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Jakin Childrens Club
ABOUT JAKIN
CHILDREN’S CLUB
Reforming young hearts!
JAKIN CHILDREN’S CLUB (JCC) is an initiative of Jakin N.G.O which
was inaugurated March 13th 2010. JCC was carved out of a need to
create a platform for orphans and vulnerable children within the
SAMARITAN PLATFORM PROJECT (SPP) of Jakin to come together, interact
and receive various reformative trainings.
Jakin N.G.O is registered as JAKINMINIS INTERNATIONAL COMPANY
LIMITED BY GUARANTEE i.e. an N.G.O allowed to trade. The
organization founded by Mrs Olubukola Adebiyi was established on
October 12th 2003 and it began operations on November 30th 2003 in
Lagos State. It is a non governmental organization with an overall
aim of mobilizing resources to solve some of the social ills in our
society.
Samaritan Platform Project (SPP) is an initiative of JAKIN which
kicked off in February, 2004. It was established to provide welfare
to the needy. The essence of the project is to identify the
challenges these needy people are facing, discover its root cause
and improvise lasting ways of improving their physical, social and
financial conditions. These people can be poor, unemployed, below a
particular income level or in need of assistance due to
circumstances beyond their immediate capacity. So far, SPP has
reached out to over 8000 less privileged people including over 4,459
Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC).
As scientist George Washington Carver once said, “How far you go in
life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with
the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak
and the strong because someday in life you will have been all of
these”.
Jakin Children’s
Club (JCC) was established to bring together orphans and vulnerable
children living out side the four walls of an orphanage or rehab.
Considering the population of Lagos State and the extent of poverty
in the nation, it is obvious that the available orphanages and
rehabs can only accommodate a tiny fraction of such children. Within
the seven years of operating, we have visited various orphanages and
met numerous challenged individuals and families. We have realized
from this experience that thousands of children on the streets or
with there parents are actually living in worse conditions than
their peers in structured orphanages and rehabs.
This is basically
because of the poor living conditions and upbringing these children
are exposed to as a result of the poverty levels of their biological
parents. Many are results of rape or reckless lifestyles of
teenagers while some started in proper homes but things went wrong
immediately their parents faced unpredicted challenges such as
broken marriages, sicknesses, loss of means of livelihood, death,
natural or manmade disasters and lots more. Abandoned by relatives
and driven by a sense of survival, these children are forced into
various forms of unimaginable hardship.
OBJECTIVE
The objective of JAKIN CHILDREN’S CLUB (JCC) is to bring such
children together at least once a month to interact and have a sense
of belonging. They are able to receive various educative,
reformative and transformative trainings in a well structured
environment to help improve their quality of life. Through SPP,
Jakin will continue to work with them and their care givers to
provide them educational, psychosocial, nutritional, health and
other welfare supports. It has an overall aim of reforming this
young hearts.
AGE LIMITS
JCC is for children ranging from ages 0-<18yrs old. They are divided
into 3 groups for proper monitoring. The groups are
a) Infant and Minor Group 0-4yrs and their Caregivers
b) Kids Group 5-11yrs
c) Teens Group 12-<18yrs
Within the first six months JCC already has a membership strength of
almost 200 children and have held six meetings.
ACTIVITIES SO FAR
1) one day personal hygiene workshop for twenty –one children
between the ages of 5 and 11 years
2) Street walk tagged “WALK TO FIND A STREET CHILD” , the essence of
the walk was to locate, make friends and give gifts to street
children that hawk, beg, wash windscreen, loiter etc in traffic
around the Mainland local Government area. We made 68 new friends
some of who are now members of JCC.
3) Malaria enlightenment workshop and “How to conquer evil
imagination” re- orientation session for 21 children between 12-<18
years old.
4) “Mother and child nutrition” workshop and “how to dress your
child” re-orientation session for 18 children between 0- 4 YEARS and
17 caregivers.
5) Children’s day party and tuberculosis enlightenment workshop for
34 children and 14 caregivers.
6) Epilepsy enlightenment workshop and good manners interactive
session for 31 children between the ages of 5 – 11yrs.
7) HIV/AIDS Awareness Workshop and “Peer Pressure” re- orientation
session for 31 children between 12-<18yrs old.
8) Immunization workshop for children between 0-4yrs and their
caregivers.
9) “DRESS A CHILD FOR SCHOOL PROJECT” which provided basic school
items for 200 children within Iwaya and Makoko communities for a new
academic session.
ABOUT JAKIN N.G.O
JAKIN N.G.O is a registered NGO allowed to trade. The name “JAKIN”
is a Hebrew word for “HE ESTABLISHES”. It seeks to improve our
society by creating a neutral and conducive atmosphere for resources
to be generated for charity while they are simultaneously channeled
to the less privileged. JAKIN operates a friendly, unbiased and
flexible structure that grants the needy and less privileged access
to freely discuss their issues and also receive various forms of
financial, psychosocial, material, academic and medical supports
that tackle their situation from its root cause. Our key focus areas
are Economic Empowerment, Training, Health, Education and Welfare.
Our objectives ranges from developing dynamic and well structured
channel for bridging gap between potential beneficiaries and
resources obtained for charity, to create a friendly and neutral
atmosphere for the needy, design and embark on projects that
provides a conducive platform for resources to be generated for
charity, to build a world class, competent and durable organization
whose foundation is built on integrity, transparency and fairness,
and to also partner with corporate organizations in providing
effective corporate social responsibility solutions.
Since the inception of our SAMARITAN PLATFORM PROJECT (SPP) in
February 2004 and as at December 2009, we have successfully assisted
the Nigerian Government in reaching out to over 10,000 less
privileged people. Economic empowerment has been provided for 78
people; welfare for 4,137 people; educational support for 195
people; trainings for 348 people; healthcare assistance for 49
people amongst our beneficiaries are 515 Widows; 822 people living
with HIV/AIDS; 488 Prisoners; 4,459 orphans and vulnerable children;
122 homes; 72 organisations and 29 other help
organisations as far Sudan, Darfur, and Liberia.
With a vision to be the foremost mentioned when needs arise, our
mission is to improve our society by strategically accumulating
resources for charity and appropriately disbursing them to the
needy, faith-based and other help organizations.
JAKIN has its head office in Lagos State with staff strength of 13
and over 200 volunteers, and also has a branch in Zamfara State. In
its almost 7 years of existence, JAKIN has successfully assisted the
Nigerian Government in meeting the MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS. |
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