Economic Growth Nigeria Project #17670

Literacy Training to Transform Lives

by Leadership Initiatives

Project Report | Mar 3, 2017
Literacy For Orphans To Transform Lives

By Mohammed Auwal Yakubu | Assistant Director of Business Program - Nigeria

Nam and his team

Dear LI Donors Dedicated To Creating A Brighter World,

I am excited to inform you of two US high school teams working to provide new English training for Orphans our business owners are caring for.

The first group we would like to highlight are Bella and Anna are who have been primarily working with our Nigerian partner, Umar, on creating a children's book for the orphans.

From the students themselves

The book aims to teach the children the alphabet, basic numbers, basic colors and basic shapes. It is equipped with the English and Hausa translation of each color, shape, etc. along with the pronunciation of each English word that the children are trying to learn. The book uses pictures to help the children understand what each page is trying to convey.

Finding pictures was originally challenging seeing as we were using images of commonly found things in America, not really focussing on what was common in Nigeria. For example, we put a picture of an octopus for the "O" page, but Umar advised us to put a picture of an onion instead to make the picture more relatable to the orphans.

With the help of Marshall and Umar we were able to successfully create a very simple, child-friendly resource for the orphanage to use to teach the orphans. The book is being printed and laminated by Umar right now!

The next group lead by Nam are creating an online learning program to use sounds, animation and more to teach English to Orphans who are in the Bauchi area that can come to the LI office three days a week for literacy training.

These lessons are designed by both the students and Umar and are continually updated by the orphans, the students and Umar himself and is now being used by both the orphans and their caretakers to teach both parties English at the same time.

Attached in the report is a link to the online site we are using to teach the Orphans and we encourage you to view it!

Once again thank you for your support it is more than we could have ever hoped for.

Wishing you a wonderful spring from the entire LI family

Team creating alphabet website

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Dec 6, 2016
Local Lives Impacted Through Literacy Training

By Austin Kunde | Assistant Director of Special Projects

Dear Amazing Leadership Initiatives and Respective Donors,

Because of your generous donation, you have made it possible for us to begin to break down the language barrier and communicate with our business leaders in Nigeria. In Nigeria, they do not speak English, but Hausa. Although much progress is being made, Nigerian business owners have had problems expanding to new neighborhoods due to the language barrier. Our goal is to completely break this down.

Because all business transactions are done in English, business owners that do not speak the language cannot expand. This problem is mostly prevalent in the youth population of Nigeria. Therefore, this project will directly address youth literacy training to gain employment or better support their business sponsor.

To address this, Leadership Initiatives will train 15 young business owners with basic English and language skills over the next year. Not only does this effect 15 young business owners, but through the use of business cards, effects upwards of 100 people. This will allow many more people to gain access to employment and encourage other youth to come to Leadership Initiatives for both literacy and job training. Our goal is to educate young leaders of the country so that one day they can transform their own country for the better.

While teaching business owners literacy skills, we are also offering literacy training to orphans and those who take care orphans. Recently, our IBAP team has developed a booklet to help both business owners and orphans learn the alphabet. From A-Z, there is a page for every letter including, the letter in both upper and lower cases, a word that begins with the given letter, a picture and pronunciation of the word, and the translated word in Huasa, their native language.

Without your generosity, this would not be possible. You have allowed us an opportunity to continue our efforts and develop independent profit-generating businesses that serve as models for growth in surrounding communities.

Director of Operations Marshall Bailly stated,

"Project beneficiaries fill voids in the local economy while improving their families' health, education and financial stability. Previous leaders have sent their brothers, sisters and children to school, helped invest in new businesses within the community, offered new services to community members such as the disabled, establishing infrastructure for the future growth of Nigeria.

Leadership Initiatives will be regularly providing updates and insight into these projects as the month's progress through Global Giving’s reporting program. Of course, at any time you can request a project update to learn up to date info on how this project is progressing.

As a supporter of "Literacy in Nigeria”, Leadership Initiatives would love to have you involved if you ever want to help grow our programs, learn of ways you can participate or have new ideas on how to develop our programs please contact me at mbailly@leadershipinitiatives.org. Your hard work and intelligence is the greatest gift we could receive as we attempt to create a better world.

Thank you once again from the bottom of everyone's heart here at Leadership Initiatives. If you would ever like to speak to our staff on the ground, a project leader, one of our Business Alliance student participants, we would love to set up a Skype chat for you, so you can personally see the change you are creating."

Wishing you the best!

Sincerely,

Austin

Assistant Director of Special Projects

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Sep 6, 2016
Local Lives Transformed Through Literacy!

By Austin Kunde and Marshall Bailly | Local Lives Transformed Through Literacy!

Dear Amazing Leadership Initiatives amd Respective Donors,

Because of your generous donation, you have made it possible for us to begin to break down the language barrier and communicate with our business leaders in Nigeria. In Nigeria, they do not speak English, but Hausa. Although much progress is being made, Nigerian business owners have had problems expanding to new neighbordhoods due to the language barrier. Our goal is to completely break this down.

Because all business transactions are done in English, business owners that do not speak the language can not expand. This problem is mostly prevelant in the youth population of Nigeria. Therfore, this project will directly address youth literacy training to gain employment or better support their business sponser.

To address this, Leadership Initiatives will train 15 young business owners with basic English and launguage skills over the next year. Not only does this effect 15 young business owners, but through the use of business cards, effects upwards of 100 people. This will allow many more people to gain access to employment and encourage other youth to come to Leadership Initiatives for both literacy and job training. Our goal is to educate young leaders of the country so that one day they can transform their own country for the better.

In recent years, we have been able to hire two new translators to assisnt in tearing down the language barrier. Their names are Rashida and Martin. They help business leaders who do not speak English communicate to potential customers since most all transactions are done in English.

Without your generousity, this would not be possible. You have allowed us an opportunity to continue our efforts and develop independent profit-generating businesses that serve as models for growth in surrounding communities.

Director of Operations Marshall Bailly stated,

Leadership Initiatives will be regularly providing updates and insight into these projects as the month's progress through GlobalGiving's reporting program. Of course, at any time you can request a project
update to learn up to date info on how this project is progressing.

As a supporter of "Literacy in Nigeria",Leadership Initiatives would love to have you involved if you ever want to help grow our programs, learn of ways you can participate or have new ideas on how to develop our programs please contact me at mbailly@leadershipinitiatives.org. Your hard work and intelligence is the greatest gift we could receive as we attempt to create a better world.

Wishing you the best!

Sincerely,

Austin

Assistant Director of Special Projects

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