Education

Education is vital to ensuring a better quality of life for all children and a better world for all people, thus the insurgency that hit the northern part of the country for the past 10 years has eat deep in to so many things and Education is not left out. There has being burning of schools in the region as they are against western education. According to Malala Yousafzai “With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”

In Nigeria, about 10.5 million children are not in school even though primary education is officially free and compulsory.About 10.5 million of the country’s children aged 5-14 years are not in school. Only 61 percent of 6-11year-olds regularly attend primary school and only 35.6 percent of children aged 36-59 months receive early childhood education. “One in every five of the world’s out-of-school children is in Nigeria” (UNICEF). “A child Miseducated is a child Lost”.

In the north of the country, the picture is even bleaker, with a net attendance rate of 53 percent. Getting out-of-school children back into education poses a massive challenge.In north-eastern Nigeria, 2.8 million children are in need of education-in-emergencies support in three conflict-affected States (Borno, Yobe, Adamawa). In these States, at least 802 schools remain closed and 497 classrooms are listed as destroyed, with another 1,392 damaged but repairable. (UNICEF).

The aim of Wazobia Humanitarian Foundation educational programme is to support the government in achieving SDG 4 by 2030 through support, promote and provide access to good quality education.

Gender, like geography and poverty, is an important factor in the pattern of educational marginalization. States in the north-east and north-west have female primary net attendance rates of 47.7 percent and 47.3 percent, respectively, meaning that more than half of the girls are not in school. The education deprivation in northern Nigeria is driven by various factors, including economic barriers and socio-cultural norms and practices that discourage attendance in formal education, especially for girls.”To educate girls is to reduce poverty,” says Kofi Annan OUR APPROACH:

• To support, promote and provide access to good quality education through provision of educational materials, aids and School Bags.
• Building of movable classrooms and Temporal Learning Space.
• Sensitizing the Parents and communities to have improved knowledge and commitment to contribute to enrolling children at the right age in quality learning in safe and protective school environments. Creating an entrepreneur platform for the most vulnerable parents to enable them send their children to school and meet up with the demands.

Nutrition

In northeast Nigeria, in the three states that have been affected by the ongoing conflict, one in every five children is severely malnourished. An estimated 940,000 children aged 6 to 59 months across these states are acutely malnourished, 440,000 with Severe Acute Malnutrition and 500,000 with Moderate Acute Malnutrition.

Statics Has Show That Malnutrition Is A Direct Or Underlying Cause Of 45 Percent Of All Deaths Of Under-Five Children.

It should be worth knowing that the first 1,000 days of a child’s life offer a unique window of opportunity for preventing under nutrition and its consequences. Thereby cause for creating a conscious action to this critical period to ensure good nutrition for every child in Nigeria.

Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children in the world, with a national prevalence rate of 32 percent of children under five. An estimated 2 million children in Nigeria suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), but only two out of every 10 children affected is currently reached with treatment. Seven percent of women of childbearing age also suffer from acute malnutrition.

To the above, Wazobia Humanitarian Foundation seeks to support and reduce the above cause through the following

• Partnering with government and other nutritional organization to distribute free micronutrient supplements to children and pregnant woman.
• By supporting the education and counselling of mothers and caregivers on how to adequately feed their children, exclusive breastfeeding, food and general hygiene required to maintain a healthy life.
• Child care and optimal Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices in other to prevent, sustain and reduced the causes of malnutrition.

Protection

It is a known fact that whenever disaster strikes, either its violent conflict,5 economic downturn, insurgency, pandemic or a natural event, there are some people that are affected the most, children and women are majorly among the most vulnerable to negative effects. They may fall victim to any number of threats, including psychosocial distress, family separation, widowhood, interruption in education, physical and emotional abuse, trafficking and neglect, to mentioned a few.

For the past decade, the Northeaster part of the country has been hit with the insurgency and has affected a lot of people and many flew from their place of origin to seek refuge in some of the camps.

In lieu to this, many people are displaced, the camps are most congested and some have resulted in staying off the camp and are leaving in an informal camp where things seem to be worst for them.

Wazobia Humanitarian Foundation seek to enhance protection mechanisms for the most vulnerable members of the communities especially Children and women by implementing activities to respond to the risks and consequences of violence and abuse for children and caregivers which include psychosocial support in the child and youth-friendly spaces, case management, helping them to build their self-esteem and resilience through empowerment, Awareness-raising campaigns toward Gender Based Violence, Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA), Service Referral Pathway, Awareness on human rights. To mentioned a few.

Food Security & Livelihood

According to Cadre Harmonize (CH), For the current period (October to December 2020), about 10 million people (9.8%) of the analyzed population are in the critical phases (phase 3-5) of food and nutrition insecurity. Of these population, 689,128 (6.9%) are resident in completely inaccessible or inaccessible communities of partially accessible LGAs in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States. During the projected period (June to August 2021), in the absence of intensified resilience-driven livelihood interventions and food aid support from the humanitarian actors; these figures are expected to increase to 13.8 million (12.9%) people across the 15 states and the FCT. Of the vulnerable population during the projected period, about 867,470 (6.25%) persons are located in inaccessible or partially accessible communities of Borno, Adamawa (Madagali) and Yobe (Geidam) States.

Wazobia Humanitarian Foundation seeks to Partnering with government and food security sector/Actor for distribution of food to the community, creating income generating activities for people in the community, Establishing and monitoring kitchen garden for the people in the community, creating an avenue for the people to learn skills or improve on their skills by making material resources available for them.