Her expanded customer base brought jobs for the youth. ‘’Previously, my core staffing was nothing to write home about. What I was able to do with my funds was increase my staff strength in terms of marketers. I call them my foot soldiers’’. She was finally able to get the choice business location she had…
Eke said, “PIND came and did three days cassava demo with an established demonstration farm. They use their herbicides on the land and a tractor came and ploughed the land. They harrowed and ridged it for planting. PIND came with the newly improved cassava stems. After planting they showed us how to apply the herbicides.”
It is the pond training that Ogundolire, Owoeye, Okparaeke, and other fish farmers across the Niger Delta received to enable them to increase production and maximize profit. “I had almost quit the business. It was when PIND informed us about the training that I decided to give it a try in July 2017. I came…
For a long time Rachael Misan-Ruppee had always nursed the ambition of touching the lives of people in her community. Each time she mooted the idea of what to do contribute to development of Warri, the capital city of Delta State, a number of options ran through her mind.
“I make sure I bring in peace because of the area we live in,” says Wariboko who joined the P4P network in 2016. “This is Port Harcourt town where you see many characters. You see the retired militants and the current militants. So I use the little power I have to maintain peace in my community.’’
“Before now, we were involved in manual means of harvesting using cutlasses and for trees that are taller; we use the rope to climb in order to be able to prune the bunches,” says Osagie Melody, the Chief Executive Officer of Lixomon Palm Oil Farms located in Benin-Akure road, Edo state.
The project improved income generating employment opportunities for Nigerian youth and young adults, whose shortage is a major cause of migration to European and other industrialised countries.
Meet Tari Jackson, a woman in Bayelsa State who owns a fish drying business in Fish Town, Yenagoa. Learning about a cold room in her community helped her cut down on losses due to food waste.
Uduak Etuk is from Ekono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. She is a woodworker. She shares how working in construction as a woman can be challenging, and why, with PIND’s youth empowerment programmes, she has learned to think outside the box and be financially viable
Prior to getting into PIND’s mentorship program, the Chief Executive of the Society for the Empowermentof Young Persons (SEYP) wrote all proposals by herself, despite having five (5) employees and many volunteers. With an organizational capacity mentorship program with PIND, SEYP restructured its organizational structure and the management of of its teams. They were able…