FLEP’s Agricultural Empowerment and Capacity Improvement (AGECI) program has expanded to Ichama community, OKpokwu Local Government in Benue state, training 200 registered participants in: Agricultural experts within the Benue axis delivered the three-day training in Ichama local dialect (Idoma language), ensuring interactive and practical sessions. Participants gained valuable knowledge and appreciated the program’s content. 50 participants within the ages of […]
Meet Sule Ayodeji, a participant in the OAK 2 Livestock & Entrepreneurship training program in Gedegede, Ikare, Ondo State. Little did he know that this experience would inspire him on a new found entrepreneurial journey. During the entrepreneurship class section, a particular concept caught his attention—The Lean Startup Approach. This is a business startup concept that teaches the need to […]
Project Period: July 2020 to June 2021 The training and distribution of birds and feed to participants held on the 31st October to 3rd November, 2020 The Transformed Livelihood Project (TLP3) is a 3 in 1 project that is aimed at empowering 40 youths to build and sustain livelihoods that will enable them to earn income, support their families and […]
The Livestock Empowerment Model (LEM) is an initiative of Full Life Empowerment Programme (FLEP), in partnership with Children’s Mission Africa, Children’s Mission Sweden, and The Navigators Nigeria. The program which started since July 2019 has empowered over 40 youths in Akure and its environs with skills in Poultry Farming. The participants of the LEM project successfully undertook capacity building training […]
Many mothers in Benue communities are known to work and provide for the family, the work can be dangerous as a result of insecurities encountered on their way to farms and even on the farm – these women barely make enough to feed their family. Katherine is a mother of three children who lives in Adatsav village in Benue state […]
The goat rearing project is one of the ways FLEP’s Transforming Livelihood Project (TLP) is working to alleviate poverty and to diversify the livelihood of widows in Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi state. The project through the three-goats-one-woman approach is empowering widowed women. The primary objective of the goat rearing project is to improve the welfare of these women by generating income […]
Over the years in Nigeria rural women have established defined roles in agriculture; they are involved in agricultural production, process and utilization. They are affected by social-economic factors that hinder the advancement of agriculture and poverty alleviation; these factors include education, access to social infrastructures, and daily income. Lack of specific policies that do not support and protect the rural […]