvement with NGOs and Volunteer Organizations, my personal actions through my own Organization to harness resources towards bridging the enrollment gap into schools between Orphans/Vulnerable out-of-school children and children in school, through the provision of educational scholarships and other psycho-social support programs. Having spent some years in the North Eastern part of Nigeria, and seen what life is in the refugee camp for the IDPs, I became more aware of worldwide humanitarian crises especially with the refugees; ever since then, I lead and co-ordinate national actions to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems...
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Youth for Change (Y4C) engages Nigerian Youths on a One-Day Workshop January 26th , 2017 By: Chris Uzoh Emmanuel Alumona, the Founder of Youth for Change, is a young peace-builder from Nigeria. He is a Volunteer with Amnesty International, and as the Founder of Youths for Change Nigeria, Emmanuel organizes peace-building programs to ensure that other youth do not engage in violent extremism. Having participated in the Global Youth Forum on Security and Violence Extremism (21-22 August, 2016, Jordan) and the Global Youth Summit against Violence Extremism (28 September, 2016, New York), Emmanuel thought it wise to organize an event in Abuja to discuss relevant topics for the youth, peace and security agenda. The title of the workshop which was “Young People, Peace-building and Violent Extremism” aimed at driving home the theme “Sustainable Peace and Nation Building: A Necessity for Nigeria’s Greatness by 2035”. This event was held on January 26, 2017 at the Gadon...
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Very true!!