At AID THE WORLD CHARITY FOUNDATION, we believe that poverty is created when economic and social systems do not keep pace with our evolving world. Especially in hard-to-reach and rural areas of our world. Clean water, access to food, a good health system, quality education, and economic opportunities are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Af
rica, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if, you live in rural areas. Rural areas are characterized by governance gaps and informality. Gender inequalities in rural areas are pervasive. If women and youths in rural areas had the same access to agriculture assets, education, and markets as others in urban, agricultural production could be increased and the number of hungry people reduced by 80%. Common challenges to unleashing the potential of rural areas include low productivity; underinvestment in agriculture, non-farm rural employment, lack of education and educational facilities; lack of adequate infrastructure; poor occupational safety, poor or no healthcare systems and working conditions; and limited or no access to services, including financial services. Additional pressures in rural economies result from conflict, natural resource depletion, and climate change. Feechukwu Kemdi Nwadikemba grew up in Egbuwa Amaukwu, a remote village in South-Eastern Nigeria who passed through the difficulties of growing up in African rural areas and was in the college when he hatched the idea to found a charitable trust to tackle these social issues in the rural areas. His vision was to close the gap in economic, educational, and health systems between urban areas and in the rural areas through a charitable trust so that the people living in rural areas would have access to good health, good education, and poverty alleviation programs. From that revolutionary idea, the AID THE WORLD CHARITY Foundation was born on Jan. 4, 2009, First, as a group of undergraduates who volunteered to offer free tutorials on selected subjects to high school students in rural and hard to reach communities. Within months, the foundation began reshaping the way community members in rural areas understand education and its importance for one another not just in those communities, but around the nation and the world…
When we saw the positive impact of our efforts, we started gathering people of like minds, and we consulted experts, learning from locals in the places where we wanted to work. We tried to figure out how we might use our voices to raise the health issues bedeviling these areas, and how we can employ our resources, energy, and time to save and transform lives. As before we came, 90% of the general populace knew nothing about how to manage some diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, pneumonia, and hepatitis. And they knew nothing about Blood Groups and these led to kids being an unfortunate carrier of SS (sickle cell anemia), dying before 5 years of age. We also expanded our work of providing basic needs to the poor, providing skill acquisition to the women and youths, food to the hungry and homeless to making sure that every child had an equal opportunity to learn, graduate, and succeed by supporting them with educational materials. The results of this unique program have been ground-breaking, improving graduation rates by an average of 72 percent across several communities. Over 66 percent of all students who graduated from high school while in our Program have gone on to post-secondary education or training. Through our outreaches in education, health, and skill acquisition, the number of children who die each year before their sixth birthday in hard-to-reach places where we have taken our campaigns to has fallen by a quarter. And out-of-school children caused by poverty have reduced by one-fifth and seniors and women are now aware of diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure which killed most of them as they didn’t know what it was and how to control it before we came. And women who can now feed their children and provide for their basic needs have increased by a quarter. Many more kids, women, and seniors are surviving just in the space of 13 years of our outreaches. That makes us optimistic. The most enduring way to fix the systems that create poverty is to ensure that economic and social rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled for all people living in rural areas. When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves: This also applies to poverty. if we can tackle poverty from rural and hard-to-reach areas we can tackle it everywhere. if poverty can be solved in rural and remote communities it will be solved indeed. At AID THE WORLD CHARITY FOUNDATION we tackle poverty from the roots. if you believe that everyone deserves equal opportunity, HELP OUR COURSE !!
