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General announcement
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After ten years as the CEO of Inspire Community Network Foundation, Kate Ekanem, also now known as Inyene Adiaha Nsa steps down as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer. Kate founded ICON in 2012 and has since then been a full...
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North Central: Ushafa Market Women Mobilization
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When it comes to politics, women's voices and participation are still largely missing even though electoral decisions impact their livelihood, well-being, and security. Barriers like education, language, and socio-economic status continue to influence rural women's participation in expressing their civic...
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North-West: Training Women in Technology Entrepreneurship
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While it seems like the world of technology entrepreneurship is largely dominated by men, like Bill Gate, Steve Jobs, Mark Zukerberg, and Drosey, it has become crucial to examine the education of girls in technology entrepreneurship. For this reason, an...
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Invaluable Volunteering Skills you Need
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Invaluable Volunteering Skills you need On the journey to becoming a volunteer, you must first recognize that volunteering is chiefly about organized giving; hence a few inexplicable components of volunteering are organization, giving (value and resources) and love. Below are...
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Offering Help Never Goes Out of Fashion; True or True?
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Offering Help never goes out of fashion This remains one of our latent motivations for all the lives we touch and why we are fully committed to our upheld goals. At the heart of our operations is unmatched love for...
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Healing the World
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Taking a quick drive through a typical rural Nigerian setting would quickly expose the massive inequality witnessed here in Nigeria and this is a reflection of one of the sore points of the African continent. One can argue that economic/political...
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Thinking of Volunteering? What to look for in top NGOs
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Volunteering is a classic form of giving, as you give up your time, your energy and a whole lot more. But how does one identify the right organization to pitch their volunteering tent on? What are thoes key elements that...
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3 Ways Volunteering can change your Life
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Starting off your journey as a volunteer is almost always geared towards changing another person's life or touching lives, however, how this humanitarian act of volunteering can change your life is in most cases unexpected.. Heres how;
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Raising True ICONs
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At Inspire Community Network (ICON) we focus on rural community development, advocacy for girls' education, women empowerment, youth development, and art/cultural development in all six geopolitical regions of Nigeria. We implement these interventions under the umbrella of our Framework 4...
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How can I volunteer in Nigeria?
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Thinking of volunteering in Nigeria? It's first important to understand the top challenges facing this most populous black nation that require humanitarian attention. The North-eastern part of Nigeria is facing a massive war against terrorism and banditry which has driven...
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