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OUR
LOCAL NETWORK PARTNERS:
Akwamfon Sustainable Community Association (ASCA)
Akwamfon
is a membership based organisation recently formed and registered
in Akwa Ibom state of Nigeria with the help of Sustainable Development
Network Limited (SDN), its founding member. ASCA is working
closely (as a local partner) with SDN to promote sustainable
development among communities in Akwa Ibom and elsewhere in
Nigeria through sustainable education, knowledge and
information sharing, poverty reduction and other sustainable
development projects.
Emineima
Women NGO (Essien Udim Group)
Emineima
Women NGO is another local group that Sustainable Development
Network (SDN) has helped formed and registered with Akwa Ibom
State Government of Nigeria. The group aims to work with SDN to
reach out to women in Essien Udim Local Government Area through
sustainable Agriculture and other projects. Emineima’s pilot
project is a lemon grass and other farming project using the
land allocated to the group by the Essien Udim Local Government.
The lemon grass project will provide essential oil and
lemon grass tea for local and hopefully international markets. Support
and Training Entrepreneurship Program (STEP)
SDN
is networking with the Support and Training Entrepreneurship
Program (STEP) to explore and develop initiatives that will
catalyse sustainable livelihood and food security in Akwa Ibom
State of
Nigeria. STEP is a Nigerian based enterprise development
NGO established by the World Bank.
Akede Women Group
Akede Women Group is a
Kenyan based NGO set up with the purpose of caring for
orphans of HIV/AIDS victims in their rural community. They
currently run a home-based orphanage care for children
of primary and nursery school ages. As parents they extend
their parental care to orphans. SDN is currently advising
them on project development and linking them with possible
funding sources. Click
here to read more about Akede Women Group.
Women's
Health and Economic Development Association
Women's
Health and Economic Development Association (WHEDA-Nigeria) is a
Nigerian based non-governmental organisation with over 121
member groups across the Niger-Delta region. WHEDA-Nigeria has the
sole aim of improving the well-being of the people especially
the less privileged and deprived women, youths and children in
the rural areas. WHEDA-Nigeria operates with the philosophy that
economic and health potentials of the people are interrelated
and supportive.
University
of Uyo, "Student In Free Enterprise" (UNIUYO SIFE)
Driven with a passion to change
lives through free enterprise education and guided by their
philosophy of "Take a Net, not a fish"; the UNIUYO
Student In Free Enterprise (UNIUYO SIFE) team has
taken free enterprise to various communities. So far
the UNIUYO SIFE team has executed over fifteen projects and has
affected positively the lives of many. The UNIUYO
SIFE team was among the top five in the 2003 SIFE World
championship held in Germany (Click
here to read about this achievement).
University of Uyo is a
Federal University, located in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria.
Founded in 1975, "Students
In Free Enterprise (SIFE)" is a U.S.-headquartered
non-profit organization, that works in partnership
with hundreds of universities and businesses. SIFE organizes,
motivates, and trains university students to form “management
teams” that design, develop and implement thousands of
community-based micro-business, training and educational
projects to create and expand economic opportunity through
hands-on and practical training projects. Globally, SIFE Teams
are active on more than 1600 university/college campuses in 40
countries.
OUR
INTERNATIONAL NETWORK PARTNERS:
EAST-SHEEN
CHANGANNUR TRUST LIMITED (ESCT)
The East
Sheen-Chengannur Trust (ESCT) is a UK registered
charity. SDN is helping ESCT to set up self funding projects
to support an ESCT sponsored school (the Immaculate Nursery
and Primary School) in Oron, Nigeria, as
well as advising on sustainable management of the school.
Similarly, ESCT has been a great support to SDN's Ikpe
Udok Rural Education project by donating to the project and awarding a
secondary school scholarship to a girl from our group.
 DEVELOPMENT
GATEWAY FOUNDATION
SDN is
partnering for the
Development Gateway Special Report:
Aid Harmonization -
What will it Take to Reach the Millennium Development Goals?
This online Special Report
explores how
an unprecedented effort for global cooperation is taking shape
to help reach the goals and includes: interviews;
collections of documents,
statistics, surveys; and a unique section devoted to the
"voices" of aid recipients and donors.
We are also partnering as a cooperating
organisation for the Development Gateway's Gender
and Development topic page. The Gender
and Development page of the Development Gateway is
envisioned as an Internet platform for gender and
development-related resources, information, and dialogue. The
objective is to enhance the effectiveness of development efforts
worldwide through sharing knowledge of gender-sensitive
analysis, actions and policies. The Development
Gateway Foundation is an enabler of development. This
independent not-for-profit organization is helping improve
people’s lives in developing countries by building partnerships
and information systems that provide access to knowledge for
development.
PAT
LITTLE (ARTS AND CRAFT ARTIST)
In
support of the skill acquisition project, Pat
Little a self-taught papier mache specialist has offered
her voluntary service as a consultant to the project. She
shares her skills by giving classes to adults &
children. She is already training one of the trustees of SDN
in papier mache and card making, in a train the trainers
phase. She has also offered to train other trainers in
Nigeria via the internet. Her work is sold through craft shops & galleries
& private commissions. Some of her hand made greetings
cards have been featured in Craft Creations magazines.
ACTIONAID
RECYCLING LTD
ActionAid
Recycling Ltd, originally, part of ActionAid
UK, is an organization that refurbishes used mobile phone
handsets and makes them available at affordable prices to people
in Africa and other developing countries.
ActionAid Recycling Ltd is supplying refurbished mobile
phones to SDN at very low prices; SDN in turn is sending these
handsets to local groups in Nigeria to set up rural pay phone
services. SDN is grateful to the office of ActionAid UK in
London for linking us with Actionaid Recycling Ltd.
WORLD
LINKS
World
Links, an independent non-profit organization based in USA,
began in mid-1997 as an initiative of Mr. James D. Wolfensohn,
President of the World Bank.
“World Links connects youth around the world in a
global learning network, allowing them to share their knowledge,
perspectives, and their hopes and dreams with their peers”.
Since inception, World Links has expanded to over 20 developing
countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East,
reaching approximately 200,000 youth in over 1,000 schools and
community tele-centers.
SDN is collaborating with World Links to explore possible
establishment of
“Internet Learning Centres” and “Tele-centre” for
schools and communities in Nigeria.
Humanitarian Information for All (Human
Info NGO)
Based in Belgium, the objective
of the Humanitarian
Information for All (formerly known as Humanity CD-ROM
Project) is to provide all persons involved in development,
well-being and basic needs, access to a complete library
containing most solutions, know-how and ideas they need to
tackle poverty and increase the human potential. The
organisation provides complete development & basic needs
CD-ROM libraries at the lowest cost possible for developing
countries as an efficient way to achieve its objective. Click
here to visit their website and see the range of CD-Rom libraries
currently available.
THE NEW
ACADEMY OF BUSINESS
SDN has
benefited immensely, especially when we first started, from the advice and guidance of The
New
Academy of Business, a UK based charitable organization.
Their Core activities include Action Research, MSc in
Responsibility and Business Practice [in collaboration with the
University of Bath], MBA teaching, Corporate Responsibility
Learning in companies as well as Learning and Innovation
Network. The New Academy of Business is working with the United
Nations Volunteers and UNDP on a number of ongoing research
projects in various countries.
DONORS AND SUPPORTERS:
SDN is very,
very grateful to the various individuals and organizations
that donated
and are still donating money, their time and
other resources toward our projects.
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