TAKING RENEWABLE ENERGY TO RURAL COMMUNITIES

Comunity gathering for renewable energy capacity building in a rural community.

Locally fabricated solar cooker for out door use.

Locally fabricated dryer for drying grounded casava crop locally called (garri)

Locally fabricated industrial oven,for bread bakeing,for low scale comunity dweller entrepreneur.

DCI introduces the community into local fabrication of alternative energy source.

TIME OF THE YEAR.

This time of the year is the vacation period for almost all the schools in Nigeria.

This period takes about 2months, from mid July to mid September. September is the period all schools commence.

During this vacation period volunteers engage in vacation classes. Holding extra moral classes in schools, this takes about 2hrs per day.

After the extra moral sessions they engage in research and skills development, building project frame works etc, then awaiting resumption date of schools for a better output to student.

Now this time of the year, is when Port Harcourt city in Nigeria is hit with heavy down pour of rain, being the rain forest region.

The amazing part is the august break or better called the 7days rain, this means continuous down pour of rain for 7 consecutive days.

This is strange to most of our volunteers since they have never experience such in their home countries. It’s thrilling and exciting to witness.
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This is a typical raining day at the lodge.

LIFE AS A DCI VOLUNTEER (PART TWO)

LIFE AS A DCI VOLUNTEER:

DCI builds volunteer capacity to reach out to schools, special attention and focus to rural communities schools on developmental skills.

Volunteers work from Monday to Thursday. Friday is work free day for all volunteers.
Weekend is a day for general cleaning, such as washing, grass cutting, bicycle fixing and car washing etc.










Grass cutting










Bicycle washing.

Bicycle Repair.

Replaceing a burnt cable in the change over switch.

After everyone is through with their duties, everyone sit to discuss the week activity, their encounters, achievement and challenges then brainstorm on new approaches,ways and method of impartation.

After the brainstorming session its outing time or movie time being a weekend.


SUNDAY: Volunteers attend any church/mosque of their choice, provided its close and a walking distant from the lodge .

After church service every one return back home for lunch and rest, then its socializing time .
This is a typical weekend for volunteers in DCI.

VOLUNTEERING WITH DCI

LIFE AS A DCI VOLUNTEER (Part one)


First thing first each morning, all volunteers participate in morning devotion (morning prayers) before carrying out their assign duties, such as dish washing, sweeping, cooking and general cleaning of the lodge etc.

One of the volunteer carrying out his assign duty.

These duties are carried out before shower time, and after shower time is breakfast time.
And after breakfast they all proceed to their respective place of posting to carry out their primary assignment.

DUTY POST:
Each volunteer is assign four schools per day with a lecture time of 40mins per school, four days a week, Friday is lecture free day.
For the free day, the volunteers are allowed to go and have a feel of the town/city or remain indoor resting..

Most of the schools are within the lodge, which is walking distance from the lodge. Volunteers assign to these schools normally walk to the schools, others are some distance away, which they are provided with bicycles to get to their duty post, for the schools that kilometers away they use the local transport the mini buses locally called danfoo or they use the city shuttle buses to reach their destination.

The mini local buses.

The city shuttle bus.

Dci make sure all volunteers are socially responsible to enable make a bold difference in their deliverables to humanity and soceity.

One of Dci volunteers on duty.

DCI FIVE FOCAL POINT

DCI FIVE FOCAL POINTS.

Cultural development
Entrepreneurship
Rural Ict development
Creative Art
Capacity building.

Cultural development:

All Dci volunteers are place under one room, to enable them interact with one another, shareing their day to day experiences with one another such as cultural differences, belief, tolerance and mutual love and respect for one another.

Dci volunteers are from different countries in West Africa, for those from francophone countries, Dci places them in schools, to teach French language, through teaching French as a subject they in turn build their capacity on English language and become better French language instructors.

MR KOFFI ZIKPI ALOMEY
A Togolese national. One of Dci volunteers.teaching French in a rural community school.

2. Entrepreneurship skills development:

Dci builds all the volunteers capacity on low and medium scale entrepreneurship. The training takes a three month period before they are graduated. the second part is teaching them how to convert waste to useable materials, before they are place out in schools to teach entrepreneurship in primary and secondary schools. Such waste materials are:
Candle waste wax to candle
Candle waste wax to crayon
Wood dust, used egg shell, and detergent to pot scrubbing VIM
Waste candle wax to shoe polish
Scrape pieces of soaps to liquid soap. ETC

MR GODWIN NOAH EFFIONG
From Nigeria. Teaching entrepreneurship in Glorious Child Academy Npkolu Port Harcourt.

A practical session in school, Mr. Godwin Noah Effiong showing the student how to make crayon from used candle wax..

RURAL ICT DEVELOPMENT:
In order for DCI to assist in breaching the digital divide in rural communities.DCI volunteers volunteer to train rural community youths ICT/IT in communities. Such as Microsoft productivity courses:
Microsoft word
Power point
Access
Excel

Other courses are
window publisher
Coral draw
Web designing
Graphics.

DCI also under taking specific engineering courses such as:
Computer assemblying, maintenance and repairs.
Printer repairs
GSM repair and trouble shooting.
PC networking.
Wireless networking.

DCI: rural ICT Capacity building in rural communities.

CREATIVE ART:
Here the volunteer’s teach schools their local songs, dramer and dance, secondly they also create play tools for schools from, sugar pack, empty tin milk, beverage containers, cornflacks packs ETC

Mr adougou Ajaye, from Bene republic, one of DCI volunteers on creative Art. Teaching the kids dance the beninose way.

CAPACITY BUILDING:
Specifically capacity building encompasses the over all human development.
DCI enhances the capabilities of each volunteer to meet developmental challenges, by facilitating learning, providing resources and training, self development and strengthening their skills in all areas.

Each DCI volunteer is enhance to carry out a project in his/her school of primary assignment.
They are built to carry out strategic planning, advocacy and project development in their focus areas.

More volunteers are expected to apply from West African countries such a

GHANA

BURKINAFASO

NIGER REPUBLIC

(DCI)
Development and change innovation Nig Africa, it’s a non governmental organization base in the heart of Port Harcourt Nigeria West Africa.

About Dci
Development and change innovation is non governmental organization poise for elevating, empowering and developing the less privilege through cultural development and entrepreneurship skills development, its an environment were dreams become reality to the less privilege. In West Africa.

Vision Statement

To give voice to the voiceless (the less privileged)

Mission Statement

We are poised to empower and build the capacity of the less privilege in West Africa

Our core values

Commitment to work and service to humanity.

Our volunteering programs

Cultural development
Entrepreneurship skill development
Rural ict development
Capacity building
Creative art


Target beneficiaries

Our volunteering slots are targeted at the poor, marginalize and vulnerable in rural and urban communities with preference for youths in west Africa..