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Our Work

Programs Driving Change

Seven flagship programs, drawn directly from our constitutional objectives, designed to holistically empower rural communities.

Empowerment

Women Economic Empowerment Program

Skills acquisition in tailoring, catering, soap-making, and beadwork, with micro-grants and cooperative formation to sustain livelihoods.

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Education

Back-to-School & Scholarship Scheme

Scholarships, learning materials, and school infrastructure support for indigent pupils in rural Benue communities.

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Healthcare

Maternal & Child Health Initiative

Antenatal care support, immunization drives, nutrition education, and community health worker training.

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Advocacy

End Harmful Practices Campaign

Community dialogues, sensitization campaigns, and rights-based education to end child marriage, GBV, and inheritance denial.

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Leadership

Women & Youth Leadership Academy

Capacity-building workshops on civic participation, governance, public speaking, and project management.

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Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security

Training in climate-smart agriculture, access to improved seedlings, and farmer cooperatives for rural women.

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Capacity Building

Community Capacity Building Initiative

Cross-cutting skill-building in entrepreneurship, agriculture, and health so communities can sustain their own progress.

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Program Details

How Each Program Works

Women Economic Empowerment Program
Rural women and adolescent girls are trained in market-ready trades — tailoring, catering, soap-making, and beadwork — then supported with start-up micro-grants and grouped into savings cooperatives so their income keeps growing after training ends.
Back-to-School & Scholarship Scheme
We identify brilliant but underprivileged pupils in rural primary and secondary schools and provide full-term scholarships, learning materials, and support for basic school infrastructure so that no child is kept out of a classroom by cost.
Maternal & Child Health Initiative
Working alongside community health workers, this program supports antenatal care, organizes immunization drives, teaches household nutrition, and trains local health volunteers who can respond long after a program visit ends.
End Harmful Practices Campaign
Through community dialogues with traditional and religious leaders, sensitization campaigns, and rights-based education for young people, this campaign challenges early marriage, gender-based violence, and the denial of inheritance rights to women and girls.
Women & Youth Leadership Academy
A workshop series that equips women and young people with the practical skills of leadership — civic participation, local governance, public speaking, and project management — so they can take up seats at the tables where decisions about their communities are made.
Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security
Rural women farmers are trained in climate-smart agricultural techniques, connected to improved seedlings, and organized into cooperatives that strengthen bargaining power and food security for their households and communities.
Community Capacity Building Initiative
A cross-cutting initiative that layers entrepreneurship, agricultural, and health skill-building on top of our other programs, so that the women, adolescents, and communities we work with are equipped to sustain and extend progress on their own.

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Your support enables RICWEI to expand these life-changing programs across rural Nigeria.