Success Stories Archives - PIND’s 10th Year Anniversary

SUCCESS STORY: P4P Restores Peace between Two Warring Communities.

bright — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 23:35:58 +0000

The people believe the work of P4P can significantly reduce incidents of conflict in the region. Dr Ogbongo requests that ‘’the P4P should continue what they are doing. In fact, by bringing their work to the grassroots as they have done, issues like fighting and killing will be reduced if not even wiped out’’.

While the communities credit P4P for the fostered peace, Uzezi credits PIND for empowering them to serve the communities.

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SUCCESS STORY: Business Support Catapults Small Retailer into Major Distributorship.

bright — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 23:30:54 +0000

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 always desired. ‘’This new place can take three trucks of 4000 bundles of tissue conveniently and that is the capacity we wanted to be at with the injection of these funds. They call my place the beautiful tissue house’’.

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PIND’s Cassava Demonstration Farms are Making Cassava Farming Lucrative Again in the Niger Delta

bright — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 23:25:38 +0000

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.”

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PIND’s Demonstration Ponds are Helping Fish Farmers in the Niger Delta to Increase Productivity

bright — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 23:20:49 +0000

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 back again into the business. I decided not to quit because there are things I learnt from the training that I had not been doing, which I put into practice,” says Ogundolire.

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CAPABLE Training Made DICI to Become a Force to Reckon with in Citizens’ Engagement and Advocacy

bright — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 23:14:17 +0000

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.

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He always come to our rescue: How volunteers are bringing peace to Niger Delta

bright — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:52:33 +0000

“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.’’

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Oil Palm Farming Without Tears – How improved harvesting technology is increasing oil palm production in the Niger Delta

bright — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:44:36 +0000

“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.

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PIND, SKYE and EdoJobs Graduate 200 Young PV Professionals in Edo State

bright — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:14:59 +0000

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.

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Powering Coastal Communities: No More Buying Of Firewood!

meltech — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:53:07 +0000

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.

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Uduak’s Bold Move into Male-Dominated Construction Sector! (Akwa Ibom State)

meltech — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:48:32 +0000

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

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