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  1. Young Change Maker – Blessing Timidi Digha

    Name: Blessing Timidi Digha Age: 23 Project: Empowerment Seminar State Implemented: Oyo Organization: C.H.A.N.G.E.M.A.K.E.R.S E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +2348037608310 The Need Research holds that sex is one of the major causes of tension in the lives of young people. Growing up in an environment where Timidi saw sex being abused by both...

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  2. Young Change Maker – Babafemi Oyediran

    Name: Babafemi Oyediran Age: 27 Project: “Rural Enterprise Development Initiative (Project RED)” State Implemented: Niger State Email: [email protected] Phone: +2348068626325 The Need Many people in rural areas have and exhibit high level of creativity using different natural resources, farm products, art and crafts, yet with their enterprise and market potentials...

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  3. Young Change Maker – Erisa Danladi

    Name: Erisa Danladi Age: 29 Project: “A Breath of Fresh Air” State Implemented: Gombe Email: [email protected] Phone: +2348036064915 The Need Tabra is a community in Gombe state faced with many challenges, including the lack of toilet in the Community Maternity. Invariably if you became pressed while in the maternity, you had the option...

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  4. Young Change Maker – Olalekan Kehinde Mathew

    Name: Olalekan Kehinde Mathew Age: 26 Project: Youth Education and ICT Empowerment project. State Implemented:   Cross River State, Lagos. Email: [email protected] Phone: +2348064303374 The Need By 2006, 87% student failed WAEC/NECO annual national examinations; by 2007 it has grown to 89%, and for the first time in Nigeria 98%...

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  5. Young Change Maker – Akinyemi Lapinni

    The Need Just a few kilometres away from Damaturu the state capital of Yobe State in Northern Nigeria is located Malamatari, a small community lacking essential social services like pipe borne water, light, schools, roads, health centres among others. A real social exclusion! The Innovative Idea Response ReachOut Community was...

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  6. Young Change Maker – Deborah Ureneyunokan

    The Need The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been known for over a decade now for youth restiveness. Much of that can be attributed to the huge population of unemployed and idle youth who have potentials but lack opportunities to positively express such. The Innovative Idea Response “Youth Empowerment...

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  7. Young Change Maker – Adeola Austin Oyinlade

    The Need Many people are ignorant of their rights and responsibilities as enshrined in Nigeria’s Constitution, thus they infringe on others peoples’ rights as well as allow their own rights to be infringed on due to ignorance of the law and constitution. The Innovative Idea Response: This initiative is a...

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  8. Young Change Maker – Ndueso Young

    The Need In our world today, there is a consistent abuse of teenage girls; increased rate of teenage pregnancy; increased rate of teenage prostitution; parades of lifestyles that are not value-worthy, small thinking and increased abuse of time. These problems are highly manifest in Eket, Oil rich Akwa Ibom state...

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