ABOUT SOCIAL WELFARE FOR THE LESS PRIVILEGED INITIATIVE
Social welfare for the less privilege initiative (SWI), started as an initiative of Center for Community Development (CCD), support for the elderly, widows and orphans, in the first quarter, after the successful pilot, the program began expanding its wings in Germany. Owing to the gradual expansion in the scale of operation SWI has trustees, who meet periodically to discuss the issues and the way forward for the Foundation. Social welfare Initiative with its head office is located in Auchi, Edo state, Nigeria, and is intended to extend to hamlets, major cities and states in Nigeria, the total population of which the project intends to cover are well in the excess of 7 million rural people, in the first phase; with plans to extend further in subsequent phases. The advisory board presently have over 8 members from various backgrounds and different fields of life.
OUR SERVICES
CARE FOR THE ELDERLY
The elders, who constitute about 3.4 per cent of Nigeria’s population, according to the 2006 population census, are left at the mercies of their children and relations. Project Social welfare
ORPHANS
In our communities orphans have no kin to rely on, Project SWI’s spontaneous intervention is crucial as it will prevent high school drop-out rates, Poverty and educational deprivation are closely linked,
WIDOWS EMPOWERMENT
Women’s Empowerment educates and empowers women, who are homeless, with the skills and confidence necessary to secure a job, create a healthy lifestyle and regain a home for themselves
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