RE-ORIENTATION ADVOCATES OF NIGERIA (RAN)
Re-orientation Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria, otherwise known as Re-Orientation Advocates of Nigeria (RAN) is a registered Non-for-profit organization, founded in 2013 on the imperative of value and socio-cultural revitalization. The organization premises much of its agenda on value re-orientation, vocational and entrepreneurship trainings for youth and women.
RE-ORIENTATION ADVOCATES OF NIGERIA (RAN)
Re-orientation Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria, otherwise known as Re-Orientation Advocates of Nigeria (RAN) is a registered Non-for-profit organization, founded in 2013 on the imperative of value and socio-cultural revitalization. The organization premises much of its agenda on value re-orientation, vocational and entrepreneurship trainings for youth and women.
Our VMF
Vision, Mission and Focus
Our Mission
To rebuild the mindset of the young people and reshape their character for morale of thoughts, interests and actions. And to empower the youths and women with life building skills, vocational and entrepreneurship knowledge.
Our Vision
To achieve an inclusive and sustainable society where the creative thinking, innovative concept and skills of the youth and women are sharpened and galvanized for the economy and political development.
Our Strategic Focus
Education
Value Re-Orientation
Rehabilitation
De-radicalization
WHAT WE DO
OUR WORK
RAN YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER
NATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT ON JOB CREATION
WAY FORWARD DIALOGUE
CITIZEN EDUCATION AND REORIENTATION PROGRAMME
NATIONAL YOUTH REFORM CONFERENCE
SCHOOL OF POLITICS
NATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT ON PEACE & SECURITY
“I SIGN FOR PEACE” PROJECT
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CURRENT PROGRAMMES
YOUNG FARMERS CLUB
In a bid to address the various challenges preventing young people from practicing agriculture and agro-businesses smoothly in Nigeria, our organization launched the YOUNG FARMERS CLUB. The clubs are formed in clusters at the various communities to educate young people about agriculture, promote innovations and facilitate necessary incentives needed to encourage them to invest their time, energy and resources in agriculture, thereby increasing food production and reducing poverty and unemployment.
THE BRIEF
The International Trade Administration of America published in 2020 that Nigeria spends approximately $22 billion annually on food imports. This amount, if invested in domestic agriculture, would reduce Nigeria’s unemployment and poverty rate by half.
Commodities like rice, fish, maize, fish, palm oil, pork, beef and poultry produced locally are grossly insufficient to meet domestic demand in Nigeria, hence the imports.
The World Bank states that 80% of the world’s rural poor earn a living through farming, and the sector employs half the rural population of the entire continent of Africa. Most smallholder farmers live in poverty, operating crop and livestock farms that aren’t as productive as they could be and missing out on critical opportunities to contribute to their larger food systems.
In Nigeria, Agriculture that used to be a major occupation of many young and old people across the states decades ago has now been left for older people in the rural areas. It’s a growing concern that young people are not showing enough interest in agriculture.
Some of the reasons discovered to be responsible for their disinterest includes; outdated farming practices, limited access to modern farm tools, limited access to technology, lack of storage facilities, limited access to profitable markets, pest, climate change and recently insecurity.
It is now common for young people in Nigeria to abandon arable lands in their various communities and relocate to urban communities to struggle for limited job opportunities. Whereas in many other developing countries, young people live in agro-ecological area to grow food, work on the value chains and lift many people out of poverty.
A new report on the role of youth in agriculture from Heifer International, which includes input from nearly 30,000 young Africans and hundreds of farmers and farm organizations in Africa, identifies additional challenges preventing youth from fully engaging in farming, most notably lack of financing, land, markets and training.
Young Farmers Club is a platform created to addressing the above challenges and make farming easy for the Nigerian youth and women.
Young Farmers club
DRUG PREVENTION, TREATMENT AND CARE
The issue of drug abuse has become a menace in Nigeria beyond available statistics. The issue is the foundation for crimes, unemployment, economic sabotage, spread of diseases and many social vices in the country. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has recently upscale activities and strategies towards cubing the menace. However, the situation demands efforts of all stakeholders in the public and private sectors.
THE BRIEF
Outcome of epidemiology studies on drug abuse in Nigeria shows that the level of drug abuse in Nigeria is still high despite laws, policies and strategies put in place by Government.
Therefore, they recommended that communities, Schools and religious body should take a lead role in educating their members. And also identify the sources of drugs, reason and risk factors.
Consequently, Our organisation (the Re-Orientation Advocacy Foundation of Nigeria) is partnering with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and other stakeholders to train and inaugurate advocates on drug prevention, treatment and care across schools and religious centers in Nigeria.
Over one hundred thousand (100,000) advocates would be trained and inaugurated across the country in the first phase of the project to reach ten million (10,000,000) members of their community and at least one million drug users.
Drug abuse Volunteer
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