Deadline- October 1, 2012
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Imo Youth Network Programme
Letter of Inquiry
“Water, Sanitation and Hygiene For Re-inventing The Toilet Challenge”
Imo Youth Network Programme (IYNP) is a voluntary, not-for-profit and non-governmental organization. It was registered by the government in 1993 via Registration number OWZ 318. Objectives of IYNP include: promotion of health and enhanced quality of life among the citizenry. Our members are also actively involved in programs aimed at HIV/AIDS prevention and poverty eradication. Imo states is one of impoverished states in South East Nigeria. Members of Imo communities are exposed to unhygienic surroundings, unclean water and other health hazards from unsanitary environment, including lack of clean toilet facilities or ill –constructed ones. These are some of the risk factors and or after effect extreme poverty, both in the rural and urban communities in Imo.
The incidences of Malaria, TB are the resultant of stagnant water infested with mosquitos, crock chis, therefore exposing majority of the population to health risks.
Proposed Initiative: focus group discussions (FGD) Conducted by IYNP in select communities reveal that; people where well aware of the health implications of lack of potable/ clean water. We are also concerned about ill-equipped or lack of functional toilets. Therefore, people had expressed the need for restructured/ functional, cost-effective and sustainable water and sanitation systems. This will then assist in the promotion of hygienic environment and diseases free water supply.
In the vein, IYNP is proposing an initiative that will adopt, water purification strategies coupled with rain water harvest and storage especially, in rural communities/villages.
IYNP intend to address and re-event the toilet challenge. It intends to promote and improve on the “Flush Toilet” system and the latrine or pit method (where appropriate)
Detail project proposal shall be submitted for implementation in select impoverished Imo communities.
Your earliest response will be highly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Felicia A.Iheaka
Programme Director, Imo Youth Network Programme
43 Ikenegbu Ext, Opp Fire Service Police Station.
Egbu Rd, Owerri, Imo , Nigeria.
we need to know the application procedure.we are pastoralist outreach development organization(PODO).we are working in the northern part of Kenya,(ELEM I-TRIANGLE),TURKANA COUNTY.
we implement peace activities among the pastoralistic communities of Kenya,Sudan and Ethiopia.
Our main objective towards peace activities is to promote harmony and unity among the targeted groups(Turkana of Kenya,Toposa of sudan,Dassanach and Nyangatom of Ethiopia).
we wish to partner with willing agency to initiate peace projects in the place.
This grant is for us an opportunity wich will help NGOs in the world to be know.
Greetings from Chandramathie. I am the coordinator for the Social Welfare Mandram we are working for the pooe community pepole and women and Child rights. So we are very intrested for the your grant for the grass rood community development and rigts based program. we expecting submitted our project for your Organization. if give the opportunity very helpful for the poor community people.
Thanks.
Chandramathie
Greetings, I am the coordinator for sensitizers without borders in Liberia. we are interested in your grant. our organization is a grass root community child right based group and have been working with the rural communities Liberia. we soon try submitting our project as you have requested.
thanks
Claudius mehtua
Dear USIP Team,
My name is James C. Okware and I am the Executive Director of CIVOTE-International, an NGO in Uganda. CIVOTE-International is concerned with Civic and Voter Education; given Uganda’s nascent and volatile democratic environment.
Through CIVOTE activities, we intend to increase citizen’s democratic literacy in an an attempt to promote their ability to demand governance/ leadership accountability, protect citizen rights, improve citizen understanding of the concept of multiparty political dispensation and increase the political participation of marginalized groups such as women , youth, the disabled and the men and women in uniform.
Will be submitting our application soon.
Regards
Dear sir/Madam
I Francis have voluntary organization called as “CREATIVE SOCIAL WELFARE SOCIETY”
We are dedicated to serve the downtrodden poor people. Mainly we are doing our works in rural areas.
We uplift their livelihood to aware then in all aspects to provide children education to aware health provide medicines. Mainly we formation of self-help groups and Mahila groups for there sake of finical assistant we run the orphan children homes, HIV/AIDS awareness programs to provide some support to the victims . we conducting AIDs awareness camps water and sanitation monitoring water quality and surveillance ,child rehabilitation programs.
We have sufficient infrastructure facilities with our organization running the program successfully.
Hence I request you to kindly give us an opportunity to serve the poor people you also to serve the partner of this programs and we seek your financial support.
Hence we request you sir, please consider our proposal for which act of kindness, I shall ever grateful to you.
Our address
“CREATIVE SOCIAL WELFARE SOCIETY”
Door.Number :47-1-24
Lurdhu Nagar, Gunadala, Vijayawada